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It was almost 2 in the night. I reached Kamakhya temple. I was in Guwahati to cover Ambubachi Mela, a great religious fair of Assam. It is the most important festival of kamakhya temple of Guwahati and is held every year in the month of June. I was surprised to see the devotees. I mean it was raining the entire day and night, and devotees were sitting and waiting for their turn to enter the temple. They did not have any problem.  It was the first time when I was seeing these ritual activities. When I asked a Baba that why you are seating in this rain, go and sit somewhere else, he replied “ बारिश कहाँ हो रही बेटा , मैं तो बिलकुल भी नहीं भीगा | ऊपर देखो आसमान कितना साफ़ है , ऐसा लग रहा माँ कामख्या ऊपर से आशीर्वाद दे रही हम सबको ”| (Son, Look at the sky. It is clear and it’s not raining. I am not wet. It seems that Goddess Kamakhya is blessing us). I was speechless at that time. I was walking throughout there and was shocked to see that in spite of heavy...

I have been traveling in Jharkhand and West Bengal for my work from the last few days. Well yes, I am a Nomad and whenever I get time, I try to explore the nearby places. I finished my work in Pakur and reached Kolkata on the same day. My train for Delhi is at 4:50pm so now I have 8 hours in hand, 8 hours in Kolkata, 8 hours in the city of joy. What should I do? I started making my plans. Should I go for street photography…? Naah…I have already done that so many times. Then What? Esplanade…Zoo…Victoria Memorial…Confused…one of my friend is in Kolkata so I preferred to ask her. Haunted places, this is the word that I heard from her mouth. Haunted places? Like seriously, there are no any haunted places in Kolkata. Yes there are..and here she got my attention. My uncle lives in Kolkata so I have been in the city of joy so many times. I never knew that Kolkata has any haunted areas or places. So this information made my day. I gathered all the information and started walking towards ...

How would you react when you suddenly get to know that you are going to the place which you always wanted to visit? I have already visited Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and some part of Meghalaya before but couldn’t get chance to visit Sikkim. I had heard and read so many things about Sikkim and was just waiting for the right time to explore this place. But unfortunately, this particular ‘Right time’ took a long time to come. Ok, let me take you to a little flashback. After completing my post graduation from Rajasthan and spending almost a month in Delhi, I reached my home town, Motihari. In the month of May or June only, I had applied in Central University of Sikkim for M.Phil but was not sure about my application status i.e. selected or not and very frankly, I forgot about it. After spending almost 15 days at home, I started getting bored but it was quite tough to escape because I was there after a long time. One day, I got a mail. No, it was not only mail; actually it was a fantastic s...