After a gap of two years from our last trip to Kathmandu and Pokhara, we again went on a road trip. Apart from my wife and my elder son, this time our new companion was our nine-month-old infant. Depending on our stallion, the 2007-made Chevrolet and accompanying our younger kid, it was a little bit challenging for us. Though Kalimpong was on our bucket list for years, the trip never happened as it lies on a different route. We didn’t take any risk to offend our little angel. So we decided on a night halt in Coochbehar. The next day, we started our journey to Kalimpong via Siliguri only to have a glimpse of quaint Kurseong which we missed during the Darjeeling trip as we took Mongpo route to reach the queen of hills. We took the Rohini highway. After a drive of twists and turns, we reached Kurseong. We…
I reached my office, sweaty, bedraggled and in dire need of rear ends to kick. I owed my saintly mood to the soul-sucking, BP-raising,…
Ken Elswick was a retired archivist known to list stone-skipping as one of his many hobbies. He owned a labrador named ‘Future’ and held…
I was about to close my clinic when my mobile rang. It was from Raeni, my fiancée. “Khenan,” she said, “are you busy? Can…