Sikkim

We are really tired, carrying equipment, flight's delayed and as we enter Sikkim, this is one image, I will always remember. Father and daughter on a bike.

Teesta

First picture: What's happening to the river, near Kalijhora. Tunnels being dug for the "run-of-the-river" project. This is the North Bengal side. ( Mukut is on the shoot)

(Second picture) The Teesta from Sevoke Road.

Bagdogra

On our way to Sikkim from Bagdogra. Was raining when we landed. It's always lovely to be in Bagdogra and in North Bengal (my first airport)

Sikkim

Back from North Sikkim. We were in the Dzongu area on a shoot. We went inside the core zone of the Kanchanjunga National Park and Biodiversity Reserve. Chased by the police, hiding tapes, hiding along the Teesta, an experience like never before. Photographs, photographs, photographs. Will upload. Will write. But after uplinking reports.

Sunday

Day after the blasts, life on a Sunday, goes on "lahey, lahey". On my way to office, I met the Chinese athletes. They've come for the Grand Prix event and are staying in this hotel. Everyone smiling and everyone happy to be here.

My office on a good day has a maximum of 4 people. It's empty today. I am here, on news duty, waiting if anything happens. I can see the Guwahati High Court from my office. It's cloudy and one can see the blue hills at a distance. It's a nice and easy beautiful Sunday. But like it happens, mostly, with the rest of the planet, Sunday here is also a "slow news day". (Click on the photograph.)

As the crow flies, this place is supposed to be closer to Hanoi than to New Delhi. The Northeast is "part of a great tropical rainforest that stretches from the foothills of the Himalayas to the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula and the mouth of the Mekong river as it flows into the Gulf of Tonkin" //Strangers of the Mist

Blast

Five people were killed and 15 others injured when a bomb exploded in front of a mosque situated near a commercial area in Guwahati. The Asian Athletics Grand Prix starts here today. The bomb was hidden in a cycle. It went off at 7.30 am killing four on the spot. Among the dead were two children who were at the vegetable market at the time of the explosion. Rupam uplinked shots.

Assamese Thali

Paradise Hotel , Rs 80/-

Superb!

ps: for onion salad, extra rs 15