Get Lost
Take our hand and stroll through this great city. From Gariahat along Sarat Bose Rd, to Shakespeare Sarani, Chowringhee and the legendary Park St. The street art. Gods wrapped up in macramed tops against the Calcuttan winter. Masala Pepsi ? A tea tree The Calcuttans, effortlessly graceful and naturally gracious. Film makers and […]
Read More Kolkata Pitter PatterWhen in Mysore we stay at the Green Palace Hotel. The GP is a stately pile, evidently built by the Maharaja for one of his sisters. We think it may have been a less-favoured sister as the place, glorious though it is, is, (in Mysore Maharaja terms) more of a hunting lodge, albeit a grand […]
Read More The Green Palace of MysoreWe’re hooked on the Bengali writer Amitav Ghosh. We love the way he seamlessly weaves bizarre (but largely true) history, colourful and enormously engaging characters, exotic countries, elaborate customs and endlessly fascinating linguistics together to create an intricately woven fabric that shimmers and glistens and changes even as your eye takes it in. Once again […]
Read More Dislocated Book Report: The Glass PalaceSea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh, shortlisted for the Man Booker in 2008. The first in the Ibis trilogy (the others River of Smoke, Flood of Fire). A glorious, rollicking yarn in the time-honoured tradition of storytelling, Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies follows a disparate group of characters first individually and then together as they forge […]
Read More The Dislocated Book Report: Sea of Poppies
The Dislocated Hippies 