MASAI

17 Jul 201817 Jul 2018

MASAI To continue with my African Safari, this time I will talk about the dominant species, in most aggressive ape i.e. the homo sapiens.  I will talk about the fascinating…

Karibu…. Welcome to Africa

25 Jun 201825 Jun 2018

JAMBO ………  Welcome to the endless grasslands   Serengeti, a Masai word meaning endless grasslands, was a place that had called out to me since childhood and having seen the…

Touching lives

2 May 20182 May 2018

Touching Lives   One of the greatest pleasures of a writer is feedback from readers. Any feedback is welcome, as we know we are being read, and praise is an…

Adieu

25 Apr 2018

This was a farewell note to my colleagues in my erstwhile organisation, when I moved to a rival company on promotion, as is routine at senior levels among Public sector…

Cooped up in Kodaikanal

19 Apr 201819 Apr 2018

Cooped up in Kodaikanal   I had been telling the story of our backpacking trip in the South of India in my previous story     https://soumyamukherjee8.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/mapless-in-madras/   As promised, here…

Mapless in Madras

10 Apr 201810 Apr 2018

Mapless in Madras Years ago, my wife and I, unencumbered and impoverished young couple then, had decided to backpack across South India. I had backpacked around North India earlier in…

A MAZING EXPERIENCE

26 Mar 201810 Apr 2018

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Coming up for air

22 Nov 201722 Nov 2017

Coming up for air   “Babuder jamai eiche, keot paray khobor de!” the bosses son in law is here, inform the fishermen’s village’ the cries rang out, as our white…

Ghost story

7 Oct 2017

GHOST STORY Since my teenage days I had been fascinated by the idea of ghosts. From Doyle to Poe to more popular contemporary writers in English and Saradindu and Ray…

Round is a shape

24 Jul 201724 Jul 2017

Round is a shape I love workouts. I enjoy watching people sweating it out on treadmills, huffing and puffing on myriad contraptions, pumping iron, rowing on solid ground, and doing…