Random thoughts at the end of 2014

Another year is coming to an end but I can't get over the senselessness of much that happened in the year. 

Munin Barkataki award 2014

GUWAHATI, Dec 27 2014 – The Munin Barkataki Memorial Trust has announced the ‘Munin Barkataki Award’ for ther year 2014. This year the award has been given jointly to Tulika Saikia for her novel Charixal Gosanir Tez and Dibyajyoti Bora for his poetry collection Topani respectively. The awards will be presented in a special function as a part of the Birth Centenary Celebration of Munin Barkataki to be held on February 28, 2015. 

Chilean Flavours

A description of a wedding in Chile between a Chilean with long dark hair and a German blonde on crutches, and much more...

The fact that the wedding was going to be in Chile in early December, in the beginning of summer there, was already something special. Having to look for summer clothes to take along before leaving shivering cold Germany felt a little weird. But it seemed a pleasant thought to be able to have a few warm summer days even in the middle of  'our' winter.

Landing in Chile reminded me of how different the whole country looked from the other places I knew -- vast empty spaces with gorgeous landscapes and colours in between densely populated cities. No matter where one was, one did not need to go far to get a view of the snow-capped Andes in one direction and the rising waves of the Pacific on the other. This country has it all from semi-equatorial deserts and tropical areas in the north, through idyllic temperate zones to the Patagonian ice fields of the Antarctic south...