Soumya Mukherjee

Soumya Mukherjee is an alumnus of St Stephens College and Delhi School of Economics. He earns his daily bread by working for a PSU Insurance company, and lectures for peanuts. His other passions, family, friends, films, travel, food, trekking, wildlife, music, theater, and occasionally, writing. He has been published in many national newspapers of repute. He has published his first novel, Memories, a novella, hopefully, the first of his many books. He blogs as well.

June 26, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Travel & Food

Caught amidst Fierce Rain in Chail

With lightning flashes and thunder in the background taking shelter under the trees didn’t seem advisable. Anyway, we were reluctant to leave the track and enter the dark woods....

June 19, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Nemesis

Fears and karmas often catch up with us. Soumya shares a real-life incident, when rivals in hockey field, met as friends, years later. How were the worst fears of...

June 12, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

South India with its Polite People was a Pleasant Shock

Carefree and happy-go-lucky student days in Delhi came to an end when Soumya received an appointment letter. He had to report to the Madras office. He shares the juicy...

June 5, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Return of Gussy Fink Nottle

The principal of an international school has read my book and admired it greatly and has shared her opinion and appreciation of the book in particular and my writing...

May 29, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Confessions of a Tech Challenged Blogger

It’s worth noting that an author is an incurable multitasking addict – he is writing the blog, reading Fay Weldon, watching Anger Management on TV channel, has FB open...

May 15, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Literature, People, Place, Relationship & Lifestyle

Touching Lives

She wanted to marry a classmate from her business school, who was from a different community and working in another small town at the end of the country. They seemed...

May 1, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, Travel & Food

Cooped up in Kodaikanal

Continuing with the backpacking trip in the South of India in the last column, Soumya tells us about a trip to Kodaikanal, in the weekly column, exclusively for Different...

April 17, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor, Travel & Food

Mapless in Madras

The columnist and his young wife were next woken up at Kanyakumari, which was completely deserted and pitch dark, at about two in the morning, and the bus went...

April 10, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
People, Place, Travel & Food

An Amazing Experience

Is it possible that real life experiences replicate the ones that fictional heroes had in books? Soumya, relives some such moments, during a recent trip to England. Read more...

March 27, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humor

Giving out the Prizes

A new legislation made it mandatory to spend money on CSR. This excited the author and brought him back to his activist college days, before decades of selling to...

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