I walked out of a hotel on Waterloo Street at ten on Saturday night. I had gone there to report … More
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Ferrying Freedom
Standing at a traffic signal in India, you will find many people knocking on your car window, selling flowers, incense … More
On Walking the Streets of North Kolkata
Someone recently said in a lecture, “Heritage doesn’t need to be aesthetic to be valuable.” That is one sentence that … More
For Amaltas
Amaltas or the golden shower tree is in full bloom now and it is perhaps one of the few good … More
Words are careful drawings
On somedays I want to fold my limbs in a brown, cardboard box and climb a highway truck not asking … More
The Ecstasy of attention
Little things keep happening to us, in which we are not the active agents but just people observing, listening, feeling. The lack of our participation in it should not obliterate those things into non-entity, isn’t it? Most of life will be about these ordinary moments of attention and human connection. Big things don’t happen everyday nor do their causes or consequences exhaust themselves on the day of their occurring. Most of life to put it simply is spent in meaning making and reading the world with our eyes and our very hearts.
As they say “There is ecstasy in paying attention”.
On “Nature Trail”, A Walk at Victoria Memorial
We delude ourselves into thinking that great experiences can only happen in great places which are canonised, like literary texts … More
Catharsis 