Occidentally Yours Guwahati: As my small town of memories grows bigger and bigger…  By Somnath Batabyal I look across the table at my cousin. We haven’t seen each other in almost fifteen years. Time, depending on how one looks at it, has been generous to her. Her house is enormous, her practice is flourishing and she looks successful. An ENT specialist in Guwahati, she tells me business is booming. “Lots of pollution, no? More and more tumors and cancers.” The small town I grew up in had vanished. In its place today stands a chaotic screaming mess of unimaginative blocks...