Purulia trip in Square frames
Purulia trip: After the Meghalaya trip full of trek and caving, my next trip was lazying around Ajodhya hills of the Purulia district of Bengal. While Meghalaya was a crazy place, the friends, I went [Read more...]
Culture
Diwali with Missionaries of Charity and Flying Lanterns.
I wish you all a very happy festive season. Warm greetings on this auspicious occasion of Mahavir Nirvan Diwas, Kali Pujo, Naraka Chaturdashi and what is popularly known as [Read more...]
Meghalaya: Color-ob
What did it feel like? It felt like a cacophony of colours, colours everywhere.. the lush green fields, the darker green of the forest.. the wild red berries, the kids and their enthusiasm. The sky [Read more...]
The newer world of mobile phone photography and instagram.
Mobile phone photography is not really new. A lot of people have been doing it since long back. I remember, back in 2007, when DSLRs were not much of a craze, my friends used mobile phone cameras to [Read more...]
মহালয়া এবং আরও কিছু ছবি
I avoid crowded places, given my weak health now. But I had to give in to the demands of Saimantick. Sayan too joined in and we left for the ghats at 3:30 AM on Mahalaya. I never thought the day would [Read more...]
What does Happiness mean to you?
A proper definition of happiness remains as ever, elusive. There has been scholars and thinkers who have spent ages wondering what it could mean. I asked the same question to my friends yesterday on [Read more...]
Murshidabad: Hazar duari and around.
One of the chief attractions in Murshidabad is the Hazarduari complex. I would not write about the history of the Hazarduari palace as my knowledge is particularly limited to the Wikipedia [Read more...]
Murshidabad : In search of Bauls (Part 2)
Part 2: A day with Baban Das Baul. “Who was the first man on earth?", asked Baban Das Baul. After a moment of silence, I said, “Manu?”. Ramasish rubbished the idea and said, “It is Adam and [Read more...]
Murshidabad : In search of Bauls (Part 1)
Part 1: Bauls: Spirituality over religion. I set myself out to Murshidabad, after the tiresome Friday in office, in search of the Bauls and the Fakirs. Before I write about my experience there, I [Read more...]
Kolkata – a Love story .
You flow effortlessly into the remainder of my nostalgia; a life of stamps on postcards, of sophisticated salons and bittersweet before-dinner drinks; of operas and foreign languages and relics from [Read more...]