A wave of nostalgia induced by this post, led to an youtube-hunting session with a desire to revisit what is possibly one of the most memorable - not to mention comic - scences ever created in the history of Indian cinema :the meeting of Jatayu with Feluda and Topse on a train while it stops [...]
…..when I went home recently after a gap of 3+ years did not involve the burgeoning number of new shopping malls, or the new fly-overs, or the sudden new-fangled fad for Mehendi (Gariahata crossing was chock-full of Mehendi-wallahs adorning nubile arms), or even the (as Dipanjan had warned) inflated value of the rupee [...]
Back in Australia where the lack of constant noise is deafening, but the cooler temperatures - not to mention the absence of humidity - of winter about to set in, is quite welcome.
We had a sensation of returning ‘home’ as we walked into the apartment, which is weird considering we were coming back from a [...]
On the way to Calcutta/Kolkata …..a city chock full of emotions, brimming with memories and in my semi-nomadic existence, perhaps one true place to call home.
Last time in the city was three years back - a quick, extremely hectic 7-day trip. The trip before that was after a 3-year break as well. Was bit of [...]
This has made my morning, day and possibly the entire two days left before we fly off to Kolkata.
Via J. A. P., a Bong vents his feelings on ……who else, Sourav Ganguly (and his removal from the team two years ago).
BONGULY (its not in Bong, so everyone can enjoy).
[is there any way to d/l from [...]
Speechless, we simply sit and shake our head in dismay:
(more on the Knight Riders here)
The comments section at the Youtube host site provides a good competition for Rediff. Enjoy gems such as:
This ad-vid is awesome!!! Ignoring the stupid commentaries that underestimate our king, I hope that to these boys all turns into gold. Is so [...]
I am positively excited; brimming - nay, overflowing - with anticipation and gutted by the intolerably long wait. I am figuratively salivating …………
……..because, ladies and gents, the greatest thing to happen to my old, beloved city since Parnab started gracing the quiz circuits, is here:
Yes ……. the Kinght Riders are coming - no nothing [...]
Another year, another Durga Pujo not spent in Kolkata. But the memories, they linger….
This is what I wrote last year, and not much has changed:
It is as inevitable as the tradition that inspires it - feeling pangs of nostalgia while Kolkata1 gears up to welcome Maa Durga and her four children - Karthik, Ganesh, Lakshmi [...]
I never got into the Harry Potter craze and always felt the media frenzy surrounding the books and movies was utterly over-hyped. And this news isn’t going to make a convert out of me - if anything, I hate Rowling even more now:
A community group in the Indian city of Calcutta says it has been [...]
It is as inevitable as the tradition that inspires it - feeling pangs of nostalgia while Kolkata1 gears up to welcome Maa Durga and her four children - Karthik, Ganesh, Lakshmi and Saraswati, worship and revel in her homecoming for the next four days.
Time to let off a small, silent sigh and think of the [...]
Thanks to Google Earth, which now has pretty high-resolution images of Indian cities, I have been indulging in a bit of nostalgia today: looking at a bird’s-eye view of the place where I spent the majority of my growing years. Due to my dad’s constant job transfers, growing up I spent time in various Indian [...]
For generations, people in Kolkata have been used to frequenting the local ‘bajaar‘ (market) every morning for fresh vegetables, fruits and fish (what is a Bengali without his fish), and the ‘parar moodir dokan’ (roughly translated: the local cornershop) for their grocery needs. For books, you went to College Street or waited for the famous Calcutta Book Fair; for trendy clothings, you would go to New Market or Gariahat, to Burrabuzar for bulk items and so on and so forth.
Now that is changing……..
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