Previously assistant news editor @TheQuint. Also worked with @BangaloreMirror and @DeccanHerald. Interested in all things Southasian.
Jun 29 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Here is what is happening in my small hometown of Kurseong. The Kurseong municipal administration, which is currently headed by the sudivisonal officer ( SDO) as the administrator, issued a notice to 123 traders in Kurseong's Haat Baazar directing them to vacate their shops
within 15 days. As per the administration, the plot in Kurseong Mouza was transferred to the municipality by the Department of Land and Land Reforms, West Bengal govt, under a long-term lease in 2005. The notice has alleged " unauthorised occupation of govt land" and has warned
Jun 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
My family runs a homestay in the hills of Darjeeling and it goes without saying that we have to deal with all kinds of people. However, we have noticed some things that seem to be uniform behaviour for all Indians:
a) They will dirty the room, and not spare even the pillows,
because they have this thought at the back of their mind that someone is there to clean up after them. Of course, there are people to clean up their mess. But some basic cleanliness makes our job easier
b) Indian families just don't understand the concept of no. In hill stations
Jul 16, 2025 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
My father had booked a flat in Jadavpur, Kolkata, around the beginning of 2015. He made most of the payment (around Rs 25 lakh) in cash (it was from his gratuity money he earned working all his life as a teacher in a govt school). Being too simple-minded, he could not beleive
he would be deceived ever by anyone. Initally, the builder told us that it was a project being carried out by him alone. Around 2016, the builder took his own life since he swindled money from everyone. Later we got to know, there were other parnters invloved in the project.
Aug 4, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is a deeply personal post. For years, my mother's side of the family has been indebted in a way to Sheikh Hasina's family. Why? Because the PM's uncle Sheikh Abu Naser who was friends with my maternal grandfather is said to have played a role in ensuring my grandfather's
family's safe passage to India during the partition of India in 1947. Sheikh Abu Naser was said to have employed many Hindus in his businesses. My grandmum used to tell about how much my grandfather cried when he came to know his friend Sheikh Abu Naser was assassinated along
