Category Archives: Walks

Green Mountains

  The area around Ras Al-Hillal, 20 km east of Susa, has some of the most dramatic scenery on a coastline I have ever seen.   For the full effect, Ras Al-Hillal is best approached from the west. Coming up … Continue reading

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Reading clubs again

Reading Groups in Tripoli..He beautifully wrote of the two slogans which the Khmer Rouge used –
“Power flows through the barrel of the gun”…and ‘You cannot make omellettes without breaking eggs’
What he saw in Cambodia, he had read in Calcutta, in the early seventies.Maoist rhetoric.
As one old Bengali friend, a sensitive human being, a keen photographer and teacher
-Tirtha Das Gupta (TDG) once told me, sipping tea in the School of Fototechnik at Bhogal Delhi,
“The Naxalite movement put the people’s movements back by decades” Continue reading

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A wish

Sagar and Sahil making sand mountains at Benaulim beach,Goa Papa, take me back to “Big foot” (The museum of the Alvares family which captures the pristine glory of Goa and has a very well preserved 25o year old house)  where I want to … Continue reading

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