Sandakfuian Tales – 1

26May09

14th May – As soon as I’d seated myself on the flight to Calcutta, I realised that I was in a seat that was wrong by all standards. I couldn’t push it back as it was close to the emergency door. This was a fact I was unaware of. Adding to my discomfiture was the [...]

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Tags: Baichung Bhutia, Calcutta, Darjeeling Mail, Flights, Kolkata, Manebhanjan, New Jalpaiguri, Salt Lake City, Sealdah Station, Trek

Sandakfuian tales

21May09

The trip was unlike others. The same can be said about each one of them. I did a lot of things for the first time. Not all good. I’m still tired from the trek, but the diary has to be posted. I’ll try to edit the pages and post between massages. The body, sadly, is [...]

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Tags: Diary, Sandak, Sandakfu, Sandakphu, Tales, Travel, Travelogue, Travels, Treks, Trips

Towards Sandakphu.

13May09

Even as the gang is struggling to come out of the Ladakh reverie, Sandakphu beckons. This time with a different gang. It’s as much as the companions as the place that lend color to the journey, the companions a shade more as the place itself would be lifeless were it not for them. Had I [...]

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Tags: Ladakh, Roald Dahl, Sandakfu, Sandakphu, Travel, Trekking, Trips

Update on Dr. Binayak Sen’s case

11May09

Been some more days, yet no indications of good times. Dr. Binayak Sen continues to languish in jail, mentally anguished and physically ill. There was a report yesterday in the Hindu about some English academia trying to petition the Indian government for Dr. Sen’s immediate release. Similar petitions have been submitted earlier without much success [...]

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Tags: Apathy, Callous, Callous media, Callousness, Chhatisgarh, Dr. Binayak Sen, Media, Naxals, State Atrocities, State Government

Lack of

04May09

time and creativity is forcing me to post the stupid sketches I’ve been coming up with ever since Mr. P dared me into producing Dalian works. Of course, the sketches are far from the esoteric Dali, but one thing they would share with his esoterica is the scandalous reactions they would invoke. That’s the only [...]

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Tags: Arrogance, Art, Indulgences, Passing away time, Salvador Dali, Showing Off, Sketches, Stupidity