In July 2014, during a month long assignment to parts of North East India for SaffronStays, I travelled to Meghalaya with the co-founder Tejas. It was a familiar place owing to the frequent childho…...
In March 2014, during my trip home to Assam, I travelled to India’s largest river island, Majuli. Luckily, my trip coincided with the celebration of one of Mishing community’s local fes…...
I remember running behind tiny specks of light in our unmowed lawn. Cupping my hands around one of the many fireflies that surrounded me, I’d peer curiously to see if it continued to glow between mâ...
We stood there gaping at the bird’s-eye view of the rivers Teesta and Mahananda , at patches of inhabited land that was Siliguri and its neighbouring towns, and a clear strip of land that we were tâ...
For someone who loves the old-world, slow-paced charm of Kolkata, the prospect of travelling to Darjeeling in North Bengal was rather exciting. While planning a trip to the hill station, as part of…...
It was 5:30 pm and the quiet forest seemed to have suddenly come alive. A downpour later, the howling wind violently rustled the trees. The kids in the house were running about, singing songs in Ne…...