Life in the Times of Corona Family time for me always meant loud, noisy get-togethers. Hot drinks, the quintessential Assam tea, and cold drinks, you know the on-the-rocks kind, served every odd hour, snacks meaty or non-meaty passed around and devoured with gusto, cackles of wild-eyed laughter, snorts, and impromptu …
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Have you ever driven by the City Girls College? Yes, I am talking about the old, a rather ancient college still standing tall and proud since the British Raj days, just like an ol’ man who’s unsure of his place in the new, strange world. I am sure, if you …
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Dear Readers, before you read this, you have to know that this article of mine is not a travelogue on the great Kaziranga National Park. Today, I am writing about my own experiences in the Park, a forest so deep and so mysterious…a land which has never failed to mesmerize …
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SECOND INNINGS! When she was in her early twenties, as a young woman then, she realized to her utter secret mirth that she was in love…and not just any other love…it was the typical head-over-heels love! Like any other love-struck mortal, she thought then that her whole life was finally …
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SOMEBODY CALLED A WOMAN She screamed out in terror…she could not breathe. It was as if her whole being was paralyzed, she realized that her broken body refused to move…maybe it was out of sheer fear or some primordial instinct to save herself. As she lay on the carpet, battered …
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“Gold, Glitter, Wedding Bells and the Wedding Season” (This was published in the Melange, the Sunday magazine of the Sentinel on 22nd September, 2013) The advent of the wedding season usually ushers in a state of euphoria in the society. The heightened sense of activity everywhere reinstates the fact that …
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Musings and Memories (This was published in the Melange, The Sunday Magazine of the sentinel on 25th august, 2013) Very recently I was cleaning up my book-space and digging up very old volumes of books when I came across my book-collection written by one of my favorite childhood author, Enid …
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Along Came Bonny Meghali Barua