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Botanical Gardens

A hot afternoon but the lure and nostalgia of the Botanical Gardens had 16 of us traipsing there. Well maintained,...
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Burra Bazaar ~ Bagri Market

Burra Bazaar ~ Bagri Market
The Burrabazar Market locally known as China Bazar now Bagri Market was always a destination for buying firecrackers during Diwali....
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Chakdighi Baganbaati~ Rural Ramble

Chakdighi Baganbaati~ Rural Ramble
    The Rural Ramble in Bengal Home to the most opulent, a lifestyle unimaginably grandiose, there are gems tucked...
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Club Bengal

For more than a century no institution has been more peculiarly British than the Clubs to recreate social features of...
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Club CCFC

The British Raj left India but indelibly altered the then existing social and political structure which retained  vestiges of the...
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Conservation Rambles

Conservation Rambles
I was married into a “Bonedi” Bengali family with regal antecedents. Though we lived in South Calcutta, having come away...
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Cooch Behar

We crossed Teesta and the Torsha river We came to the Bangladesh border The same blues and greens and paddy...
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Cooch Behar ~ Raash Pujo

Rash Mela in West Bengal is a festival celebrating the divine love of Sri Krishna and Radha.. Celebrated on the...
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Cooch Behar Palace

Rash Mela in West Bengal is a festival celebrating the divine love of Sri Krishna and Radha.. Celebrated on the...
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Dalhousie Trails – A wintry Sunday morning, great Company, a rockstar guide and legends of the past!

Dalhousie Trails – A wintry Sunday morning, great Company, a rockstar guide and legends of the past!
We went through a trail of the Colonial Empire, a walk back in time.. The Europeans mainly the British who...
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