INTRODUCTION This is an anecdotal account of some incidents in the life of a twenty-something young man from Kolkata fresh out of banking training college and posted in rural Assam on his first independent assignment as an officer of a nationalized bank. The four years of exile from the metropolitan city passed slowly but there … Continue reading Stories from Assam – Me and My Mac →

DASSU AND THE THIRD FLUSH (A sequel to Dassu & Mary and Dassu and The Second Coming) AUTHORS NOTE  This fictional story belongs to the series of short stories I wrote narrating the adventures of Dassu Mohan, which means Mohan the Bandit in Bengali. This is a name I selected at random and adopted shamelessly … Continue reading DASSU AND THE THIRD FLUSH →

INTRODUCTION This is an anecdotal account of some incidents in the life of a twenty-something young man from Kolkata fresh out of banking training college and posted in rural Assam on his first independent assignment as an officer of a nationalized bank. The four years of exile from the metropolitan city passed slowly but there … Continue reading Stories from Assam – Silecia and the Triangle of Glass →

INTRODUCTION This is an anecdotal account of some incidents in the life of a twenty-something young man from Kolkata fresh out of banking training college and posted in rural Assam on his first independent assignment as an officer of a nationalized bank. The four years of exile from the metropolitan city passed slowly but there … Continue reading Stories from Assam – Mac and the Dead Dog →

INTRODUCTION This is an anecdotal account of some incidents in the life of a twenty-something young man from Kolkata fresh out of banking training college and posted in rural Assam on his first independent assignment as an officer of a nationalized bank. The four years of exile from the metropolitan city passed slowly but there … Continue reading Stories from Assam – The Homecoming →

(First published in Eastern Star, Axis Bank in 2006. Published in Facebook sometime in October 2013) Most Indians who are not familiar with Bihar have not heard of Litti. But those who are (familiar, I mean) will probably swear by it. For years I have heard this term being mentioned by Bihar returned families, and … Continue reading MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH LITTI →

CARS IN COPENHAGEN We flew in from Bergen to Copenhagen by a Norwegian Air Boeing 737 in the afternoon or maybe in the evening, one could never tell during this part of the year when generally the sunlight simply went on and on and on till late into the night.  Surprised? Closer to the arctic … Continue reading SCAMPERING THROUGH SCANDINAVIA 30 →