Calcutta, always.
The last time I saw my grandmother was a year and a half ago. I've been feeling the guilt for a while now.
a memoir of etchings and wanderings
Category
10 posts
The last time I saw my grandmother was a year and a half ago. I've been feeling the guilt for a while now.
In a recently released Bengali comedy flick, there was a joke about popular culture Bengali music.
You know that song that you come across accidentally, then listen to all day, and hum it again at night?
[](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qGf-Ds1IwE0/URii8T-vy6I/AAAAAAAACX4...
When Baba mentioned to me last week that a Bengali/North-East Indian folk music band was going to be in town to play and tickets were for free, I could see that...
In Bengali, there is a term we commonly refer to as ‘Maatir Manush’, which briefly means ‘made of the earth’ – it’s a connotation for somebody as simple as...
One of the worst mornings in quite a while, and as soon as I stepped into office, the receptionist handed me a little green envelope, and it's been so long that...