adventure… 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…
adventure… 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…
Fiction… 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…
Fiction… 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…
humor… Opposite lines 15 May 201715 May 2017 A poem with alternate lines being romantic and the reverse For you my darling I'd go anywhere As long as you pay my business class fare For you my sweet…
Fiction… I Forget….. 14 May 201714 May 2017 I forget... Being absentminded is the privilege of the genius. We hear stories of the ridiculous stupidity and feeble mindedness in everyday matters by such greats as Einstein and Newton…
BLOGGING… A Weekly humour coloumn 22 Mar 201722 Mar 2017 #humour #KitchenFisasco #BachelorsLife #WhyPigsHaveWings #DifferentTruths Here’s an interesting account by Soumya, a humourist, on cooking. We are introducing his humour column, beginning this week, on Tuesdays, exclusively on Different Truths.…
education… The initiation 18 Dec 2016 The Initiation He was an eager young rookie, in his early twenties, barely out of college, finding his way around the maze of the public sector corporate world. He was…
BLOGGING… The Return of Gussie Fink nottle 12 Dec 2016 Return of Gussie Fink Nottle Some of you may have my earlier adventures in Gussie’s avatar when I gave out the prizes in a village school we had adopted as…
economy… The Modified effect Schadenfreude 16 Nov 201616 Nov 2016 Modified Impact Schadenfreude Like everything else our action hero or super villain (depending on the colour of your ideology) prime minister does, this midnight surgical strike against black money by…
