Hey You !

The red moon, the dark roads and the loud sounds of cricket -so far from my world in Kolkata ! Mamaam's phone kind of broke into the revierie  - and she exclaimed  as usual "Tumi Dada k felaye thuia kyan jao ? Kao to?"  It made me smile ! My most instant answer would have been , "Bhalo laage , tai !!!" But I knew it would make her more indignant and I will have to work overtime to decipher her hardcore "Bangal" :) It would have been very difficult to make her understand that sometimes I  need my solitude and need to be alone.  "Me-time ' to most sounds selfish , running away and not caring - but in many ways it is so essential . Just to get away - just to - no reasons ! Maybe to enjoy the roads that empty out by 9.00 to give that deserted look , to listen to the crickets that drum up an orchestra and admire the moon beyond the coconut trees ....Ah solitude can be painful and it can be calming ......Mammam's rejoinder would b

If I take on from that story of a boy meet girl on that sunset evening, where would it lead to?  Maybe 5 years down the line and they meet while on transit somewhere, at some airport while boarding their flight? Will they recognize each other? What if they don't? That memory of the magical sunset watered down in the rat-race of life. Keeping the home-life-work balance, chasing targets, trying to find a foothold on the ever slippery time.  We meet such people in life for a split second , minutes, hours , years and then lose them forever. Maybe we meet them, pass them, feel the familiarity, yet cannot place them.  Well I never went back to my story did I? What if it happened the other way around ? They boy and the girl are now a man and a lady, and they are in a queue. Suddenly their eyes meet- both stare a minute and look the other way and look back again. The woman recognizes the guy- older, weary but familiar , but did not know how to introduce herself. And then the guy su

Over the years I realized the power of girl friends.Connecting over coffee, movie, a night-out or a just -for -kicks get together , always peps you up. Especially if you are connecting with childhood friends, with whom you share memories of the time when you were young , reckless and foolish :) In a week that saw mood swings and temper tantrums , the evening out with Mohua, Mimi, Tuntun and Nandini was a perfect balm and an ideal escapade from all that I wanted to leave and run. Nandini  always has loads of stories that's entertaining - Mohua is the quiet one- Mimi the sober one , while me and Tuntun are the naughty ones ! Cafe 23 was a nice place to be - just us and the attention of the patron ! I deviated from my point, really - what I feel these days is that it is good to reconnect - now that all of us are around the half century mark - done with a lot of life , we value each other- the friendship, the camaraderie, the shared life-skills and the problems that often gets d