Musings

Born in India and growing up with three languages, a questioning mind, the writer was conscious of observations from childhood days that the world was rapidly changing around him, generally due to human intrusion into nature, and that this might be leading to a stage where there might be no nature left. Would man exist sans nature. Could man ?


The author spent the first years of his working life sailing around the world as an engineer on ocean going freighters. His first shore job was in Hong Kong, a thriving eastern metropolis. Life’s ebb and flow took him some years later to Miami Florida and then on to British Columbia, Canada.


He ha always been a prolific writer, mostly in two languages - Bengali and English, in letters, essays, poems, satire, and the like. An early convert to programmable calculators and onto home computer through an Apple II, he moved on to writing in bulletin boards on the internet in the early 1990s using a dial up connection while in Hong Kong. He created over 240 audio podcasts in Bengali before tiring of it, created a bulletin board, a few blog sites and dabbled in book writing - both as fiction and non-fiction without taking the next step - looking for a Publisher.


As he grew older, he got socially active, first about issues of his home country, India, and later about his adopted residence and nationality - Canada.


This book is a collection of blogs written in Canada. Some of them are sort of a novel, an ongoing saga between an younger version of himself - an immigrant from India, and a local Canadian young woman. But instead of being a romance novel, the writings mostly turned out to be a pensive and talkative young man pondering the future of mankind, our evolutionary and geological history, interrupted occasionally by a quieter and attentive young woman in a relationship with the guy.


Being an avid nature and bird photographer, he could not help adding his own photos in this book.


This book comprises most of writings created in the early months of 2012.