Shimla : where mother nature mesmerizes your senses!

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 Shimla : where mother nature mesmerizes your senses!

Does the road wind uphill all the way? Or the day's journey take the whole long day from morning to night? Or the fog comes and then moves on? While we walked in a soundless space with footsteps quiet and slow, silence fell like dews and we knew it had to be Shimla, the queen of hills, the abode of peace, the place of the lone trail. Shimla is the place where lush green forests and bubbling streams mingle with the emerald meadows, whispering breeze and eternal snows. It is where mother nature mesmerizes your senses.

Happy viewing.

Robin Banerjee
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It may sound funny!

158th Posting :

It may sound funny!

Let me admit that I have become lazier than ever before. Not that winter has made me so, nor even my preoccupations, but, for reasons that I myself do not know - I feel reluctant to do even the mundane tasks I am supposed to perform nowadays. I wonder if my 'old' age has started catching up or the environs or happenings around me are affecting my psyche.

I love penning down Bengali nonsense rhymes/poems with funny illustrations, I love taking photographs outdoor and I enjoy sketching and painting as well. I even love to shoot small documentaries on subjects that catch my attention. But, believe me, everything is stalled for the time being at my end. Well, let me take an honest attempt to put me back to the rails again.

Here are six (6) of my recent poems - funny or not-so-funny, nonsense or not-so--nonsense and a picture drawn with the help of  my computer 'mouse'.

Happy viewing.

Robin Banerjee.
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Dawn that welcomes the New Year!

157th Posting :

 Dawn that welcomes the New Year!

The first sunshine on the leaves and grass... the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers... the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the crawling insect... the first chirping of the birds ready to begin their song and flight... the moment when you first open your eyes after a deep night's sleep and wake up in the morning - you find your morning steals upon the light and you feel, it's beautiful, when the first dewy light breaks on the earth and the scented air breathes the cool freshness of the dawn. And it appears that the world before you is nothing short of paradise and how beautiful, glad, and buoyant is morning.

The pictures were taken by me in September 2014 at Kasauli (325 km from Delhi & 45 km from Shimla). Kasauli is a small hamlet in Himachal Pradesh, India. Please 'click' each individual picture to view its enlarged version.

Happy 2015.

Robin Banerjee
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