Crib, Crib, Crib

I am ill, so no posts I think till I get better. Can’t help cribbing about the runny nose, fever and body ache, inflation, Tata shifting Nano to Gujarat, mosquitoes around my bed, no mails/scraps/wall postings all day, mom hasn’t called, D will be late, am hungry and bored like hell.
And all you damn readers, [...]

An Obituary

As fate would have it, N did not come yet and D will be late too, plus the P sisters seemed to have enough good music after two RD Burman songs and therefore they are back to playing “Pappu can’t dance saala” and their father is singing along without the slightest hint of any tune. [...]

Angsty about Shifting

I had always suspected, and never known how much stuff D and I share between us. And with this sudden talk of house shifting I am really lost. My father worked for the government so we shifted houses every decade or half that and therefore you would assume I am rather ok with all this [...]

Dhaak at Durga Pujo

This made this year’s Durga Pujo even more special:

Vir Sanghvi on Durga Pujo

Yet again, I do not know how to write about Durga Pujo in Calcutta. I do not know what to write about. So I am putting up Vir Sanghvi’s account here, and I am sure I couldn’t do it any better. Here goes:
“It’s always hard to explain to somebody who does not live in Calcutta what [...]

To Smoke or Not To Smoke

India has done it again. Smoking has been banned from public places, predictably from the birthday of Gandhi. They imply cigarettes only I think, because the “smoking” of Christians, their homes and churches, continues unabated through the nation.
On a less irreverent note, with all of India’s cries over equality, this new law just proves that [...]

At the End of it All

Durga Pujo is over and I am back in Goa. She came and went too soon, and while I did get a tad teary-eyed at the end of it all, I did not cry. I am a big girl now.
Have a lot to say, but tonight is not the most perfect. Later. Tomorrow perhaps.