Monthly Archives: March 2011

  Chandna Mandal reciting Tagore’s poem Prabasi in the Sunderbans Click below to see the recitation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF1SeoCxNHM The dumb earth looks into my face, and Spreads the arms about me, At night, the fingers of the stars touch my dream … Continue reading →

Shantiniketan This word  has a special meaning for any Bengali, or for an unabashed  Banglaphile, as I am. ( I can  understand Bangla fully, speak enough to hold a basic conversation,  and  even read the script haltingly).   I thus … Continue reading →

I was on a work break in Kolkata,  to attend three Board meetings  of CTRAN,  our energy and environment services company, www.ctranconsulting.com ;   of IGS, our action research company www.igsindia.org.in ;    and of The Livelihood School, meant for training livelihood promotion practitioners and policymakers … Continue reading →

Sunderbans literally means “beautiful forests”, and the word evokes the images of Royal Bengal Tigers,  cobras and pythons and dense mangrove forests, criss-crossed by the “mouths of the Ganges”, as the island strewn delta of this mighty river is called. … Continue reading →