Durga puja in Shillong!

I was hardly 9 when my parents took me to Shillong for my first ever outstation holiday. The best thing about a place like Shillong is the fact that its never boring; the climate, the markets and people most of all. A lot of people from different parts of the world come here for visits and [...]



Bizzare week…..

The whole week has been some sort of malfunctioning in my calm routine. I skipped  my laundry, my messy cupboard remains messy, and my thoughts revolve around the same old issues. Solutions.When. There was also a time when I thought about working as  an english teacher in Korea, later i heard that the political situation in Korea is [...]



A day from my college days

7:00 am; get out of bed
7:15 am; shower time
8:30 am; get dressed for college in white salwar n blue kameez!
8:45 am; eat breakfast
9:00 am; go to college in  marwari patti ( shri digambar jain girl’s college)
9:30 am; attend first period of english literature
10:00 am; bunk the 2nd and the third one and head straight to [...]



Christmas tree and family tree

This has got to be the best Christmas because the anticipation has been longer than ever before! I will meet the entire lot from my maternal side hopefully and have to do a few rounds of my so called “musician friends” from a small town of 5000 people only.
I always wondered about Christmas being celebrated [...]



For a change

Memories of my childhood are blurry, but i do remember getting up at 4:30 in the morning to collect the very popular “shiuli” flower which blooms during durga puja festival. My neighbour, mrs.das, would request me to collect it for her living room too. I know why i used to do that; to skip my [...]



Dilemma

Too many to do lists, too many weddings to attend, too many shopping trips to be made, too many job offers (but not even one to be taken seriously!), and luckily not too many marriage proposals(actually none so far!) and mommy dearest already busy timing my 2008 winter trip to Nagaland, my home town, which [...]