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Summing up the present day India with a single pic.

This pic sums up the land I love in so many ways.
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And thus cometh the day when the good Lord left the colorful homeland for the bland, monotonous, gloomy, miserable shores of a foreign land to carry on with his pointless existence. At least that’s how it felt that day anyway. I’d like to think now that I went back to my old existence, something starkly [...]

Day 25 of my stay in the Bharatvarsha. This is the day before I finally depart. A sad day for me and that too for my friends and dear ones, or at least that’s what they pretend. A full month of me can make people very happy and equally miserable. Depends on how you look [...]

Day 24 was a pretty hectic day by my standards. By my current standards I should say, because these days I’m not as active as I used to be or would be if I still lived in India. That probably also explains why I never needed any exercise in India. The everyday struggle, the rat [...]

I realize this has dragged far too long now. I was very upbeat about this ‘India series’ when I started, like so many other things in life, but I found it getting harder by the day as I moved from one day to another. Sometimes you find it hard to live through an experience again, [...]

Somewhere in the dark confines of a soggy cell in Tihar jail a conversation broke out between four inmates.
Terrorist A: So are all of you guys here under TADA too?
~the rest in unison~: Yes
Terrorist B: So, how many hits this year?
Terrorist C: Don’t know, only started counting since April.
Terrorist D: I crossed 10,000 a [...]

16th Feb 2006. Day 22 in the motherland and it’s a slightly slow day. Mostly because another ODI is on. This time around I plan not to see the whole thing but catch up bits of it during the day. The meeting I spoke about in the previous post got postponed. I wasn’t too disappointed [...]

My heart goes out to you.
We stand by all the survivors,
May God give you strength.
We mourn all those who perished,
May you rest in peace!

Its a sad day! Yet again..
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Its been 20 days since I left the comforts of my peaceful laid back existence for the hustle n bustle of a place I call home. Well, home in theory at least, considering the number of years I have stayed away from India. In fact, for all practical purposes it has long ceased to be [...]

Day 20 in the motherland and love is in the air. I mean in theory at least, since it’s the 14th of Feb and Valentines Day. My opinion of Valentine’s Day isn’t very high, to be frank. I feel this was a day invented by flower shops and greeting card companies. It is not surprising [...]