food… Cambodian cameo 18 Mar 202318 Mar 2023 Cambodia is really exotic and quaint. Very picturesque and touristy. Poor too. Food beats Vietnamese hollow. Very few people. Airport felt like some remote railway station. Only western tourists. Asians…
adventure… Vignettes of Vietnam 24 Dec 20223 Jan 2023 Vignettes of Vietnam Hanoi just like Delhi. The hotel is like a typical one in Karol bag. The area is just like Karol bag The countryside looks exactly like Assam…
cities… The gatekeeper poet 16 Nov 202222 Nov 2022 The gatekeeper poet We were exploring a lesser known part of our country, Upper Assam, and trying to understand a little known part of our history, the Ahom dynasty that…
ART… Antique 5 Jun 202211 Jun 2022 The oldest living antique at home is me, some six decades, and the oldest once living, some fossils surreptitiously collected from Akal, Jaisalmer, some six million, but it hasn’t been…
adventure… A wrinkle in time 1 Apr 20221 Apr 2022 A wrinkle in the space time continuam As you are aware, space time can be imagined as a sheet stretched tight, with denser bodies like stars are objects resting on…
ART… Film reviewer.. Kashmir files 26 Mar 20223 Apr 2022 Just saw Kashmir files. Extremely disturbing. I think everyone should see it. The most important line was about learning from the jews, not to let people forget the holocaust so…
book review… The last queen.. a review 15 Feb 202228 Feb 2022 Jane Austen elevated the chic lit to the level of fine art and canonical literature, and Dalrymple is doing this to historical semi fiction. Chitra Banerjee has done both here…
book review… Perks of writing 23 Jan 202225 Jan 2022 Perks of writing The biggest Perks of writing is the appreciation and love for the writing and the writer expressed by the reader, and sometimes this is reflected in material…
education… Manusmriti 10 Jun 202110 Jun 2021 Manusmriti I have often been called names which irritated, amused or sometimes hurt me, but mostly I preferred to ignore, unless I could think of a quick retort or could…
BENGALI… The Bard and I 22 Apr 202122 Apr 2021 Bard blues My first encounter with the Bard was in a children’s book called lamb tales from Shakespeare, and I thought that he was pretty lame and not a patch…
Idyll Dreams of an Idle Fellow 