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Asia » India » Assam » Digboi December 12th 2009

I'm back! In case some of you haven't noticed, this writing has become like a therapy for me, so if you're not that interested in being part of my therapy, I'll understand if you want to un-subscribe, or just ignore those messages that arrive in your inbox, informing you I want some attention. I wonder sometimes if this is a blog about a trip, or the blog is the trip. Or am I the trip. Certainly can be trippy. Sometimes feel as though I am tripping!~ On the other hand, some of you may not get email at all if it wasn't for me, so hope you enjoy it, and stick with me. Digboi is an oil town, the oldest oilfield in the world at 108 years. Indian Oil decided to create a nature reserve out ... read more
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Asia » India » Assam » Digboi August 3rd 2008

Stilwell Road: A Trip to Amazing US Army Achievement Partha De Sarkar I closed my eyes sitting in Indian Airlines’ flight IC 701 to Dibrugarh from Calcutta. We were going to Stilwell Road that is within Indian side. I shut my eyes not to sleep but to take me back to Pangsau Pass on the Indo-Myanamar (Burma) border. I could hear US Army jeeps and trucks with trailer carrying field guns rolling by and descending into Burma. Time machine had taken me back 60 years into 1942-45 period. Japanese army was playing havoc in China and Burma. Royal Air Force and US Army Air Force were crossing “ the Hump” daily with supplies of guns and ammunitions, rations, medicines and whatever could assist the Chinese under Chiang Kai-shek to fight the yellow perils. But it was ... read more
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