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Tajpur & Mandarmoni – Travelling With Friends

Tathagata and I have been living out of suitcases since we got married. We’ve been lucky enough to travel to more destinations than I have fingers in one hand in…

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January 1, 2020
Family, Well Being

What do The Arsenal and I Have in Common? Tathagata.

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them that it is much more serious than that.” Honestly, doesn’t…

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December 26, 2019
Family, Well Being

An Ode to Winter: A Season in the Life

Winter is almost over. Every week a woollen layer is peeled, washed, folded and placed inside the wardrobe. It wouldn’t see the sun in the next 10 months. And here…

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March 5, 2020
Family

COVID Caught Up With Us – Two Survivors’ Tale

It has now been a month and a half since my first symptom. I remember the day before vividly. It was a regular working day. I had wrapped up work…

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June 12, 2021
Lockdown Sanity
Lockdown Sanity
Travel Stories
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Terrific Twos
Terrific Twos
  • Our Biggest Travel Mishaps Part 2
    Travel

    Our Biggest Travel Mishaps | Part 2

    February 12, 2022

    Sometimes the best-laid plans can come undone – especially in travel. When that happens, even though it gets really stressful at that moment, it gets funnier with time. Tathagata and I are meticulous planners. We plan everything down to the T so that there are no surprises that we can’t handle. When we went to Pattaya for our honeymoon in 2018, it was our first trip abroad. So we were extra careful. We went over the entire plan a million times to make sure we weren’t missing anything. We double-checked our tickets. Virtually checked out pre-booked activities. All the transits in between were accounted for. Bags packed and re-packed. All…

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    A surprise birthday trip to Chandipur

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  • Our Biggest Travel Mishaps
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    Our Biggest Travel Mishaps | Part 1

    July 24, 2021

    They say – The only real failures are the ones from which we learn nothing. They also said – You gotta fail at something to have a good laugh later. Actually no one said that. But you know it’s true. And we took it seriously on all our travels. In fact, we’ve jumped on the travel-mishap bandwagon way too many times than we care to remember. I put up a poll on my Insta story recently asking you guys whether you would like to read about some of these mishaps. I received a unanimously positive response. And here we are. When you are on vacation, every second becomes a story.…

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  • COVID Caught Up With Us
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    COVID Caught Up With Us – Two Survivors’ Tale

    June 12, 2021

    It has now been a month and a half since my first symptom. I remember the day before vividly. It was a regular working day. I had wrapped up work by 9 pm or so, dinner by 11, watched a little TV and then went to sleep by 12:00 am. Everything was fine till then. The next thing I know was waking up at around 7:00 am next morning with body ache and a throat irritation. I sprung up on bed with a déjà vu of my dengue experience last November. As my sleepy self tried to find its bearings, a number of things started running through my foggy brain.…

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    Darjeeling

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    Letter to a Loved One – Loss of My Sister

    September 19, 2018
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    July 10, 2019
  • Story of my love affair with Darjeeling
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    The Story of My Love Affair With Darjeeling

    May 16, 2021

    Sometimes I feel like going to the mountains. Spending cold afternoons under the sun. Watching people. It’s like a restoration pill for the mind. Sometimes I wish I could take my laptop there and write something. Maybe someday I will. Even today, I thought of Darjeeling. It’s the only mountain getaway I’ve been to and I’ve fallen in love. My heart belongs to the sea, but Darjeeling probably has the rest of me. A year without travel had the best of us coming up for air. So, as soon as the coronavirus cases attained a stable graph and was showing a declining trend by the end of last year, we…

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    Bali: Lessons on Religion & New Friendships

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  • A Family Picnic by the River
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    A Family Picnic by the River

    March 14, 2021

    Sorry I’ve been AWOL here for some time now. There has been a lot going on the last couple of weeks. Pending bank work, family medical troubles, delayed appointments and so on. You know the drill. Outstanding responsibilities, anyone? I’ve been feeling all sorts of burnouts from that. Mental exhaustion is a bugger, guys. While that’s no excuse for my absence here, I decided to temporarily switch off my low priority engagements to keep my sanity intact. Now that things are beginning to fall into place, I found this short pocket of time to write a long-pending blog post. Many of you who follow me on Instagram or Facebook know…

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  • Shopping detox
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    The Great Shopping Detox – I Went a Year Without Buying Clothes | Takeaways

    January 16, 2021

    I have been a legit shopaholic since the beginning of my career. I remember burning up my entire salary on clothes, shoes, bags and what not. I went full-on Rebecca Bloomwood on my wardrobe. Who else can relate to – “My heart never beats as fast as it does when it sees a ‘reduced by 50 percent’ sign”? Every piece of clothing on the rack or on my mobile screen looked like something I needed. I never seemed to have enough. You know how it is. Those sales Emails and Facebook ads made me weak in the knees. Hitting the ‘Buy Now’ button felt like a sugar rush. A new…

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    May 7, 2020
  • Durga puja 2020
    Family,  Festival,  Well Being

    Durga Pujo 2020 – In Pictures

    October 31, 2020

    Have you all had a chance to breathe lately? Between sanitizing hands and disinfecting food, the leaves turned yellow. The coronavirus has claimed 2020 as its own. The lucky ones have been confined to our homes since what seems like forever, watching the roaring virus wreak havoc in the lives of our less lucky counterparts. Since when did staying home and doing nothing become heroic? And where did the last seven months go? But thankfully, amidst the pandemic pandemonium and swelling COVID cases, October came in like a breath of fresh air and brought with it the autumnal festival that we, Bengalis live for – Durga pujo! The life of…

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  • Family

    Birthday Gift Ideas for Your Gooner Friend/Spouse/Sibling/Parent/Child

    October 17, 2020

    Who is a Gooner? A Gooner is someone who supports the Arsenal football club. And more. A Gooner is someone who has dedicated his/her being to the club and its principles. So a true Gooner is for life. A Gooner’s loyalty lies more in the club’s defeats than in its wins. It takes an admirable amount of faith to be an Arsenal fan. But a Gooner shows up no matter what. In a match. And in life. I read a line somewhere that sums up a true football club supporter best – You can change your wife but you can never change your football club. It’s not a joke. They…

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    Beyond Honeymoon phase

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    June 27, 2020
    A trip to the Botanical Garden

    Our Trip to the Botanical Garden – A Day With Nature

    September 10, 2018
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    Post-Wedding Depression – My Experiences of Leaving Home & How I’m Coping

    September 26, 2020

    It was well after midnight when our wedding ceremony was finally complete. Most of the guests had left by then. The wedding venue was silent and almost empty. That’s when it hit me. I’m never going to have all the people I love in one room like this ever again. I felt heartbroken. I was a bit surprised to be honest because I didn’t expect to feel that way. Especially not on my wedding day. It’s supposed to be all excitement and happiness, right? But there I was, in the middle of two contradictory feelings. Happiness. And heartbreak. I felt it again the next day when I was leaving for…

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  • Setting up a home office for two
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    Setting Up a Home Office for Two | Sources + Process + Total Cost

    August 29, 2020

    2020 has turned out to be a roller-coaster ride. Without the safety belts. The air brakes. And the safety chain. We’ve been flying off our seats at every news update with no guarantee of a safe landing. Now five months into the lockdown we’re still wondering “How on Earth did we get here?” But life goes on. We’ve shaped our day-to-days around a virus that threatens to kill us every second. We’ve raced to define and adjust to a new normal out of fear and then out of hope. And in this delirium, we did the one thing that we’ve always avoided doing. Bringing work home. Now don’t get me…

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