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    A Foreigner’s Durga Puja Journey in Kolkata

    September 22, 2025 - By 

    Sujoy Roy Chowdhury Chapter 1: Arrival in the City of Joy Alex stepped off the plane at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport with a sense of excitement buzzing inside him. He had read countless travel blogs about Kolkata’s Durga Puja, but nothing could have prepared him for the sight that greeted him the moment he arrived. The terminal itself was decorated with banners showcasing the festival—bright reds, golds, and oranges, images of the goddess Durga in all her glory, and the words “Welcome to the City of Joy” beaming from every corner. Outside the airport, the humid October air…

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    The Colors of Kinnaur

    September 19, 2025 - By 

    Suparna Joshi Chapter 1 – Farewell to the Familiar Aarav sat by the window of his Mumbai apartment, staring at the grey skyline that had become both home and cage over the past decade. The hum of traffic outside, the incessant ringing of his phone, and the never-ending emails that demanded his attention had all begun to weigh on him in ways he hadn’t anticipated. Each day felt like a loop—wake up, rush to the office, attend endless meetings, deal with deadlines, return home exhausted, and sleep, only to repeat it all the next morning. The thought of continuing this…

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    The Colours of the Desert: Three Souls, One Story

    June 15, 2025 - By 

    Deepayan Roy Chapter 1: It was one of those mellow Kolkata afternoons in early December when the winter sun bathed everything in a soft, golden glow. The city hummed lazily outside, trams clanged their way down College Street, and a faint aroma of roasted peanuts drifted in from the street vendor downstairs. Inside Deep’s room, the three friends sat sprawled on the cool mosaic floor, the ceiling fan lazily creaking above. The room had a lived-in warmth—walls lined with bookshelves, posters of travel destinations, a dusty guitar in the corner. Deep, always the thoughtful one, leaned against the wall, his…

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    The Forgotten Tribes of the Northeast

    June 13, 2025 - By 

    Prithvi Mukhopadhyay Chapter 1: The aircraft trembled slightly as it descended through dense rainclouds. From the tiny window, Armaan Roy caught fleeting glimpses of green — endless forests, swollen rivers, and distant ridgelines lost in mist. The runway came into view like a wet ribbon stretched across the wild earth. With a final lurch, the wheels kissed the ground, water spraying out in silver arcs beneath them. Armaan inhaled deeply, as if trying to drink in the unfamiliar air through the tiny vent. Even inside the cabin, he could smell the monsoon — wet earth, woodsmoke from distant fires, and…

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    Whispers of the Himalayas

    June 12, 2025 - By 

    Rinchen Lama 1 I hadn’t planned to go to Sikkim. In fact, Sikkim was a word that had only floated around in conversations—half-remembered from childhood geography classes or heard during travel shows playing in the background of my mother’s living room. What I had planned, after six years of numbing spreadsheets and artificial smiles in a Mumbai office, was to disappear for a while. Not forever, but long enough to breathe air that wasn’t laced with ambition or dust. The idea came quietly, like mist crawling over a windowpane. I was sitting in a mind-numbingly boring client pitch when my…

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    Windswept Roads

    June 11, 2025 - By 

    Ishani Sen The Road to Leh The plane shook with a sudden jolt as it dipped through clouds, drawing a quick gasp from the passenger in seat 14A. She gripped her window armrest instinctively, then laughed at herself under her breath. “Relax, Tara. You’ve been through worse,” she whispered. Below, the Himalayas looked like a sea of frozen waves, pale under the morning sun. Tara Mukherjee had seen many corners of the world—Peruvian rainforests, Icelandic black beaches, the neon chaos of Tokyo—but India, in all its chaos and contradiction, always called her back. This journey wasn’t like the others. It…