Warn­ing: Post filled with ref­er­ence to cats and cat pho­tos :) So let me tell you my story. The owner of this blog decided to leave me with a ship­ful of cats and a dog while she was away traips­ing all over the place. Actu­ally, it was her annual home visit, but I was excluded […]

After a hec­tic week at home, it was time for a fly­ing visit to Sin­ga­pore. I’d had a stop over at the island years and years ago, so I didn’t have too many ideas about the place. All I knew was that it was a small­ish island very close to Malaysia and Indone­sia. And some […]

Ron­gali Bihu is a fun time for us Assamese peo­ple. Luck­ily for me, I landed in the thick of action. The sec­ond day itself I was whisked off for a Bihu gath­er­ing by my dad. Appar­ently it’s a tra­di­tion for his group of friends (going way back to 1957!) to meet dur­ing Bihu and spend […]

So, here I am at home with the par­ents in Guwa­hati. The phone, not sur­pris­ingly, has been out of order for a while. Finally today, I hear a shrill noise that shocks me out of my reverie. Appar­ently, it’s the phone ring­ing. Once I’ve con­firmed the instru­ment is actu­ally work­ing, I log on to the […]

Post ded­i­cated to the lovely Aqua I first under­stood what it meant never to know one’s coun­try when I met Aqua. Her par­ents are exiled Tibetans liv­ing in Dar­jeel­ing, who will never go back to their coun­try again as long as it remains a Chi­nese ter­ri­tory. And the same goes for Aqua, who is Tibetan, […]