Through the hills and forests of North Bengal part 2

NOTE: THIS IS FOR ALL THOSE WHO WANTED BUT COULD NOT READ MY RECENT BENGALI POSTS. THESE WILL ALSO COME IN THE SAME ORDER. Although the term “offbeat destination” has become really fashionable these days, for simple, travel-loving Bengalis like us it means a quaint, sequestered homely shelter that offers a view of the mighty […]

The ultimate surrender…

There is sorrow and then there is death,And then there are the burning pains of separation…Yet, there reigns peace, and an everlasting joy as infinity prevails beyond all! Yet, life flows like an endless stream,The sun, the moon and the stars brighten our worldAnd spring fills the bowers with its enchanting hues… Yet, waves rise […]

The yellow tinted window and the world within it…

I am not someone who is overly possessive about having things within my control, but for a few things that fall within my jurisdiction, I prefer to do them myself without any interference. That, fortunately, leaves a number of people around me pretty happy with time to spare for other pursuits. And there is this […]

Story of the Government House – How it all started

“… he made himself beloved by both the subject many and by the dominant few’ and ‘enjoyed among the natives a popularity… such as no other governor has been able to attain’… I could still hear ‘nurses sing children to sleep with a jingling ballad about the fleet horses and richly caparisoned elephants of Sahib […]

Writings on the wall…

Yet another month of lockdown and yet another post! In fact, this comes in a little later than I thought I would be able to manage… too many things happening and too little time in hand! After my last post on walls, which was unexpectedly well accepted by the handful of readers that I have, […]

Panchi chala uss desh ko…

No, this is not one more post on Sushant Singh Rajput or how brilliant he was and how he was victimized by Bollywood biggies or a hate post on known names. Neither is it a passionate post on how it could be a murder that is being branded as suicide and how it is all […]

Tagore – Through the eyes of Gulzar Part I

I have always been known to be a Robi Thakur loyalist. In fact, to me he is more of a friend I can talk to anytime (Yes, I do that pretty often, even though it might appear a little odd to the uninitiated!). To me he’s a friend, who thinks like me and knows exactly […]

Mobile Detox c/o Umphun Times

Over the last week or so following Amphan or Umphun, or whatever that devastation was pronounced as, my phone network first, followed by my internet provider and then finally my mobile phone, or rather the lack of it has helped me reach a few conclusions (and this has nothing to do with the Covid 19 […]

Walls…

Locked down within the comforts of my home, with a network, electricity and a laptop (yes, I am shamefully privileged) for the last 3 months almost, I often just end up reading random blogs and looking at interesting pictures. Recently some very interesting pictorial blogs caught my attention. Since then, it has been on my […]

Covid-19 situation and us!

Ok, let’s face it – this situation – “Covid-19 situation” they call it at my workplace, is something we (including a couple of generations ahead of us, at least) have never experienced or been in. It took us the first few months to realize its diabolical potential and when we finally did, well, it gave […]