DARE TO DREAM
on Nov 18, 2009 in suffering life catharsis expectations All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ~Elias CanettiSome days are just not made for waking up.Open your eyes and the whole of life seems a lesson in disappointment. There is no sepia-tinted crumbling fort to spend a heady aftern...

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS ...
on Nov 5, 2009 in suffering expectations family marriage Marriage does strange things to you. It not only takes you out out of your familiar surroundings and circle of acquaintances, it also gives you a new home and if lucky, a whole new family. But it is not to talk of the happier side of marriage that I...

MY FIRST BADGE :-))))))
on Oct 29, 2009 in blog virtual celebration expectations list

YOU KNOW WHAT HURTS ?
on Oct 23, 2009 in suffering expectations family experience When you have tried your 100 per cent to be your best self and no one acknowledges it.When your family shows that they really don’t care about you as an individual.When you have to justify yourself to people who you thought had at last learned to b...

MADLY BENGALEE : DURGA PUJO, HERE AND THERE
on Oct 6, 2009 in festival USA celebration Kolkata expectations experience During our stay in New Jersey for a period of 13 months, we happened to visit the pujos at Ananda Mandir and Bharat Shevasram Sangha, the closest we could hope to approximate in terms of pujo porikroma in 2008.On the evening of Shashthi, after a sump...

Ad-ing to our Woes !
on Sep 2, 2009 in USA life experience home At last, we’ve managed to sell off all our living room furniture. The latter included a sofa set, a coffee/centre table, a TV with wooden stand, a floor lamp and a small storage unit, popularly known as a microwave table. With the disposal of these...

HOMEWARD BOUND !
on Aug 22, 2009 in USA news Kolkata experience home We're finally going home, early in September. No, the date hasn't been finalised yet, although it'll probably be on a weekend so that K can get some rest before he joins the TCS Kolkata office on Monday. We're in a mad, chaotic situation now, selling...

BEWARE OF CHILDREN AND DOGS !
on Aug 20, 2009 in USA expectations experience I've never come across so many breeds of cats and dogs back home, compared to my experience in the last one year here. By now, one would presume I must have got over my fear of the species, considering I've been under involuntary contact with an incr...

The Avocado
on Aug 10, 2009 in USA info experience food My latest crush is on the avocado. Sorry folks, I'm too old to go ga-ga over Bollywood any more, although I must confess drooling over Imraan Khan once in a while (I even dreamed that I came across him in a library the other day !) but mostly I've go...

A CRICKET MATCH
on Aug 5, 2009 in USA info friends experience weekend Game in progress :We accompanied the Shindes on Saturday, 25th July, to Woodbridge, near Edison, where the NY-NJ League Cricket Finals (J & J, TCS and AIG, TCS) were taking place on a school playground. Other apparently choice locales had been re...