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Category: Memoirs

Just one of those days when the travel stuff goes wrong

The day had started so well, but the travel mishaps came one after another. It was a bad travel day.

Gili Trewangan, The house in Eat Pray Love, the Lost Phone dance, travel blogger, travel mishaps, ubud

A Merry Assamese Christmas (repost)

Man, those Assamese really know how to party. Here’s something I’m reposting from a couple of years ago, fond memories … More

#christmas, Do the Assamese celebrate Christmas?, How Christmas is celebrated in the UK by Assamese, India

Memories of my father

Over half a century ago, a young man, my father Kamal Hazarika, sat at the back of a bus listening … More

Assam, assamese folk music, composer, India, Kamal Hazarika, Kundanlal Saigal, lyricist, music, Prafulla Barua, Sachin Dev Burman, senai moi jao dei, senai moi zao dei, Tagore

A Merry Assamese Christmas Day

Prologue: When I was a child in the 80s, families from Assam, a state in north east India, who had … More

#christmas, 80s, Assam, Assamese Christmas, diversity, India, Indian diaspora, integration, Life in 80s, London

The Childhood Adventures of Owning a Globe

On my seventh birthday my parents gave me a globe. My own spherical world of colourful landmasses and oceans, strung … More

adventures, Children, conservation, education, environment, Featured, globe, learning, maps, Travel, wanderlust, world

Miss Freeman’s woodwork class: the end of my days of mischief

It took a moment of brilliance from a school teacher to turn me around and push me on to the straight and narrow. Her name was Miss Freeman and she taught woodwork .

Children, education, Featured, Growing up, inspiration, inspiration-2, teachers, teaching

The Revenge of the Typo: How a Print Error Nearly Ended My Career

We all make typos don’t we? Of course we do, because we bloggers are human and proofreaders are luxuries. Nevertheless, … More

Experiences, typos, writing

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