Preamble The nature photographs I am about to share with you all have interesting and thrilling stories behind them. These nature photographs were clicked in the pre-drone era from above an abandoned forest watch-tower located in the deep jungle of Satpura Tiger Reserve Forest in Hoshangabad district, Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh has some highly picturesque […]
Author: Firoze Ahmed
Yellow Taxi: An unforgettable experience in Kolkata Part 2
June 2007 Continued from Part 1 It was my second visit to West Bengal. I had qualified GATE and went to take admission in IIT Kharagpur or Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad for my M-Tech course. Keeping two extra days for that trip for any unforeseen delay in admission procedure seemed to be the […]
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Yellow Taxi :A trip down memory lane Part 1
Introduction Love it, hate it, but you cannot ignore it. That’s yellow taxi for you, my friends. These are old to very old ambassador cars, which have been plying Kolkata roads since 1958(The Indian Express). It is one the cities in which taxis are yellow. Their numbers are decreasing gradually due to its replacement by […]
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Gardening is Therapeutic
The Beginning Gardening is therapeutic. It is one of the best forms of therapy and I owe my deep love for plants to two of my most important women in life. My mother and my wife. It all started when I was a single digit-year-old boy who loved to be around his mommy most of […]
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March Lily showed us that Patience pays….
Prelude This story goes back to October 2018 when we had visited Sikkim. After an adventurous and mesmerizing trip to North Sikkim (Lachen, Gurudongmar lake, Lachung, Yumthang, Zero point), we came back to Gangtok and stayed there for a couple of days to unwind all the adrenaline rush. During that time, we mainly visited the […]
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Samosa, a savoury gift to mankind!
The Beginning For me the golden crispy savoury triangles more commonly called samosa( or shingara as my wife calls it) came straight from ‘Heaven’ for the hungry soul. My love tryst with the humble samosa started from my school canteen days. After having our tiffin during lunch hours I used to loiter around the school […]
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A tram ride in the city of Joy!
Weekend goals It was a saturday. The sky was overcast with a slight drizzle. As usual, the only day to do all other ‘works’ other than office work. It was overloaded that day with usual domestic chores plus an irritating job which was to submit KYC documents to the LPG agency. But wait, before that […]
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Ink Pen
Ink Pen and handwriting During my farewell from college to join the current job, a ‘Parker’ ink pen was one of the parting gifts amongst many others by my friends. For about half a decade, the gift was lying idle, until recently. I accidently got hold of the pen while I was searching for something […]
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Baranti, a picturesque weekend getaway near Kolkata
Inspite of a strong urge for a weekend trip since the last Christmas-New year week, we somehow couldn’t manage to chalk out a plan due to immense work pressure. Adding to it are the limited weekend destinations in and around Kolkata. At last, we managed to plan a short trip on my birthday weekend. Out […]
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Art and Painting-A lost passion.. found
This picture has a bit of a story. I was on an official tour near a small town in Ajmer. I had to stay there for a couple of months for completion of a project. It all started when I went to a local shop to buy some stationery items required for official purpose. There, […]
