The place was used to test artillery shells and was an important strategic location during the Indo-Pak war of 1971.The place still has relics from the past-a decrepit 80 feet tall watchtower, bunkers, army residential places and the kaman-ghor. My uncle, who used to study at a school nearby, told, as a child on occasional days, he used to often hear the booming sounds of shells being tested.
A journey through Greenland
Very few things perhaps please you more than the beauty of nature. Sitting at my works, hunching on my laptop I’m at once transported to the vast whitish expanse of Greenland as I see the video below. We cannot be to all the places we dream to go but a video like this one can […]
Quest for new 7 natural wonders
A little over 3 months back NDTV conducted a survey to choose 7 wonders of India. The grand finale took place in a glittering function in New Delhi on April 3 last. All the 7 selected were man-made monuments, and predictably the Taj Mahal won the ‘race’. Taj Mahal was also one of the New […]
Battering rain
Of all the commonly seen birds, it’s probably only the duck that can weather the fury of rains. Why else would this flock (in the picture below) be perfectly at ease in the midst of heavy downpour, some even managing forty winks! Our condition was not any different from other species despite the advantage of […]
Kolkata’s river
Anybody who hasn’t been to Kolkata including many in our country may find it hard to gauge that the city stands by a mighty river. The Hooghly river is not only snow-fed and therefore has water all round the year, it is also home to the play of tides from/to the Bay of Bengal. The […]
Elephantine love
It’s not easy to chase elephants with lens in hand, especially if it’s a pair of 2 lovers madly in love. But such is the juice that can be milked from the story that lensmen and scribes from near and far do not mind wading through jungles and ponds to capture the pair in action. […]
Kolkata is drenched
Confined at home on a rainy Sunday staring disparagingly at TV news disgustingly predicting looming possibility of mid-term general elections, what would a lazy person like me otherwise do? Most certainly topping the list would be walloping plateful of delicious khichuri with elish maachh bhaja, while coming a close second would be none other than […]
Rabindra Sarobar
Kolkata is blessed with lakes and waterways like few cities are. But apart from naming them after luminaries, we do precious little to take care of them. Rabindra Sarobar at Dhakuria is an example. Till a few years back the settlers along Budge Budge railway track used to wash clothes and utensils and take bath […]
Day of crows
Crows are the most visible urban scavengers. They search for food in the remotest of the places, even inside your kitchen if it permits them a fair view from outside. Should there be a sudden rush of quite a few of them at a place, rest assured there must be sumptuous meal that has been […]
Monsoon sky of Kolkata
When is the sky bluest? When is it that it seems the sunlight can never be so bright? It’s during monsoon that these are so, and these happen when the sky clears after a fresh bout of shower. In winter when there’s very less cloud in distant horizon, the sky doesn’t appear as blue as […]