British Indian -Colour and Line
It was a pleasant surprise to hear from Natasha, more so, to have her stay with us overnight, here in ‘Aseem Cottage’. Yes, it…
From Boulders to Peels
I like sculpting stone; a hobbyist, not a sculptor so to speak. Long ago, Javed, the artist, procured me a piece of stone from…
Time Wheels of Buarani
Back home in Dharamshala from Denmark in 1983, I had an urge to build a cottage in Dalhousie. With exposure abroad; brimming with ideas, I…
Antiquities In The Lake
Govind Sagar Lake rose, giving birth to the “temple of modern India”. Inhabited, today, on the bank of river Sutlej, Bilaspur- a town of…
Chander Guddu’s – Couplets
Through my messed up paper work I came across a few couplets; scribbled in Hindi, perhaps, decades back. In an effort to recreate the…
‘Light’ in Shambles
The Freemasons Lodge, ‘Light of the North 1308 E.C.’, Dalhousie, District, Chamba, Himachal Pradesh is one of the early lodges brought to India by…
Chander Guddu’s – I cannot say
My younger days expressions in Hindi poem ‘Keh na Sake Hum’ remade into English make this poem happen. The comments through the AI are…
DO NOT BITE THE BAIT
Locals bounced off the walls calling out “Rainbow… Rainbow” when I hooked a trout. To be true; I had no choice between Rainbow and…
IN GOD WE TRUST
Way back in 1983; across my room in the ‘Haslav* Technicum’, stayed a Danish boarder. The nest egg on his table caught my attention….
PHILATELY: KING OF HOBBIES
Poking around the family archives, I happened to come across a bundle of philatelic material- waiting, perhaps, for my attention. I am carried on…