Somewhere between the winter fields of Bengal and the frozen lakes of Boston, a little piece of winter learnt to travel. The first thing Tushar learnt about ice was that it had a sound. It was not the crack of a branch beneath a foot or the brittle snap of a dried leaf, but a…
Tag: Chinsurah
Haunting Howls of Hanabari
About forty-kilometres north of the city of Kolkata on the west bank of the two-hundred-sixty-kilometres-long river Bhāgirathi-Hooghly, a distributary of the mighty Ganges in the state of West Bengal in India lies a once important port town during the pre-colonial times, the ancient borough of Hooghly-Chinsurah city. Hooghly was founded right after the decline of…
