Tag Archives: Chowrastra

Monkeyfear

The day before Venu was to leave Darjeeling and head back to Nepal we met for lunch in Chowrastra. I wanted to send a few things to some pals in Nepal and proof that I was in Darjeeling and that, yes, marriage plans were going ahead as planned.
It’d been a month since I’d seen any [...]

Strangers

Yesterday I was walking in Chowrastra, the tourist area of Darjeeling. I had just gone by a small, private studio where I’d left some black and white film to be processed, or rather just the negatives.
The photo processing places don’t print black and white, so I searched out a fellow who had a small darkroom [...]