Memories of Another Day (Hardcover)

'Memories of Another Day' is a collection of prose pieces, memoirs, travelogues and fictions. Though the memoirs and travelogues are author's personal accounts, it would remind the readers of the happy and sad moments of their own lives. The travelogues would take the readers to the civilization and culture of many countries around the world at different times; expressed in simple narration. A partial Mughal Empire is described in 'Delhi Revisited', 'The Moor's Last Sigh' is a lamenting pathos of the Moorish empire, which ruled most of Spain for nearly eight hundred years; 'The Land of the Arabian Nights' gives us an insight into the ancient Mesopotamian and Babylonian as well as early Islamic civilizations, some of the oldest in the world. Similarly, 'Cape of Good Hope' tells us the tragic history of subjugation of the black people in South Africa for centuries and a relatively modern picture of Nepalese experience is seen in the 'The Memories of the Everest Country'. In addition, spooky story on the voodoo girl, a satire coupled with strong patriotic feelings on Bangladesh, haunting ghazals and shers of the immortal poet Mirza Ghalib, the incredible and the out-of-the-world music of A R Rahman, the passion for the game of Cricket, and the tragic memoir on the author's wife: all are accounted here to add some dimensions to the book. It is an honest effort by someone who belongs to a different profession, other than writing.