If you are in Kolkata (Calcutta), in no way could you not be introduced to the Biswa Bangla Gate or the Kolkata Gate! There have been speculations about it, be it the design, the “Biswa Bangla Globe”, [Read more...]
The title of the blog post should be - finding time to find birds in Magdeburg! Yea. Really. I came to Magdeburg last October and I was not so quick to realize that it is not going to be anything like [Read more...]
আমরা কলকাতায় / বাংলায় বসন্ত শুরু করি রবি ঠাকুরের "খোল দ্বার খোল, লাগলো যে দোল" দিয়ে। এই গান ছাড়া বাকি কিছুই বোঝা যায়না বসন্তের। ও না, যায়। প্রচণ্ড গরম পড়ে আর আমি বাড়ির থেকে বেরনো বন্ধ করে দিই। হা হা। [Read more...]
When we were young children, we all read about the changes various seasons bring to the world around us. But never in Calcutta did I get to feel it so much! During the winter, the skeleton of the tree [Read more...]
Let me be honest, my knowledge about Europe is decidedly limited to topics I had been introduced to in my childhood, preferably by the history books. In my imaginations, I had Greece, Renaissance’s [Read more...]
“Tulus is the first place we are going”. “How do you pronounce it?”, I asked. With one of the most incomprehensible expressions on her face, Lakshana repeated, “Tulus”. “I mean, how do you spell it?”, [Read more...]
The "Mediterranean Sea" was just another English word with a complicated spelling, I had to revise just before the Geography exam, till I saw the sea with the myriad blue colours hitting the shore and [Read more...]
The Magdeburg Cathedral or the Magdeburg Dom; also called Magdeburger Dom, is the oldest existing Gothic Cathedral/structure in Germany. Initially built in the nine hundreds, this is the newest [Read more...]
- Hey, I’m moving to Magdeburg for my studies. - That’s great. But, umm… where’s that? - Magdeburg is, umm… wait, I need to figure this out! Magdeburg is iconic; as iconic as the city I [Read more...]
- If you write a personal note, who will want to read it? - Let them not read. The handful of those who will, will because they love me. What more can I wish for? - What do [Read more...]