IN SEARCH LUGU_BURU. I get a free weekend from today as my wife and kids take a Durga-Pooja shopping holiday to Kolkata. Me, without wanting to waste the weekend decide to explore ONE OF THE OLDEST AND HOLIEST OF HOLY PLACES OF WORSHIP IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, much older than Ajodhya, Jerusalem or Mecca. […]
Nowadays, I don’t search for history, rather History (and dilapidated buildings) searches me out. Today’s boring evening, as I rode out on “Faith” and landed up inconspicuously at the Bardhaman Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital.
PART 1 : PLANNING AND ROUTE. On 10 September 2017 (Sunday), I decide to explore the district of Hoogly in some details with my sight set at a quaint little village called Sukharia. Enroute, I intend to explore two more small towns, Memari and Pandua. The quaint little village of Sukharia, located next to the […]
Part 1 On 03 September, Sunday, I decide to explore “Gongoni Garbeta”, the Grand canyon of Bengal. Part 2: The Journey Part 3: Gongoni … The Canyon. Bokasur er Gooha (Bakasur’s cave), the place where the ill famed Asoor (maybe some innocent big Santhal) used to hide and eat the villagers’ food … Till […]
গিন্নি কর্মসূত্রে গেছেন দিল্লি দিন পনেরোর জন্যে, অতয়েব ছানাপোনাদের ব্রেকফাস্ট, লাঞ্চ, ডিনার, পড়াশোনার গুরুদায়িত্ব এই শর্মার জিম্মায় | সকাল বেলা মুরগি, রাত্তিরে চাওমিন , আর তারই মধ্যে তৃতীয় ভাষা বাংলায় কচিকাঁচাদের ওস্তাদ করে তোলার চাপে দাদা নাজেহাল| এরই মাঝে হটাৎ এসে পড়লো ..পড়ে পাওয়া রোববার, প্রত্যেকবারের মতোই সকাল সাড়ে চারটাতে উঠে পড়েছি একটু মোটরসাইকেল নিয়ে […]
I tried a new method of Storytelling, for the first time … In the form of a VIDEO with My PICS, My WORDS and some MUSIC, showcasing #TheBandOfBrothers latest Motorcycle journey to KINNAUR – LAHAUL – SPITI. I think I won’t disappoint you. (Please see on full-screen and if possible with a headphone for full […]
We start the journey on this gastronomic route early in the morning from home in Panagarh and includes the plan to drop our children Khushi and Bullet to their Grandparents in Kolkata while we continue with our motorcycle sojourn. The intention was to cover 3 districts today; BARDHAMAN, HUGLY and HAORA. As usual, NH2 was […]
The road hungry Motorcycles can’t sit still for a day, so this afternoon, I had set out for Garh Jungle, within the Ramnabagan Wildlife Sanctuary, situated on the Eastern end of Durgapur, in search of THE OLDEST SURVIVING REMAINS OF DURGAPUJA ever carried out in India, and attaboy, I was welcome surprised. Jewels remain hidden […]
On a lazy afternoon, I had taken out my motorcycle and was on my way of just enjoying some jungle roads … made friends with a few children enroute who directed me to PANDU RAJAR DHIBI, one of the most interesting archeological sites of Bengal. This is located in Village Panduk, Ausgram II Block in […]
This Sunday, along with a few close friends associated with our Motorcyclist Social Initiative DINER BELAY HEADLIGHT, we decided to ride to the destination of PANCHET dam and the ancient ruins of GARHPANCHKOTE. Its about a 248 km turnaround from my home; enough for a Sunday morning ride. There were total of four of us […]