Have you ever seen your hometown on Google Maps? It is a mixed feeling of surprise coated with immense nostalgia. Shillong, my home, is a place I have essentially discovered on foot. I have walked to school, to friends’ homes, to happiness and to lose myself. Luckily, the connectivity and the safety have allowed me…
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Iewduh or Bara Bazar is probably the oldest and the largest wholesale market in Shillong. Here you can quite literally buy anything, if you look hard enough. As a local of the hill-city, I have been to Bara Bazar only a few times. And each time I have got lost. Late last year, I lost…
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For as long as I can remember, ‘fitting in’ was an essential part of growing up in Shillong. It wasn’t mandatory, but it wasn’t optional either. As a Bengali in Shillong, many of my acquaintances still don’t believe I’m from there. It is true, not all Bengalis find their roots in Kolkata or Bengal. My…
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It is exotic, it is rare and above all, it is special. Every time I’ve travelled to a new place, I have hardly escaped its charms or the inviting culture and people. And I know I’m not the only one. A late-Goa-bloomer, I first travelled to the overhyped, smallest state of India in October 2011,…
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The concept of home is subjective. It may be a place where we have lived for most parts of our lives or for travellers like me, it could be a place we keep going back to in life. No matter the influence of the location or memory, home is a place of belonging. It is…
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It is where I fell in love with the night sky. It is where I began talking with trees. It is where I learnt that walking is the best way to know another person. Through my childhood years in Shillong, I have struggled to fit in. I suppose it is the age where we are…
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