April 2021 - Bengali Nomad

Murshidabad … Beginning of colonial era for 200 years

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:April 6, 2021
Post category:Asia 🌏India 🇮🇳travel

🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 The year is pretty unique in many ways . Corona , national lockdown ,travel chaos and daily changing travel rules all these make travel extremely difficult . Still on 12th Dec after lockdown was briefly lifted I decided to travel to India as planned . After spending few weeks at home and binging on biryanis , I decided to travel somewhere. Murshidabad was a good option so I booked a ticket to from Kolkata station on a Friday morning. The journey was comfortable for about 4 hours . I…

Khirai – Valley of flowers

Post author:bengalinomad
Post published:April 6, 2021
Post category:Asia 🌏City Family / Leisure India 🇮🇳travel

🇮🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 Khirai, a sleepy station next to Panskura Junction is known as Bengal Valley of flowers. Though most of flower cultivation happens few miles down near Dokanda village at lower reaches of Kansai river. A nice day-out . It was sad to see that some farmers were destroying their own corps . Spoke to one and he told me that even the cost of transportation is more then what it would fetch in wholesale market.