Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 11:04 AM
It's so strange that its just been 6 months since I had our first baby boy and I am already starting to forget what I did during my pregnancy and during the first 2 months post delivery. It feels more like a distant dream! Before I forget anymore I thought I should make quick entries of whatever knowledge I have gathered over last few months. Makes sense right?
At the moment it's all about solid food for me and my little peanut. It's just been a week that I started solids with him and...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 3:03 PM
I was bombarded with news feed on ‘Gay Pride walk’ on all my social media profile. It was difficult to miss the growing buzz on ‘Homosexuality’ in the Internet and choose to be ignorant about the subject. It was more like the ‘ripple effect’ but more profound. Curiosity dragged me to the parade ground on Hennepin Avenue in Downtown Minneapolis, dragging my husband with me to witness one of the most colorful parades that I had seen till date.
There...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 1:54 PM
Nandini Lahiri was visiting her parents in Assam for a month long vacation. Her father was a tea garden manager and had recently shifted in to a plush thirteen bedroom bungalow situated in Dibrugarh. Tea garden bungalows were built during the British rule in India and had innumerable legends attached to them. One of the most popular legend that did the rounds in Mr. Lahiri’s bungalow was that of a young Indian woman who had an affair with...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 3:07 AM
The year 2011 will be remembered for many a reason starting with the protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya to the natural disaster in Japan and to the recent protest by Anna Hazare in India. All this in less than four months and we still have a long way before we can bid adieu to this erratic year. It has been a ground-breaking year so far. India’s fight against its evils is the latest in line of people rising against oppressive rulers, rising food...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 7:44 PM
It all started with a small conversation with my father as a young girl of ten, on my way back to the boarding school. Dreading that a new semester would begin and so would my saga of love & hate with books. I chose to brush aside the thoughts of studies for a while and enjoy the mischievous wind that seeped in through the car’s window and softly played with my messy hair. Driving through the curvy roads of Assam was a treat in itself! Just...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 5:21 AM
While the weary sun quietly makes way for the blue cheek moon and while every single soul in the neighborhood takes to bed, I find myself wide awake. Amidst the murmuring darkness, beside my snoring spouse, I wait impatiently for the dawn to break. How do I express the emphatic and excruciating long wait for a mere game to begin. With just days to go, skipping heart beats and the brotherhood on social networks seem to be the order of the day. Everything...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 2:34 PM
As Spring waits patiently outside to burst in to my living room, I am reminded of the warm happy days gone-by. As the fleet of Geese swing across the moody sky, I am reminded of the days when I swung across the room in glory as I read the love notes. As the sparrows chirp across my deck, I am reminded of the days I would endlessly chirp away in to the digital desk. As the trees prepare to adorn new colors, I am reminded of the endless but colorful...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 6:39 PM
It took me some time to start liking the entire gamut of digital communication. I still remember the day when my best friend Lesley had sent me an email way back in the year 2000 - I was not particularly very happy with it. Initially I could neither comprehend her expressions nor her excitement. I thought I could not relate to my friend. I wanted to read a hand-written mail from her (which usually took weeks before it reached me).Often I miss the...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 11:08 PM
A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape ...
but a woman of strength kneels in prayer to keep her soul in shape...
To be a woman is the most difficult proposition probably tougher than being Obama or Hu Jintao. It has always been tough being a woman since the inception of human civilization. Women have always played a critical role in the development of a Kingdom/State/Country - may it be Mariam-uz-Zamani (also Known as Jodha...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 12:42 AM
I was born in a dynamic state called ‘Nagaland’ and it was my abode - my home. Home - where I would come to find my mother cook delicious delicacies, where I was surrounded by my friends, where I always ran away from our two gigantic German Shepard but spoke endlessly to my bunny friend and would spend hours wondering ‘Why doesn't my red nose parrot utter a word?’ also loved every time our dog hunted down our irritating neighbour’s chicken! Home...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 6:19 PM
Social Media is truly the next big thing....some years back my life on the world wide web was just Google, Gmail, Gtalk and slowly it advanced to Orkut then to Facebook...so much so I have learnt more from Faceboook than the Google search engine as a matter of fact I am continuously exchanging ideas discussing different hobbies, social activities more than ever...such is the development that I feel that each day we are shifting our life in to the...
Posted by RITA MAJUMDAR (Rita Chowdhury)
On 3:40 PM
The world wide web is thriving with innumerable sites on travel, tourism, ‘must visit’ destination, honeymoon destination, family vacation spots among others. And it is certain, we are not bored of them and neither will we ever get bored of travel blogs or sites. It is a basic nature of every human being to keep exploring new places. Thus our fingers keeps clicking on the keyboard in quest to find a place that no one has ever heard of or been...
