by Sravasti | Jun 15, 2020 | Art & Culture, Sravasti's Blog
The taxi driver was excited to know that we were Indian tourists! He phoned his mother from the car to tell her that he had Indian passengers! She welcomed us, excitedly. That was something new to us. Indian tourists are not always liked in most countries. So, I was...
by Sravasti | May 30, 2020 | Social Trends, Sravasti's Blog
While we were still reeling under the Corona storm, the Amphan Super Cyclone lashed out in Bengal and Orissa, to deal a harder blow on May 20th. Is it just coincidence or workings of some numerology that the year 2020 is playing Twenty-20 with us? We have to wash...
by Shinjini Mitra | May 22, 2020 | Guest Blog, Social Trends
Every day, the newspapers and news channels are full of news about disasters. Both natural and man-made. But that’s all they are – news. They do not affect us directly…until they do. Through the news, I’ve witnessed the 1999 super cyclone in Odisha, the...
by Sravasti | May 22, 2020 | Social Trends, Sravasti's Blog
Simla House. 85A Amherst Street, Kolkata. Now…Raja Ram Mohan Sarani. A decrepit mansion. Very few walls remained of the upper floors of the colonial Georgian style architecture. Creepers and banyan trees had taken over most of what remained. We went past it quite...
by Swati Mitra | May 18, 2020 | Art & Culture, Guest Blog, Social Trends
We had gone to visit my aunt one evening, and there was Meshomoshai, my uncle, sitting in his room and making a pencil sketch of a bald old man, with the most strikingly large pair of eyes which seemed to be looking straight at me…or right through me…! I don’t know...
