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Revverie

The city deconstructed and reconstructed itself around his bike. It was as if he was flowing through a viscous fluid, cutting a straight line across the forces that were trying to hold him back. They ...
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1K+ Reads
29 parts

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

To the Friends Whose Kindness Alone Rendered Possible My Sojourn in the Orient, Paymaster Mitchell McDonald, U.S.N. And Basil Hall Chamberlain, Esq. Emeritus Professor Of Philology And Japanese In ...
4.5 (4)
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Trans-Musings III On Prejudices

My mother informed me in a hushed tone, "It's a proper Muslim driver, dress, white skull cap and all." I smiled back. There could have been a trace of condescension in my smile. [I wish I carried a ...
5 (5)
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Trans-Musings VII On Spaces

I write this essay days after Gravity won seven Oscars. The idea of ‘space’ as an alternative extra-terrestrial space or site where man and the earth are decentred, where all that we human beings ...
4.5 (4)
176 Reads

Best Weekend Destination: Lasdowne

https://travelkahaniya.blogspot.com/2018/09/best-weekend-destination-lasdowne.html ...
3.8 (7)
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Poetry takes a walk with Arundhathi Subramaniam

Home I haven’t found myself at home in Bombay. ‘To (not) belong’ to a place, a person, to contours on a map or imbibe cultural aesthetics, behavior patterns of bygones and forefathers, has often ...
4.4 (35)
660 Reads
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9 parts

The Road

There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But ...
4 (4)
32 Reads
65 parts

Life On The Mississippi

But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin ...
5 (5)
185 Reads

Trans-Musings I On Travel

In early modern England, where my mind tends to travel very often, scholars just out of university were expected to travel abroad for recreation and practical exposure. I have just completed a ...
4.3 (3)
148 Reads
10 parts

Through Russia

The year was the year '92—the year of leanness—the scene a spot between Sukhum and Otchenchiri, on the river Kodor, a spot so near to the sea that amid the joyous babble of a sparkling rivulet the ...
4.5 (2)
43 Reads

Trans-Musings VIII On Hills, Plains and Dilemma

Barely three days into our holiday trip to Sikkim and North Bengal last week, the world split itself into two for me. I realised that there were two kinds of people: those who live in the hills and ...
3.4 (5)
101 Reads
48 parts

Travels through France and Italy

I Many pens have been burnished this year of grace for the purpose of celebrating with befitting honour the second centenary of the birth of Henry Fielding; but it is more than doubtful if, when the ...
3.6 (3)
64 Reads
83 parts

Roughing It

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help ...
4.8 (5)
106 Reads
18 parts

Kangaroo

A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking. ...
5 (2)
28 Reads
35 parts

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

For as much as the land beyond the sea, that is to say the Holy Land, that men call the Land of Promission or of Behest, passing all other lands, is the most worthy land, most excellent, and lady and ...
68 Reads

Trans-Musings IX On Clothes and Free Will

Around the age that I have just reached, my maternal grandfather quit wearing the Western suit and settled permanently for the dhoti and the kurta , better known as the panjabi in Bengali. My ...
4.8 (7)
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Trans-Musings IV On the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Having lived longest in Kolkata, briefly in Oxford, long in Santiniketan and briefest in Bolpur, in that chronological order, I often find myself thinking about Aesop’s timeless fable. Interestingly, ...
5 (1)
29 Reads

Trans-Musings VI On Music and Popular Taste

The other day, at our annual departmental farewell programme for the outgoing MA final semester students, Manoj Hansda’s song beckoning us away to the tea gardens of faraway Assam set the house on ...
4.8 (6)
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Trans-Musings V On Maids and their Mistresses

The other day I was struck with horror when my son with the characteristically brutal candour of a child referred to his “Gitamashi”, the girl who has lived with and worked at my parents’ home for ...
4.3 (40)
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