মহালয়া এবং আরও কিছু ছবি
I avoid crowded places, given my weak health now. But I had to give in to the demands of Saimantick. Sayan too joined in and we left for the ghats at 3:30 AM on Mahalaya. I never thought the day would [Read more...]
Colours
কিছু ছবি, কিছু গল্প।
A fistful of short incidents and interactions, I had in the last couple of weeks. I hope you like them. প্রথম It is quite common to see young and mid aged chess [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]