What does Happiness mean to you?
A proper definition of happiness remains as ever, elusive. There has been scholars and thinkers who have spent ages wondering what it could mean. I asked the same question to my friends yesterday on [Read more...]
I’m the creative blogger! Err, not the photographer.
"Hi, this is Anirban Saha, a photoblogger based in Calcutta.." "Photo..what? Blo.?" "Umm, blogger." "But you photograph right ? And you have an expensive camera." - Duh! Not every one with [Read more...]
Murshidabad: Hazar duari and around.
One of the chief attractions in Murshidabad is the Hazarduari complex. I would not write about the history of the Hazarduari palace as my knowledge is particularly limited to the Wikipedia [Read more...]
Murshidabad : In search of Bauls (Part 2)
Part 2: A day with Baban Das Baul. “Who was the first man on earth?", asked Baban Das Baul. After a moment of silence, I said, “Manu?”. Ramasish rubbished the idea and said, “It is Adam and [Read more...]
Murshidabad : In search of Bauls (Part 1)
Part 1: Bauls: Spirituality over religion. I set myself out to Murshidabad, after the tiresome Friday in office, in search of the Bauls and the Fakirs. Before I write about my experience there, I [Read more...]
Football mania in Kolkata
“Do you lack the adrenaline rush or something? Why don’t you watch football?” asked Arjyak at the end of the bloggers meet. I came back home and asked my dad, “You do not play football, [Read more...]
Kolkata – a Love story .
You flow effortlessly into the remainder of my nostalgia; a life of stamps on postcards, of sophisticated salons and bittersweet before-dinner drinks; of operas and foreign languages and relics from [Read more...]
Getting offline
Getting offline, speaking about your blog is not only an awesome idea to promote it, but makes you feel genuinely happy from inside. How to get offline? Well, shutting the computer down is not the [Read more...]
In revelry and dissent, my Calcutta
This city of Calcutta, the city of an ever changing skyline.. the city that never stops, radiating from every corner - the exuberance of its colours, its enthusiasm, its spirit. "Tilottoma" Kolkata, [Read more...]
Adda with Derek O’Brien
Kolkata – the city of changing skyline, the city of changing perceptions. Kolkata is the city, I have consciously chosen to live in and this is not a blog post that will speak about how big the heart [Read more...]