NORTHEAST NOTEPAD: One of the things I am attracted to in any city, town or village is the film posters. It has a lot to do with my childhood surrounding. One, Chennai, erstwhile Madras, was renowned for posters and cutouts of politicians and filmstars. Secondly, my neighbour (Kanagasabhai) was in the business of pasting posters of Tamil and English films on city walls and political election meeting schedules. Strangely, this gentleman was associated with a leading DMK leader's family, but jolly well undertaken pasting posters for Congress, the main rival party in late 1960s and early 1970s. Late MGR was still DMK at that time.
NORTHEAST NOTEPAD: Lonely at the top only? No.Even at the pyramid's bottom. This elderly carpenter, Parmanand Sahai, has arrived at this spot like any other day, scouting for business. He's confident, he would be gainfully employed for the day like any other day. Be patient. Why sitting alone and not with other masons and carpenters a few hundred yards away? "Did I enter this world in group? Or am I going to leave this world in group?" asks he rhetorically.
NORTHEAST NOTEPAD: Siri Kitika Dass, in a remote Kamrup village, refuses to reveal her age. "You want to marry me? .... Or you want me as your daughter in law, Chachu?," asks she boldly while trying to restrain six month old calf that is running helter-skelter and keen that it should also appear in this photo frame in vain.
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