Name
Jayeeta Ghorai
City
UK
Country
UK
Interests
Occupation
Joined TOI Contributor
12th May 2014
Biography
Jayeeta has an MA in English, and is a trained Instructional Designer. After years of working in the corporate sector as a Learning & Development professional, she has made a career switch to academics and writing. Presently a student of Modern Languages in the University of Leeds, she contributes to journals and ezines worldwide. Jayeeta writes a visual media appreciation column, 'A-muse-ment' in 'Mirrorfect', is Creative Non-Fiction Editor with 'The Atticus Review' penning literary and reflective essays.
Topics
Visual media
Social causes
gender
Diversity
Cultures and traditions
Children and education
animal rights
Articles posted By Jayeeta Ghorai (TOI Contributor)
The Yorkshire Evening Post of 2nd June 1916 carried an obituary titled – “Leeds “Pals” lose an Indian Comrade. Private Sen is killed in Action.”
When the leaves begin to display autumn colours in Rhode Island, Subhash Mitra could sense in them "vivid hues of cayenne and turmeric and ginger pounded fresh" that his mother used to season the food.
Neighbourliness has a different definition in foreign shores, perhaps why it is hard to pick out and unrecognizable to us.
Exploring Indian academician,historians and Indian literature in western library.
There are two regular faces at my local store's till who I am particularly fond of. Greeted with the usual "You alright?", Clare bubbles into a long incomprehensive paragraph; I put up my widest Cheshire Cat grin in exchange.
One of the domestic habits we have slowly begun to forego the world over is this inconspicuous sharing of our daily nutrition as a family.
Diversity makes the Indian culture rich, but our pride in this often turns to consternation.
"Wonderland", the popular culture magazine dubs her the "model of the moment", which this dusky beauty certainly is Neelam Johal alias Gill, this barely out of school girl from Coventry, UK, stole eyeballs when she became Burberry's first-ever Indian model last year.
Raising a child in a ‘different’ country is one of the trickiest bridges to cross.
M6 gave way to A74 (M), seven miles north of Carlisle. "Fàilte gu Alba" read the board - Welcome to Scotland.
Whenever we Indians, across the globe, stand up in one body to the opening bars of "Jana Gana Mana", mostly proud, sometimes disgruntled, wondering about the traffic we'd face getting out of the programme we're attending, how long it'd take us to reach home and what's for dinner, the creator of that song seldom wanders into our incongruent thoughts.
Not the heaven on the earth crowning India's map, which triggers daily skirmishes across the LoC, with steady casualties on both sides of the border. But the "Kashmir Supermarket", which is a provision store closer home.
