Calling All Poets of the North-East of India! Are you a poet from the Indian States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, or Tripura? If you are, and if you write poems in English (or, if there
In Praise of Creativity – SUMMERSALT
Meeting former colleagues, especially the like-minded, is always a pleasure. In the second week of my vacation here at the hill-station of Shillong in North-East India, I was delighted when Mr. Kit Shangpliang, a colleague from a decade and a
Voluntourism With A Difference – Combine Altruism and Adventure
Looking for an opportunity to combine a vacation with some good deeds? Here’s a project that combines altruism and adventure – and, as an added bonus, there’s a tax discount in it as well! I am looking for volunteers to
Coming Home Again to Shillong*
From under the warm, clumpy quilt, I’m awoken before dawn’s first blush, By birds’ twittering; thunder growling; The wind wailing through the pine trees; And flashes of lightning over the hill top. But, under it all, the stillness and serenity
Finding Common Ground
I have often been asked (by would-be readers, of course) what my books are about. At the same time, those who have read my books have told me that none of my books are the same – that they are