learning and growing

So back in my second year when I read The Calcutta Chromosome,I felt extremely intrigued by the plot and had to read it a second time to understand the text completely.Now when I read it again,I stop to ask myself everytime,how can a writer write so well and come up with such a story.Mind you,Amitav Ghosh,the author, took a gap of eight years to pen this story down and he has got everything right in this novel.The language is easy to understand but a careful reading is required.He brings Kolkata alive to those readers who know the place well and also to those who don't.Murugan is probably THE loved character by all in this book, and the way Ghosh presents Murugan here,clearly throws light on how far Ghosh himself had gone,to make a detailed research for his creation.It is not surprising that he has been honoured with the Arthur C.Clarke Award for this.People claim this to be a Science Fiction story,and they are right about it because it is extremely fascinating to see the new gene...

Peace has been restored with the end of Durga Puja.No more waking up at five in the morning or staring at colourful dumb faces,or listening to all those useless bragging,or trying to avoid people you can't help cursing.I always feel glad,when I visit my hometown,more so because I treat this place, as a vacation spot nowadays,but to return back and immediately face the Pujas with all its hoch-poch-ness,is asphyxiating,that too because you know though a vacation,it is not exactly one,with all the paperwork, reference and every other thing that requires reading and reading which again demands peace.A few days back,someone just texted me saying of how I put an extra emphasis on 'I',everytime I write my blog and if you are reading this,I must say that, that nothing can be stupider than your question,because this is MY blog,where I write about MY experiences,likes,dislikes,feelings,and about everything that happens to ME. So there is nothing wrong in that.I have seen enough thick...

When people say,' why can't you live the British way of life?It helps you feel emotionally stronger and independent',-As if i was born to do that.The fact that I am humane and have my own weaknesses and strength,is not cared for.I really care little about people who try to boast about how excellently well they are in all their English ways,despite being brought up in an Indian family.I pity people who can't think anything beyond themselves.When it comes to me,i am first a Bengali,and then an Indian.I would prefer to have a lot many 'fuchkas' on the streets than to go to a five star restaurant and have my food,with more thinking and with more restrictions and following all the food eating etiquette.It becomes suffocating.I would rather speak more than pretend to be quiet,because that would ultimately make me dumb and i care about dumbness.I would love to stay alone,and then not stay alone and then miss my close people and then call them up,to say how much I miss ...