deborshi chaki's blog from IBNLive.com http://www.ibnlive.com/index.html Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:56:13 +0100 IBNLive.com http://www.ibnlive.com/pix/common/ibnlogo.jpg http://www.ibnlive.com/index.html Feed provided by IBNLive. http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1386/hazaron-khawaishen-kaisi-.html Meeting Kanu Sanyal of the erstwhile Naxalbari movement can be a revelation for some. Especially in the times….. When much of the education on revolution is derived from secondary sources editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:34:30 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/2542/alive-and-punching-in-the-land-of-bahadurs-reloaded.html I had written this post almost two years. And I felt that in the midst of the Prashant Tamang -RJ Nitin controversy this one finds some relevance again. But this editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:04:09 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/207/a-grave-war-story-in-kohima.html Death is a powerful equalizer. Kohima war cemetery is one of the most powerful reminders of this fact as you wander among graves thinking of men who died fighting each editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:13:42 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1288/memories-of-bright-posteriors.html If you are in Car Nicobar I suggest you listen to the sea at night. May be count the waves as you lay waiting for sleep. Each wave defined editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:21:30 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/419/close-encounters-of-the-wild-kind-in-northeast.html Ignorance is bliss....alright ... a cliche that you perhaps heard 'N'times back in school but sometimes you just have to learn it again the hard way. Learn we did few editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 27 Dec 2005 02:46:03 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1914/the-presidential-circus.html Must admit that I have never spent much thought on the Presidential elections ever! Having read in class eight civics text books that in the Indian democracy the role of editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:46:43 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/999/random-rambling-on-kolkata-calling.html I am still reeling under the effect of Calcutta..Oops Kolkata. It was absolutely amazing this time, especially for a 'bangali baccha' like 'yours truly' who has grown on up on editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:48:44 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/990/clear-and-present-danger.html The latest strike by Maoist at Kakarvitta in Nepal was just a few kilometers away from Siliguri in North Bengal. Clearly the theater has shifted much nearer to India. Not editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:36:09 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/77/a-lucky-escape.html Yours truly is thanking his stars! Lucky escape yesterday or should I say providential. As soon as the blast happened in Guwahati yesterday, we rushed to the spot like most editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:04:30 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/110/monks-who-want-to-buy-ferraris.html "You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Bhagavad Gita." - Swami Vivekananda And monks in Thailand readily agree Was pretty amused to editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:12:20 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/2518/prachandas-little-war.html Around the same time a year ago I was in Nepal. The idea was to get a first hand insight into the mind of Nepal's Maoist ideologue, the then 'enigmatic' editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:56:54 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/351/solving-the-chinese-puzzle.html Notwithstanding the euphoria over the thaw in Sino-Indian ties, marked among other things by the prospective opening up of the Nathula trade route, trade diplomacy has not been without its editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:27:32 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1154/the-battle-of-aberdeen.html Sitting by the stairs of Port Blair's Cellular jail many thoughts cross your mind... what kind of men were they who left their lands and spent their lives in those editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:38:45 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/353/simply-gangabardhan.html If you have ever lived in the times of of che bandana.. guitar chai and waited for the revolution you may like him.I never lived in such times but liked editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:36:15 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1162/beyond-the-vertical-limits.html Finally on celluloid... something that has fascinated me for long; the story of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine and their 'Everest' expeditions. They disappeared close to the Everest summit in editor@ibnlive.com Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:57:21 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/371/to-machang-lalung-with-love.html Machang Lalung is a rich man now. He lives in a remote village of Assam and is a celebrity in his own way. For the uninitiated let me editor@ibnlive.com Mon, 09 Jan 2006 08:12:39 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1771/caught-in-crossfire.html Right now my thoughts are controlled by a visit to Mrs Saha's home in downtown Guwahati. A two room dingy apartment enjoined to the busy streets by narrow filthy lanes. editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:18:32 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/2651/inside-the-glass-palace.html The Present ----------------- The first thought that possibly confronts any journalist looking to do stories from Myanmar is the question of getting inside. The ruling regime of Myanmar editor@ibnlive.com Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:39:20 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/154/heat-mountains-and-other-thoughts.html I can truly relate to the agonies of those reeling under the simmering heat of North India summer. The first time I came to Delhi I did not like it editor@ibnlive.com Sun, 07 May 2006 10:09:29 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/973/yeh-jo-hain-jindagi.html This is a mail that a childhood friend wrote sometime back to your's truly. Some of you may relate to... what he has to say... When gulli-danda and kanche editor@ibnlive.com Thu, 05 Jan 2006 08:10:46 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/1014/killjoys-monologues.html Judgment day at last! And the moment of retribution! Pleasure is mine and probably of agonized 'man' kind that has seen spurns and humiliation in college corridors, office cubicles, neighborhood editor@ibnlive.com Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:20:12 +0530 http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/deborshichaki/187/396/alive-and-punching-in-the-land-of-bahadurs.html Alive and punching in the land of Bahadurs! I write this piece with much apprehension. If Prashant Pakhrin happens to see the title of this blog he will editor@ibnlive.com Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:46:34 +0530