Shravan—the hotel caretaker—walked me off to the Post Office opposite to Reckong Peo bus stand. Kalpa is about six kilometres uphill from Peo. I was waiting for a maxi van to Kalpa when a local person gave me a lift to Kalpa bus stand. When I offered him money, he refused. I had forgotten how … [Read more…]
It took me thirty-three hours to reach Reckong Peo! I left my house at 7:00 AM yesterday in a cab to catch an AirAsia flight at 11:00 AM to Delhi. The flight landed at 1:00 PM or so. I picked up my luggage and made my way towards ISBT Kashmeri Gate. Delhi Metro is laid … [Read more…]
The medical kit that I carry around has six distinct components—stomach ailment, antibiotics, fever and pain management, skin care, sprain and wound care, and speciality medicine. Stomach ailment Aluminum-Magnesium Hydroxide (Gelusil / Digene): Good for mild acidity and indigestion. I usually carry an entire strip. Ranitidine 150 mg (Aciloc / Rantac): Decreases acid production in … [Read more…]
In June, I have produced and engineered two songs—for two completely different projects. Sweet Poison with Vapour Sea Vapour Sea is a collaboration project between me and Sudipto. While we waited for the guys in Dark Project to finish recording (and I wonder if it would ever be finished), Shounak pitched in a seed idea … [Read more…]
I have been using DigitalOcean for the last three years. I am pretty happy with their service. Of late, I found that my website takes a tad too long to load. Reasons for migration My old server ran Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It is no longer supported by Canonical The machine had only 0.5 GB of … [Read more…]
MW was published in Big Comic from 1976 to 1978. This was a few years after Tezuka’s own comics magazine, COM, folded in 1972. Serialisation began right after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. MW—the titular chemical—is a fictional counterpart of dioxin. Dioxin or Agent Orange was used by the US to launch a … [Read more…]
Blue Is the Warmest Color is the first full length graphic novel by Julie Maroh. It was originally published in French as Le bleu est une couleur chaude. A character composed of letters and diary entries Julie Maroh constructs the story from letters and diaries left by the protagonist—Clementine—after her death. The recipient is Emma—Clementine’s … [Read more…]
Like all previous years, I had called my sister and my mother to Bangalore in March. It’s usually to escape the heat wave that builds up in Kolkata at the onset of summer. Sadly, this year it wasn’t a good decision on my part. Kolkata had much pleasant weather as compared to Bangalore, which regularly … [Read more…]
I. Health and Nutrition In August 2011, I was out of college. I was also in a terrible state. Most of my twenties was spent curating quite a few bad habits. I had completely destroyed my circadian rhythm. In addition to that, heavy intake of processed and junk foods—with no fixed food timings—had caused fatty … [Read more…]
Things to know before reading While it is possible to enjoy the book without having any background of the Israel–Palestine conflict—just the way I had read through the book when I bought my copy years ago—the understanding of this piece of work gets elevated once the reader is exposed to the context in which the … [Read more…]
