A cruise in the North Atlantic which changed my understanding of the words – Exotic and Extravagance!
House Of Cards
Hail Fortissimo

Jordan Road – Look. That’s the name of my country up there” –Wali jumped up in excitement, from behind the wheels, pointing at the green signboard ahead, oblivious to the cars wheezing past left and right. A narrow dodge of a passing Merc, momentarily brought him back from his exhilarated state, only to be lost […]
Torontonian Tales

The month that was… As I write this at midnight, my loved ones are busy beating the heat and dust in the land of daytime. Tonight is special; I have completed a month in this land of nights (and knights in jacket and boots).This possibly is the farthest I could be from them while living […]
Island photoshoot for Calendar : 2015

Saying goodbye to the Andaman islands of Bay of Bengal was never easy. This tiny part of the world, surrounded by emerald waters, had become my whole world for a week or so and I longed to call it my home for the entire year. In my attempt to fulfill my wish, I presented myself […]
Beauty Of The Terrific

The brown rudraksh rosary bead hung floppily from one of the blood-stained prongs of the dual-pronged metal stand resembling an over-sized tuning fork. A painted human skull lay at the base along with some wilted red hibiscus; forehead of the skull smeared in vermillion and ashes. Few burning pyres were visible indistinctly; the curly ashen […]
Knock On Wood

The silence in the mountain air was intermittently punctuated with the long and short bursts of the sustaining glissando every time the blades ripped back-and-forth across the axis of the wooden planks. As the rays of the late afternoon sun peered from the single window of the 20 feet-by-20 feet workshop, the scattered golden wooden […]
In Pursuit Of Colors

No bus, rented cars or two-wheelers were visible; not even a donkey or a mule! From where I stood, my destination looked to be miles away up a vertical mountainside, somewhere up in the clouds. The wispy grey haze, freefall of heavy drizzle accompanied by the turmoil of ominous clouds, obscuring vision, failed to challenge […]
My Totem

Each one of us have either a living, non-living or a dead entity in our life which is a symbolism of ourunique existence and quintessential to our growing up. Something like, what you call a Totem. I havelong thought about my own and have floundered for answers. Last evening the moment-of-truthsuddenly stumbled upon me as […]
About Me

Thank you for visiting my page. I am Soumy Majumdar from Kolkata, India (currently residing in Toronto, Canada), and this is a humble space I have created out of my love for story-telling. I am no writer; But I am also gripped by the constant fear that my stories might die an unnatural death if […]