The Great Indian Tension is here

Time for the match-of-all-matches India-Pakistan cricket match has arrived again in the world cup. All eyes will be glued to the much hyped, much anticipated and much publicised match tomorrow when team India will take on team Pakistan in the huge ground of Mohali where the wicket is favorable for batsmen and a total of 700 runs by two teams put together is being expected.

All fingers crossed for the team India to win.

I am happy that my present state of in-between-jobs has spared me of the great tension of managing a leave or leaving early from office leaving my head free for having tension for the match only. I can be at home all ready to watch each ball of the match and bite my nails.

Cheer for India!!! Team aise he nahi jitti, jitana padta hai :)

It's Back

JWM is one of my most favorite films. I can't count how many times I have seen it. For me it's just not a movie; a lot of my life's happiness, expectation and memory is associated with it. Six months back when I wanted to see it, I couldn't see it. It was terrible but I was just not able to see it. Something was haunting me.

Today I watched it again. And it's back. It proves that I am slowly coming out of that black shadow that lasted for one year and two months in my life.

Holi that was not of colour

I remember the Holi I had spent in the year of 2009. I was in Silchar. I was so happy. I visited all the houses in my neighborhood with packets of dry colour and played Holi with everybody, no matter how old they were. I always love to play Holi. I think I love to do everything that involves people and fun unless I am forced to do that.


Last year’s Holi was very bad. Like always I was getting prepared for Holi buying dry colours. This time I bought expensive vegetable colours with mild fragrance. I was very sure that that day would be a day to remember in the future. I was expecting to have a lot of fun. But I was actually playing hide and seek with myself as one part of my mind always knew that nothing what I was expecting was going to happen. Still I kept hoping until it broke down completely.


This year I am in Bangalore. There is no one I know in the neighborhood. So, this year’s Holi was a lazy weekend full of books, cinema, food, cricket match and ample amount of rest. I completed ‘An Unaccustomed Earth’ by Jhumpa Lahiri in the free time. I found it even better than The Interpreter of Maladies. But the melancholic feeling that it left after it was over was so unbearable for me that for one day I didn’t start any new book and started watching Hindi movies in Max. It worked. The India-West Indies match was also a great stress buster for me.


Today I have started reading The Quilt by Ismat Chughtai. I am planning to gift myself some books on my birthday this year :)

Motichur Laddu

For last couple of days I was yearning to have motichur laddu. Today while coming back from office I made it a point to go to the sweet shop and get some motichur laddu. In Bangalore every small to big retailers are brands. This sweet shop is also a famed brand having outlets at various parts of the city. I wanted to buy 1 kg motichur laddu but as I checked the price tag, my wishes half died so I dared to buy half kg only. The motichur laddu in Bangalore costs 340 rupees per kg!!!!!!! I cant believe it. This is an Indian sweet, then why so much price!!!! God help us before we start saying 'motichur laddu is sour.'

Angels and Demons - the movie

Yesterday while fiddling with TV remote, I found Angels and Demons to be telecast (i dont remember in which channel) shortly. Hurriedly I took my bath, did my my puja and prepared rice for dinner and sat to watch the movie. It's always exciting to see the movie of a novel which you have read recently. Though the Angels and Demons is not as enjoyable as Da Vinci Code, but it was a good time pass read.

Anyway, the movie is a lot different from the novel where many characters of the novel were omitted and some more were introduced. When I was reading the novel, I used to wonder how they would have made the movie considering so many complex incidents happening simulataneously. But they did change the plot to a large extent. But I must admit the movie is less dramatic than the novel, which is good.

Just like The Godfather, I found the film adaptation of the novel Angels and Demons to be better than the original novel.

Government is a fool. Only I’m smart!

Government is building big roads for the ever-increasing cars and big flyovers for smooth traffic. Government is also taking up a lot of safety measures for the pedestrians’ on the roads. One such measure is the construction of subways where there is merging traffic. Another safety measure taken by the government, which is very new in use, is the blowing of siren for one minute during which the traffic stops to give way to the pedestrians to cross the roads. This is implemented mainly in busy and broad highways where the vehicles run at 50-70km/hour speed.



But government is such a fool. People are far more intelligent than those stupid government officers who are working day-nights to implement measures to make citizen life safer, easier and smoother. People don’t really bother to take subway. They are smart city people. They can cross the road anytime anywhere. And what happens to the subways? They simply turn to public lavatories thanks to male population of the country.



There is another bunch of smart people who think waiting for the siren to blow at the signal such a waste of time. Only fools do that! They might not have important work in hand but they make it a point not to waste even a second and make space in between speeding vehicles and thus crossing the road. They are smart city people.



I often wonder, if some unfortunate accident happens sometime, who will be at the receiving end? The government, who built all those measures for public safety? Or those police constables who are deployed at the signals to make sure that people abide by the rule? Will they bother if a life gets destroyed at an unfortunate moment? Or even worse, if that smart person turns into an invalid person for the rest of his/her life? Who will actually pay for the smartness?



Are their lives’ government’s? If not, then whom are they cheating on? Whom are they making fool of?

My dream house

I want a library, two gardens – one kitchen garden and one garden for flowers and a swimming pool in my dream house. I don’t want anything more :)

Yellow and purple flowers

As if it’s the city’s wedding! The entire city is adorned with bright yellow and mild purple flowers. Some trees have shed even the last of their leaves and are showing off clustered lumps of yellow flowers. The purple flowers are appearing in a different fashion though. They are spread all across the thin branches of the tree while briefly punctuated by green leaves. What a view to watch every day!



I have asked many people for the names of those flowers. But no success till now. Can anyone help me?