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A Travel Memoir: Darjeeling and Places around
Dhotrey, Darjeeling, Dawaipani and Lamahatta A detailed Tour experience of Eastern India Dhotrey, Darjeeling, Dawaipani and Lamahatta Written by Sayoni Mahapatra Chatterji The last one week we travelled and created ample memories and today we finally got time and solace to write an extensive blog on our experience of the travel. We travelled for 8…
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Ennui
List 30 things that make you happy. This seems like a very difficult question! 30 things which makes us happy! Happiness is a very subjective thing . How one sees and shapes happiness can be extremely different or over similar to someone else… Happiness is something… If you ask a child he or she might…
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Can we really sell these products?
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? The magic shop! I would definitely sell powers to people. No! Don’t get me wrong here… Power means to give security to people through the magic potion. There will be three types of magic potions one for economically poor people, one for…
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Futile Efforts
The morning was as usual as any, early still. Some people had started coming out of their resting place in their walking shoes and some in their running shoes. The ones in their formal shoes were some poor souls who were leaving for work, one of the downsides of a more demanding job. Mr Doshi…
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Rumination
By Anuran Chatterji Early Morning Memories The rain had washed away the humidity from the air; the sunlight was clear and the air was comforting. Plants and trees took this as an opportunity to grow vibrantly, spreading wide. Dipta sat on grass in the park. The park was right in front of her three floored…
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Isolated Travel
A bus stop in a wasteland or desert area is not the same sight as the sight of a bus stop that can be seen in a city with all the bright advertisements and a number of commuters waiting to catch a bus. If one saw this stop, then for a moment he/she might…
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Stifling Retreat
The day was beautiful, the flowers were in bloom, the trees were in greens. Children had gone to school, some adults were hurrying for work, while some had stepped out to buy the daily essentials and so had Dipesh. Dipesh had left his work, he had found something to keep him going for good many…
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Essence
What are your future travel plans? Travel ! When I hear the word it results in the understanding of multi-faceted emotions from nostalgia to present day travel. The story unfolds keeping in track of lifestory Travelling is said to be the most wonderful feeling after being together with people who love and care. For many…
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Serendipity
The Sun rose and the morning paved the way for a new day. As the light of the Sun touched the trees of the forest, the daytime life in the forest was set in motion. At night the forest can be a place knocking at our fears but in the morning under the light of…
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Touchpoint
Nirupam instructed the vendor at the paan stall on how to prepare his paan, and the vendor followed. He took a betel leaf and added a small amount of slaked lime to it, then he added gulkand, two small sachets of mouth fresheners and some fennel seeds and cardamom. He then rolled the betel leaf…
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Fortuitous Crossing
The new green grass of the park stared back at the Spring which had flown in to revive the green in all the trees and plants around. The flowering plants on the borders of the park swayed in colours displaying their beauty through the blooms that adorned them. Many adults were worried by the heat…
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Belated Clarity
The mop was drenched in a bucket full of water mixed with floor cleaner. Then the mop was pulled out and rested on the floor before pushing it to wipe the ceramic tiled floor. The mop kept going ahead, moving against the floor and then it stopped and turned left reaching out to the innermost…
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Film Session
“This man in a black jumpsuit ran as fast as he could wearing what were clearly hiking shoes yet somehow, he was running like an athlete; and he was doing it with a heavy machinery inside his bag pack. He was being chased by some people who from the looks of it were professional hitmen…
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Surreal Elation
The door of the bedroom opened and Mrs Bhimwal stepped in. She parted the curtains and the light of day flooded in revealing a colourful wall of the bedroom with different colours of butterfly and flowers. She moved towards the bed and folded the open blanket from its top end to reveal a sleeping 11…
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Desolation
Paritosh opened his eyes from a slumber. His head was resting againstthe window bars. He looked outside, the train had come to a stop at astation. Around 40 years back from now, when the air, rivers and lands weremuch cleaner, the climate and temperature were more favourable andplaces weren’t so crowded, a train journey in…
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Broken Night
It was 10 pm. The cold of the winter spread to all the open corners.The streets had gradually lost people as they had preferred to go home early into the warmth of their homes. But going home early is not a The luxury of all, some people have to work late. They are not to…
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Moving On… Away?
A layer of dust had settled on the wooden table with dark pink sunmicaon top and dark blue sunmica strips on the sides. A pile of books wasdropped on the table and some of the dust flew off and out escaped aphotograph from one of the books. Arti picked up the photograph. It was one…
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Notion of Reflection
What time do you go to bed and wake up currently? The lens of the eyeglasses reflected the white light of the screen.The screen displayed a variety of different coffee drinks. It was anew coffee vending machine that the office had recently got. Unlikethe last vending machine, this one didn’t dispense tea or tomato soup,not…
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Poignant
What is your favorite genre of music? Falguni stood staring at the top of a beetroot which peeked out of theground. She thought for a while and arrived at the conclusion thatmaybe it was time to take the beetroot out and ask my grandmother to cooksomething delicious. Falguni ran on the small path through the…
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Secured Adventure
Every day is a new day and if we see and analysis properly everyday has the mix of everything. From the basic planning of the day of what to make in the lunch to how to make the career choices. According to me these in itself gives us the opportunity to be adventures to instigate…
Early Morning Memories 