A Shoreditch tale
I had no intention of meeting the Bard in London (or anywhere else). Ever since that first...
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Category: Travel
Tea and me
In December, 2023, I returned to Assam after 44 years. I grew up in this beautiful state in the...
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Have you seen the Koh-i-Noor?
Again a clamour for its return starts. And now I am older, even if not wiser, and I must see it’s...
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Desert ahead
Have you ever felt sand slip away through your fingers? As though it had a will of its own? As...
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From Murshidabad
Four hours and a bit through a city that spelt wealth and power just a couple of centuries ago....
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There goes the sun
A Facebook post on the well-known Juhu Beach in Mumbai. A couple of minutes of the beach and its...
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That famous battlefield… Plassey
Polashir Juddho. The Battle of Plassey. Was there ever a time I didn’t know those words?...
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the boats call you
the boats call you the waters float your thoughts the market sucks you in the potholes plan murder...
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On the way to Manali
Trekkers’ paradise, Manali, but I’m no trekker. I just wanted to go to the mountains,...
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Ten days in Istanbul
Covid was beginning to wane, travel started tentatively. I’d been marooned far away from...
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At Belem Tower
A post on Facebook a few months after coming back from my first trip to Portugal....
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A walk around Kew Gardens
Stranded in India, then the UK, during Covid, mind in uncharted territory, I found myself in Kew...
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