adventure… Guest post by a brilliant young doctor punster poet and writer, Dr Priyamita Ghosh 25 Jul 202125 Jul 2021 FIRST IMPRESSION I was in my fourth year of college. The semester exams were over and Durga Puja was just round the corner. My friend/batchmate Anwesha had invited some of…
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… What’s in a name 19 Apr 20212 Jun 2021 What is in a name? Call a rose by any other name, it will smell as sweet Well, the bard says so, and we applaud. But is he right? My…
cities… Street cries 2 Apr 20212 Apr 2021 Street criesSince lockdown had started, the part of Delhi I was staying in, Jorbagh, an already extremely quiet neighborhood , became practically silent, and I could hear a great deal…
childhood… Reading 11 Jan 202111 Jan 2021 READING We had left Boy, struggling to make sentences, lost in the labyrinth of the Queens tongue, and suddenly in the last chapter he is hunting through the classics for…
adventure… Kolkata calling 1 Dec 20201 Dec 2020 Kolkata The news created a sensation around their little neighbourhood. Boy’s family was shifting to Kolkata. It was the dream city for the kids around. Boy didn’t see what the…
adventure… Going to school 12 Nov 202012 Nov 2020 Going to schoolBoy was taken one day to a strange building by his parents and after some bewildering conversation with a man in a funny white gown, was fussed over…
BENGALI… Play date 13 Oct 20205 Nov 2020 Play date We go back to the boy’s childhood. But Wait, it looks rather weird calling him the boy. This was what the burra sahibs condescendingly called waiters in restaurants…
adventure… Woodstock 9 Aug 20209 Aug 2020 Woodstock Urban Indians of our generation gave grown up glamourising the American iconic music festival of the sixties ,Woodstock as the symbol of freedom rebellion Bohemianism and art along…
