Category: Travelogue
GET IT ONLINE
Be it Flipkart.com or Jabong, Homeshop18 or infibeam.com; I have recently turned into an online customers to these online shopping store and loving to purchase quite often from these online stores. Ebay.in and amazon.com are the two most popular online stores in the international platform. Given the near universal availability of Internet connectivity, consumers save [...]
Ode to Majuli
It’s a case of so near but yet so far. Majuli, the world’s largest inhabited Riverine Island and the seat of Vaishnavite culture, again failed to find a place in the World Heritage Site list of UNESCO much to the chagrin of the residents of the river island fighting with their backs against all odds [...]
A Rendezvous with the Mising Culture: Ali-A:ye Ligang
The other day my neighbour cum friend Aamir Pegu, originally from Majuli, the largest river island in the world, gave me two packets of cooked Bora saul (a type of sticky rice) wrapped in sweet smelling tokou leaves. The dish is called purang apin. The difference I found between Assamese bora saul and purang [...]
Manas Sojourn
“AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune- I myself am good fortune; Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Strong and content, I travel the open road.” (Walt Whitman) [...]
A day in The God’s Own Garden……..Mawlynong.
As the Diwali holidays were approaching, a nostalgic feeling started hovering my mind. So to escape from this feeling I thought the best option would be to plan an outing with my nearest family and they were none other than my roommates and my close friends. And so after a long session of brain storming [...]
Memories still remain
Assignments, Deadlines, Presentations and more assignments….welcome to the world of Mass Communication and Journalism and when we got tired of all the Assignments, the only thing that came to our mind was a day out from the Campus away from all the pressure and tension. Once decided we had to go come what may. Accordingly [...]
Where’s the Good Spot?
Exams over…..want to relax …..need a break from your daily dose of hectic work schedule at office …….Planning a picnic …..not yet decided with the spot…..distance is a cause of worry……. Don,t worry…. Team Wordsplash brings to you a list of Picnic spots……so choose one according to your convenience and GET SET GO! [...]
Picnic Manners
Yippee! The favorite season of kids, youth and the old alike are here. Winters are here friends. Be it sipping over a cup of tea with hot pokoras and chutney around a fire with near and dear ones or curling up under the blanket with your darling or just sleeping away to glory or the [...]
Welcome Break
The tagline of the famous coffee joint CAFÉ COFFEE DAY (more popularly known as CCD) “A lot can happen over coffee” has always fascinated me. But little did I know that plans can actually materialize over a cup of coffee……though for me it was not a cup of coffee but a cup of tea…… Yes! [...]
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