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There's a monk in every monkey
TRAVELOGUES


THE FLAME OF BHUVANESHWARI
July 2023 Past Kamakhya, atop Nilachal, quietly sits Bhuvaneshwari, watching over the Brahmaputra and much of Guwahati like a mother. On...


SUALKUCHI: PORTRAIT OF A SILK VILLAGE
July 2023 ~*~


A WATERY, WOODSY WORLD
July 2023 The road, like a scalpel, neatly slices the wilderness into two parts: Barduar Forest Reserve and Mayang Forest Reserve . We...


SAY GEESE
July 2023 ~*~


A DEEPER RED
June 2023 ( Photography ), July 2024 ( Essay ) Baba and His Bahadur Bahadur is a colourful picture of imperturbable equanimity. ...


A VILLAGE AND A WOMAN
June 2023 The first morning opens with a sparkling dialogue between two accomplished orators. The voice modulation is operatic, the...


THE DRAGONFLY EFFECT
June 2023 There are two creatures one must learn to dodge out there in the wilderness: female mosquito and male human. The first creature...


MERRILY LOST, MERRILY FOUND
May 2023 He could be a mystic in tan corduroy chinos and blue cap or a matador in tan corduroys and blue cap. We would know in a few...


THAT EMPATHY FEELING
May 2023 As we gaze at each other, part curiosity part caution, for a full hour and a half, several similarities begin to emerge. One ,...


DEV BOREM KORUM
May 2023 Dev Borem Korum / Dev Bare Karu May god do good to you too. ( T&C apply) Thou shalt not: ~ Litter ~ Buy bottled water or snacks...


HAPPY BIRD DAY
March 2023 ~*~


JUST LIKE WATER
February 2023 Every other poet and philosopher has immersed: in the memory and desire it evokes; the life it offers to subsistence and...


WESTERN WETLANDS, WINTER WINGS
January 2023 I find myself there every other day, drawn inexorably to these watery lands that are host to the countless creatures that...


EDEN ENTANGLED
I don’t know what I am looking for, but I know where to find it | November, 2012 A River, a Reverie Now where do I begin? I could...


GOALLESS IN GOA
December 2012 Goa began at the Chennai international airport, a minute after the gentleman at the Duty Free politely told me that I was...


THAILAND UNABRIDGED
Life is a bit of this, a bit of that, and a bit of nothing. Sums it up, doesn’t it...
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