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याद है इक दिन -
मेरे मेज़ पे बैठे - बैठे,
सिगरेट की डिबिया पर तुमने,
छोटे से इक पौधे का,
एक स्केच बनाया था -

आकर देखो,
उस पौधे पर फूल आया है !

Mumbai Rain

Wet Wet Roads...
Woh Bheegi Bheegi Yaadein...

The promise of togetherness...

The romantic rain...

Why did u go away...

My weekend in Mumbai

I had one of the most wonderful weekend this week in Mumbai. Its fun to be in Mumbai with friends. But this time round there was a new visitor too. The rain, coming from Delhi, the heat had me in and I was in a dire need for something as refreshing and cool as rain and thats what I got in Mumbai.
Walking on sea beach, going to Colaba, are something that I am used to doing in Mumbai. But this time round I was more on an official visit and thats why I got to do this that I have not done. I went to places that I had not been to. It started with Lokhandwala. Now this is a place that I always thought to be a shabby li’l place with all those SEC C people and lo! I was in for a shock. I don’t know where this thing came into my mind but now I know that the myth is busted.
I had some really memorable moments: Walking from Colaba to CST, Taking a local train all alone, doing FW and visiting people in door-to-door interviews. Meeting a Lech who constantly ogled at the EIC. Meeting the most talkative girl I have ever seen in my life and if she is reading then she definitely gonna kill me.
All in all it was rejuvenating and refreshing for me. The rain, the people and the time in Mumbai was something that would keep me going for a long time.
And the usuals: Swati, Santanu and Vishal were their usual selfs. Swati and Santanu being busy in their exams, I had to wait till Sunday evening till we could do with something remotely close to partying, which we did atlast but I think that was really late. We had dinner at Vihangs and then watched movie, roamed around on the streets and reached airport at 2-30 so that I could check in before the flight departs...
P.S.: Guys there is a new story that I am writing so soon you are gonna have a nice read, I hope u gonna like it...

Women I would like to think about...

With 95% (Well the remaining 5% is reserved for Karan Johar and Co.) of male thinking about women all the time I was thinking who would be the women that I would like think about... So here comes the chart of top five women I would like to think about:
5.Fizz: Did I hear a who, well she is the character in Tarun Tejpal's 'Alchemy of Desire' cannot help but think about her, she is right now taking up almost 12% of my braind space, a very individualistic, independent and opinionated woman. Well, might not be as big as Scarlett O'hara but definitely more believable than her...
4. Priyanka Gandhi: Has been trying a lot to know her for a long time. She was a long time crush but then Aishwarya out lasted her and then there was Alicia Silverstone and so on... but now that she is making all the right noises I would definitely like to know her.
3. Megan Fox: You have seen her on the maxim cover and then she blew you off with her performance in Transformer, with tattoos all over her body, I would definitely like to know her, rather closely
2. Suu Kyi: Of course with the power that she has and the respect that she gets from her followers and the conviction she has shown in the cause that she believes in I would be definitely thinking about her
1. Jhumpa Lahiri: Never thought she was this hot untill I saw a picture of her, with tht bod and a brain to die for I don't find anyone better than her to top the list

Maniac Sunday

I don’t plan my Sundays but then there are exceptions, this was one of them I had my book full: Morning to be spent loitering lazily across the nai sarak second hand book stores and then get some books for myself. I am used to getting books and not finishing them, I am thru tht phase so the books no more worry me. Then I would have a very special lunch laid down by Hari Bhai, where I would play guess-what-it-is with the food that he would have prepared and then I would go catch a movie, been a long long time since I have done that and now that the theatres have opened their doors to new releases I think I should make myself available to their services. But then there was no such luck. I opened my eyes to the alarm of my mobile phone which was set to 7-30, cursing myself I re-adjusted the time to 8-00 half hour doesn’t make a difference. But then it did, I forgot to save it and by the time I woke up it was 10-30. Deepti messaged tht she won’t be able to join me at Nai Sarak, and not to so enthu me thought to scrap the first plan of the day. Some genius has said that Morning Shows the Day, he was referring to me. I was soon reminded of a pending work at the office and rushed to finish it off and then when I was almost done with the work I realized my mailbox ain’t working and the mail was not sent.

Now that I have been half way thru the Sunday and think that the movie might just go well without any hiccups I am trying to waste my time in the office… show at 3-45 pm and I have got exactly 1 hr and 29 minutes to waste…

Language Portability

There is a problem that we all, by that I mean the people from East, face when we come to a more refined and accent-deprived Delhi it is called language portability. So for someone from my part of the woods there is no difference between, say Leave and Live and we use them very liberally. Similarly when we say Jade we actually mean ‘Z’ and ‘sss’ and ‘sshhh’ have got similar pronunciation.

The aforementioned are few basic mistakes that we make apart from more gross ones where we make a sentence sound completely different from what we intended to. For example when we say: Leave and let Leave, we mean the famous dialogue ‘Live and let Live’.

We don’t stop there we have peculiar sense of Hindi too. In oriya we don’t have a gender defined grammar, so we usually end up mixing it in Hindi too. So we have a ‘ka’ at a place where ‘ki’ would have been appropriate and vice versa. And while we speak we simply change their genders, thereby making things that we want to convey doubly difficult for people around us to understand. But then we have some evolved set among us who would take the charge of explaining the understood parts in their own understanding of Hindi and I pray for the souls of the hapless ones who have to bear the brunt.

So people who have been thru this rough ride of jee / Zee and sss / sshh please bear with us and we definitely would make you pick our accent very soon.

MIss You Dear Friend

A couple of year down the memory lane,
things were slightly different, with you by my side.
You remember sipping those hot cups of tea
Sitting on the railings of the French window,of your room.

Evenings used to long chat sessions,
Some nights were spent watching movies,
Or some talking to an unwelcomed friend.

Mornings were rush hours,
We rarely got to see each other then.
But the evenings were slightly laid back,
And we never missed a moment.

But then it wasn’t to be forever,
And then one day, you went away,
Not a single word was spoken,
No tears, Not even a good bye,
You just went away...

Miss you dear friend...