The etiquette of Kölsch.
Recently in Cologne, I met with one of my closest friends, Claire. We went to a local Brauhaus (English: Brewery, "Beer-House"), called "Em Kölsche Boor" and had a whale of a time. Loud raucous [Read more...]
The heaven of wall arts – Köln, Germany.
"Everything that I could write about is already written. And all the knowledge that I have is from what I read. In two days, what new would I discover which others have not possibly written [Read more...]
The Biswa “Bangla” Gate or the Kolkata Gate !
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...]
Finding Birds in Magdeburg, Germany.
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...]
এ এক নতুন বসন্ত। মাগডেবর্গ ২০১৮
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...]
మాగ్డేబుర్గ్ స్ప్రింగ్
వసంత ఋతువు వచ్చింది వసుధకు అందం తెచ్చింది పచ్చ పచ్చని చిగుళ్ళతో పరవశాన్ని కలిగించింది వసంత ఋతువు వచ్చింది అని చిన్నపుడు 3 వ తరగతి లో ఋతువుల గురుంచి చదువుకున్నాం. ఆరు ఋతువులు ఉంటాయి అని తెలుసు [Read more...]
It’s Spring in Magdeburg!
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...]
A couple of hours in Monaco.
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...]
A day and a half in Toulouse, France.
“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...]
So, Nice was actually nice!
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...]