MoAnRa Travels

Enjoy our other Blogs -  MoAnRa Stories  |  MoAnRa Speaks Sunderbans By Moutushi Ghoshdeysarkar A very different landscape awaits, as one embarks on a journey to the Sunderbans . The trees seem like short stout all bones exposed giants wading through the waters to get you. People are not allowed to land on any of the islands other than the areas specified by the government. The fishermen die in huge numbers every year as the tiger makes a swift meal of them. The tigers here are said to be expert swimmers, agile and almost ghost like when they make a kill, along with being expert manipulators. A fishing boat was once picking up crabs from the sand banks ( which is illegal ) and they caught sight of a tiger. The tiger seemed to be uninterested and retreating to the jungle so the men continued. Almost in a jiffy the tiger pounced on one of them and dragged its prey into the jungle. So once you meet the tiger on land or in the waters close by, end of st...

Enjoy our other Blogs -  MoAnRa Stories  |  MoAnRa Speaks Kasheer and Kushir || Pahalgam   ||  Gulmarg By Moutushi Ghoshdeysarkar From the sweltering heat of Delhi we reached the wet and cold capital of Kashmir. It was nothing like the Meluhan Srinagar but a city just like any other in India. Cars and traffic jams and flyovers and ongoing construction work, all the same. But then came the mighty Jhelam in sight and the mightier mountains to frame its calm and serene nature which she portrays once on these flat lands. The Kashmir valley is about 100 kms wide and is at an average elevation of approximately 6000 feet. The Pir Panjal range (inner Himalayas with average elevation 16000 feet) surrounds it in the south and west (where we have the LOC with Pakistan). Gulmarg is on one of the shoulder’s of one of the peaks (Apharwat) on these ranges. The north eastern sides of the valley are flanked by the mighty Himalays. The Ama...