The Tower Kolkata (Calcutta)
X1, 8/3, Block EP, Salt Lake, Sector-V Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, 700091, India
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The City of Joy-Kolkata
... met the first additions of our new street family,some may call us suckers and we probably are but it was worth it just to spend time with these awesome and interesting kids, four young boys standing around front of KFC each carrying a bunch of balloons each as they were working, hoping to sell a balloon for ten rupees each (20 cents). One boy Jakir and his three cousins, I became very fond of Jakir, bethought he was 13, but wasn't sure as he didn't have a birthday, to me ...
Sudder St Kolkata here we come
... have gone, there are no cows creating chaos with the traffic and one only sees a couple of vultures high in the sky. I also realize that the beggars are no longer so in ones face, I don’t see the stumps of limbs in front of my eyes as we are stopped in gridlock, the beggars we see are mainly old women and a few disabled people lying on foot paths…Its bad to the western eye but not like the old days. On exclusive Park street I watch an old woman for 20 ...
47 South Tangra Rd and beyond
... There are now 80 children from the surrounding slum areas that come to Stars each day.Stars is a registered NGO however receives virtually no external funding and is solely run/ funded by Yasmin and her husband Kafa , there are 7 teachers (one of them was here when I came before) and they provider basic education, the children also get a meal (often the only decent meal the children get each day. About 20 children live full time at Stars, they have either come off ...
Meditations: Reflections of a Year in India
... to chant the Hindu sacred texts
dhoop- incense
Ananda- the omnipresent Bliss underlying all of creation
Vedic Seer- enlightened being from the earliest period (Vedic) of civilization in India
Rudraveena- an ancient plucked stringed instrument is very low in register mainly used in Dhrupad music
Mian Ki Malhar- a monsoon Raga composed by Mian Tansen
alankaars- multiple note ornaments to beautify the Raga
rishi- ...
Crazy in Kolkata
... when we were just too tired and had to go to bed. We exchanged numbers and emails, and Anup Sharma told to call him ‘anytime’. We were finally able to meet up with him on our last afternoon in the city. He came out from his apartment to find us near the same hotel, and we spent a lazy afternoon sitting outside the market building talking about stuff we’d done around town in the last few days. I wanted to learn a few Hindi phrases, and Anup Sharma was eager ...



