Random thoughts blog

It was raining cats and dogs outside. A girl sitting by the side of the glass window was enjoying tea and chicken fritters and was listening to a soothing music. Suddenly a roaring thunder!! And the power went off. She was afraid of dark. Let me say here, her name is Kajal. Though this time somehow she gets comfortable in dark with sound of the rain and smell of the wet earth. She didn't feel the urge to immediately turn on the torch in phone either. She is a girl of 17 years, living with her parents and grand parents in a town of India. She found the atmosphere cozy for her and started dozing. She was distracted by her mother's call for dinner. Her mother is Lila, a school teacher. Kajal went for dinner downstairs. They were having Khichri (mixture of rice & Lentils) and different kinds of fries and fritters. It is really a special dish for Bengalis when it rains. The family was having really a fun chatting while dining. They were just over with their...

Bond in my eyes     Personally, I don't feel any craze like other young people of my age for the so called celebrated personalities. But this particular Anglo Indian writer from Dehra stole my heart when I was only nine years old. Since then I loved his write ups so much but was not aware of the fact that his write ups would become so much for my soul as I grow up. I really wonder and wish if I could have met Bond.I remember the first story that I read of Bond was "Mukesh starts a Zoo". I really enjoyed the simple little adventures and little troubles of the kids to start a zoo. I still remember how I used to get an enjoyable, thrilling fear while reading "The Black Cat". During the nights I really used to avoid reading the part from where Miss Bellow appears in the scene. The way Bond portrayed a ghostly character through Miss Bellow is really eerie but not something that would leave a dark scar on the innocent mind of a child. Its like a child would get a ghos...

As the very title suggests, its going to be something about Poyela Boishakh or the Bengali New Year. 'Poyela' means one or the 1st and Baishakh is the first month of the year in Bengali year calendar, so Poyela Boishakh is the first day of the first month of the year. Another term for Bengali New year is Naba Barsha. 'Naba', means new and 'Barsha', means year. This year Naba Barsha or the Bengali year calendar turns 1429 . So, the year only suggests how ancient the tradition of Bengali New year is. Naba Barsha is traditionally celebrated with 'Gostho Yatra'. Here comes a question what is 'Gostho Yatra'. So, in ancient times cow was the economic measuring stick. The area of cow grassing was said to be a goth. People in the process of celebrating their Godhon, that is their economic strength represented through cow, they ended up worshipping Lord Krishna. This is because, Lord Krishna is said to be brought up in a family where...

I sit to write about the every day journey of so many people.No no here I am not talking about any journey of philosophical sense but how the particular everyday journey transcends to a philosophical mode. It is about the people traveling in Kolkata (India) local trains, especially the ladies compartments of Sealdah South Section trains. Its about so many people from so many different sections of society, from different areas of immediate locality who travels in the particular local trains and who actually belongs to different genres of professions in the social hierarchy and some are even students. The professions in which these particulars belong to are, some are teachers, some officials in hospitals or nurses at hospitals,some are job holders of eminent companies, some are clerks or possessing a high designating rank in government offices, and some are even house helps or gives nursing care to some ailing persona at home, and as I said earlier that some are students, tho...