Reminscing the village mud kitchen.......

We had this mud-plastered kitchen in our village house.......
On festivals o feasts, savories were prepared there........

Or for preparing foods like fish curries........

Sitting by the woodfire, and having conversation with my mother, helping her with preparing the snacks was one of my happy, nostalgic memories....
When it rained the joy was higher.....

Indian poverty............

Extreme population and poverty is scourge of India.....

I saw this scenario in Howrah, Kolkata.....

People taking naps in the median of noisy, dusty, crowded road just outside teh busiest railway station.....

Now wonder, diseases like tuberculosis never go way from India.....

Plum trees in Shillong.........

Shillong in the northeast corner of India has a cold climate...
Plums are abundant there.........
Saw plum trees in the yards of almost every house......

Train travel memories.......

While I was pursuing my PhD, I used travel a lot in trains....sometimes for 2 days continuously.....

To pass the time and monotony, I would carry fiction books with me......

Sometimes I would just watch the sceneries...

Or talk to people....

Visiting Ramachandi........

Its Ramachandi.........a tourist place in Odisha...

I had visited with my spouse when we had just married....
I remember the pleasant time by the bank, as we sipped tender coconut water, watching the water...
We used to study  a poem written about this place, as our our school curriculum...

I did not have a camera with me or I would have taken nice photos......

Hill top hiking in IIT Guwahati campus.......

There was this beautiful hill in the campus in IIT Guwahati..........we used to hike up the hill sometimes.,

It was such a spring day......

Beautiful blooms.....

Shady nooks.....

Offering nice views......

I can still remember the lush freshness...the aromatics fragrance emanating from the vegetation.......

At my first job place.......

It was the place of my first job...........Lovely Professional University,  Punjab.....

Beautiful campus..........