… is a beautiful place!
A month is a strange time period…it leaves you nowhere, actually! Or at least, that’s what it does to me! I am too familiar to the place to be a tourist and not there long enough to be a resident. Wherever I go, I need to know the place, by heart. I want to know […]
Read More A love story cut short!” Life is a balance between holding on and letting go”. – Rumi Pictures, they say, speak louder than words! And perhaps they really do! Each one of these has a story attached to them – a human touch, a friendly gesture, a warm hug, a genuine concern! This is a “P’log” if there is […]
Read More Dhakriat Saeida (Arabic for Happy Memories)The harsh sound of the alarm wakes me up from sleep on the huge white bed wrapped in a blanket… it is around 6:30 in the morning and I wake up without Rhiju sleeping next to me. Through the blinds, I can figure out it is still dark outside, but I have come to know […]
Read More This time last year…To continue the Zakaria Street Ramzaan walk… So…where were we? Oh yes, we did reach Zakaria (Jacquaria, as it was originally called) Street. Now, this stretch of road connecting Chittaranjan Avenue and Chitpore Road is one of the busiest roads in the city. To be very honest, as I had mentioned in my last post, […]
Read More Iftaar in and around Zakaria Street Part IIAlert: This is a very, very, very late post, considering the Ramzaan month ended at the beginning of June! But Ramzaan or no Ramzaan, I am a foodie and all it took to take me back in time, were a few pictures I had saved on my laptop and in a flash, I could taste […]
Read More Iftaar in and around Zakaria Street Part INahoum’s! Does that ring a bell? Well, for confectionary lovers, it is bound to…for the nostalgic Kolkatan, it is bound to! I mean, who has not tasted something, anything from Nahoum’s at least once in their life, and still calls oneself a true blue Kolkatan? Ok, hang on, if you think this post is about […]
Read More In search of a lost world…“এ কলকাতার মধ্যে আছে আরেকটা কলকাতা … হেঁটে দেখতে শিখুন” – শঙ্খ ঘোষ While the rest of the poem written by eminent Bengali poet Sankha Ghosh narrates a very different tale, this line, in isolation captures the very essence of the city as it implies ‘There is yet another Kolkata within the one that is […]
Read More The many shades of BowbazarMy son has a crush! Like a serious-serious one! So, he is 9 and a half and this lady in question is 10 and quite a charming girl. And this entire romantic episode (one-sided, from what I gather) blossomed over the last couple of years through on and off meetings. Well, she is a family […]
Read More Diary of an exasperated mother – Part 4Back in end June when we finally received the names of our host organizations for our CSC program scheduled in Cape Town for a month across August and September, I had no idea that Woodstock Exchange was going to remain etched in my mind for good. All that we knew was that it was somewhere […]
Read More Working from Woodstock ExchangeIt’s that time of the year all over again! It hardly matters that the heat is driving people insane…we Kolkatans do not fear the heat anymore. Can it be a deterrent strong enough to dampen our indomitable spirit and love for this mega annual event? Ask any Kolkata and the response will be a resounding […]
Read More That time of the year…