About Shillong: Shillong is also known as "The Abode of Clouds", one of the smallest states inIndia. It is situated at an average altitude of 4,908 feet (1,496 m) above sea level, with the highest point being Shillong Peak at 6,449 feet (1,966 m) In 2016, it was voted "India's Favourite Hill Station" bycom It’s known... Continue Reading →
Mawlynnong
About Mawlynnong: Mawlynnong/Mawlynnong Village located in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, also referred as ‘God’s own garden’ has won the acclaim of being the cleanest village in Asia in 2003. The village known for its cleanliness is located around 90 kms from Shillong and is a community based eco-tourism initiative. The community has made collective effort to maintain... Continue Reading →
Root Bridge
About Root Bridge: Meghalaya's double-decker and single-decker root bridges are unique in the world and are a sight to behold. The bridges are tangles of massive thick roots, which have been intermingled to form a bridge that can hold several people at a time. Khasi people have been trained to grow these bridges across the... Continue Reading →
Shnongpdeng
About Shnongpdeng : Shnongpdeng is a Village in Amlarem Block in Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya State, India. It is located 38 KM towards South from District head quarters Jowai. 12 KM from Amlarem. 49 KM from State capital Shillong This Place is in the border of the Jaintia Hills District and East Khasi Hills... Continue Reading →
Guwahati
Guwahati museum The guwahati museum has this wall painting outside…. It’s a take on textiles…and here I am with the young guy who painted this…. His name is Neelim Mahanta, and he and rishi are going on this reke tour to find more walls to paint!!! The energy and simplicity is sooo nice to see…... Continue Reading →
Coming back to India from USA 1970 or so…
I came across an old falling apart book whilst moving from one city to another....a file carried through 40 years unlooked at, unread, unseen. And then one day I opened it and read what I had been writing 40 years ago. It was interesting, giving a picture of some of the things that I wrote... Continue Reading →
The first I think youth festival….Malavali
And that article made me a writer..... I became a correspondent for the youth magazine Junior Statesman (which jug Suraiya has written about in a newly published book,) It was a period of writing about artists, music, just about anything..... Desmond Doig was an editor par excellence... he would meet us in the Mumbai Statesman office... Continue Reading →
Chor Bazaar
The best part of writing in those times was that I was gong to new places and trying to figure out what i felt about it. Writing forces you to say something about something..... I would never have remembered going to any of these places if i had not written about it.... all that remains... Continue Reading →
Cabaret Girls
There were cabaret shows and girls dancing in clubs all over Mumbai at that time.... a freind of a freind of a freind had a night club and I went several nights to the club, had some of the girls come out to lunch, and learnt about their lives.............. always liked meeting people who were... Continue Reading →
35 and Free
I guess I must have been turning 35 when I wrote this...which makes it 1980 or so..... 35 at that time we saw as quite a turning point.... it was like really becoming a super adult..... has that changed??? AOme comments would be nice...can see page views increasing but no comments....so please do ... pretty... Continue Reading →