By Kanchan Gupta There are fond memories that we cherish and nurse, often recalling them to relive memorable moments of our past. And there are bad memories that remind us of events we wish had never occurred, memories that we want to erase from our minds but more often than not are unable to do [...]

Kanchan Gupta narrates his ‘exhilarating experience’ while at Darjeeling along the Teesta River.

The dusty plains of north India rarely experience what is taken for granted in Bengal — here it rains (if at all), there it pours (often for days and nights on end). Here a strange, eerie silence descends on a rainy night, there you are lulled into languorous sleep by the sound of crickets and the drone of croaking frogs…