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Articles with tag: Esfahan

Monar Jomban (part 3 of 4)

Manali Chakrabarti   Mar 22, 2007   interacts: 3

I have started distinguishing the girls now – all in their late teens and two of them obviously sisters. The two sisters are also the most vocal in gestures and words, very beautiful but in a loud sort of way – blood red glossy lips, mascaraed

Monar Jomban (part 2 of 4)

Manali Chakrabarti   Mar 14, 2007   interacts: 6

We were out to buy Gaz (the traditional sweet of these parts, a delicate white chocolate made with sugar and eggs and some other mysterious ingredients), and we were directed to this 100 year old Gaz factory at the Western entrance of the square. There w

Monar Jomban (part 1 of 4)

Manali Chakrabarti   Mar 9, 2007   interacts: 8

“Esfahan what can I write about you which has not been written before.” I quote a forgotten writer who was apparently jailed and then killed, perhaps for his writings. He was an Esfahani. I am not- but I realise that big cities and old ones, h

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