Seeing Seas 3

India has a 7,516.6 km long coastline. In winter 1986, we made a trip to Digha, West Bengal’s favourite beach resort in the Purba Medinipur district perched on the north of the Bay of Bengal. From Kolkata, it’s a journey of 187 km and of around four and a half hours. The beaches are of black sticky sand with waves gently lashing the coastline.  Casuarina trees fringe the shores.

Warren Hastings, a British colonial administrator fondly nicknamed it the ‘"Brighton of the East". I had hoped to make sand castles on the beach but that was not possible as the sand was glued together. I enjoyed a pony ride across the beach though. The sunrises and sunsets on the sea were beautiful, glistening the brine with a red-golden tinge in the morning and a blue halo after twilight.

I’d relish the tasty seafood cooked with spices in Bengali style. We’d roam through the woods on the beach and roll down the artificial mounds of sand.

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