Ducky jump in the Thames and BAFTA Television Awards

After long time I am writing on this blog( possibly after a month and half). I was quite busy with one after another essays related to my MA Development and Rights programme. In the meantime, I had written some articles on issues related to India & other current affairs stuff on my other blog. I … Continue reading →

SantaCon to Santarchy: Madness at Trafalgar Sqaure

Follow me on twitter@adilhossain Sorry that I have not blogged since long but I promise that from now on I will regularly post about my life here in London. Believe me London is full of surprises and for an Indian village guy like me, everything always seems to be the first time. So here I … Continue reading →

Karl Marx walk in London

I am a resident of West Bengal in India, a state which had been ruled until recently by the Communist Party of India(Marxist) for continuously 33 years, a record of sort by any Communist government in the world. The debates and discussions around the philosophy of Karl Marx has always been there in my state and our generation had grown up … Continue reading →

Rickshaws of London

I can see transformations everywhere these days. In my life, in my world view and so in some objects with which I used to identify certain words. May be the use of the word ‘transformation’ is wrong here as the object I am talking about might be there in its true shape since the beginning. … Continue reading →

Obey Sound and Vision

Some years back famous contemporary Bengali author Buddhadeb Guha in a letter to me recommended that I must read a book called “Lust for Life” by Irving Stone. This was a biography on the painful life of great post-impressionist dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh who is famous for paintings like “Sunflowers“, “The Starry Night” and many more. I … Continue reading →

Unusual sight of fox in London

  Well, first of all may be its not unusual to many but for me it is.  And there are certain reasons for that. I basically hail from the northern part of West Bengal in India which is close to the Himalayan mountain range but still it is identified as a plain area. The Himalayan … Continue reading →

Durgapuja in London

Before coming to London, through media and my friends I always knew that London is a cosmopolitan and multicultural city where people from every part of the world have settled. They speak in many languages, they celebrate their respective festivals, they have their own food habits and in this way they sustain their culture or … Continue reading →