An overloaded bus on a country road with some passengers travelling on the roof of the bus…

Water colour sketch of an old farmer tending to his cow…

Women washing utensils in a village courtyard…

অমল ধবল পালে লেগেছে মন্দ মধুর হাওয়া…

A honeyed and gentle breeze touched the pure whiteness of the sails.
Never have I seen such a sailing of a boat…..

A peaceful afternoon by the river…

Sketching tools: Rotring Isograph Drawing Ink (Schwarz Black) in Pilot V5 Hi-Tecpoint Roller Ball Pen and Camlin Water Colour paints.

A paddy farmer scattering seeds….

Sketching tools: Pilot V7 Hi-Tecpoint pen, Faber-Castell colour pencils, Staedtler Mars Micro 0.9 mm mechanical pencil.

Sketching tools: Pilot V7 Hi-tecpoint Roller Ball pens and Faber Castell coloured pencils

Old age….our play’s last act….

Sunday morning’s sojourn to the library….

At the bus stand….There were no buses while a few auto-rickshaws were waiting for commuters…

The Bengalis, their tea and gossip sessions….

An adda or chat session — those seemingly endless informal conversations that are a legacy of the Bengalis. Sometimes, they take the form of a debate or brainstorming sessions in which anything and everything under the sun is discussed.

Almost four months after trams were taken off the tracks due to the coronavirus lockdown, services between Gariahat and Dharmatala have recently resumed. However, trams are running almost empty.

A man carries a pile of coloured cloths on his shoulders….

Yet another street scene…

…with a man sitting atop a small goods vehicle….

at your doorstep.

“Procter & Gamble executives say it was striking the first time they witnessed a man shave while sitting barefoot on the floor in a tiny hut in India.

He had no electricity, no running water and no mirror.

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“That, for me, was a big ‘a-ha,'” said Alberto Carvalho, vice president, global Gillette, a unit of P&G. “I had never seen people shaving like that.”     [Source: NDTV.com]

But if you want to save yourself from the trouble, there’s the roadside barber. The service is inexpensive and you may not have to wait for long. Sometimes, you do have another barber on the reserve bench!

After a clean shave, a scalp massage…

Sometimes a wholesale market caters to only a few items. These are often a weekly event. Here the farmers are selling pulses, lentils, peanuts….

With noon approaching, the heat appears unbearable. The old man covers his head with a piece of gamchha, a thin cotton towel used for bathing. His wife helps him though.

Drawn with a Pilot V7 Hi-Tecpoint Black pen, Faber-Castell coloured pencils on ordinary cartridge paper.