Thank god for blessing us with a cool breeze and heavy downpours in the last couple of days here in Calcutta. Ahead of Poila Baisakh, the Bengali New Year, I sure am glad to have gotten a temporary respite from the heat, the sweat and the grime!
It's not like I don't like summer! I mean summer too has its own pleasures -- the awesome variety of mangoes, mouth watering lichis, the watermelons and then alu-bukharas (sorry I don't recall the English name of this fruit) ..
But the humidity coupled with the stifling heat in this part of the country is sure to drain you of all the necessary ingredients in your body!! ha ha, does this sound like the latest Glucon-C ad?? Just in casse if it does, do be sure to go out and feast on the lovely drinks and the ice creams which promise to beat the heat!
Feeling nostalgic as I am writing this -- I sure am missing our walks down those memory lanes when I so much enjoyed getting dragged out of my dry surroundings out into the wet and the muddy roads by some of my great f(r)iends like Ditesh, Dabhishek, Daurav, Dahul, Damit -- et cetera et cetera .. Drinking those chais at the roadside dhabas - -Azad hind, Bachchan Singh and our all-time favorite, the Russell St Dhaba!! Kya din the wo .. Purani jeans aur guitar .. Ditesh ki lambi lambi baatein -- The ever-present sense of humor of Dabhishek -- Our never-ending "KYUN" sawaals to Daurav -- apne CA, Damit, ke wo awesome one-liners and speeches borne out of frustration and - not to forget -- the omnipresent madness of Dahul!!
But not to worry, we are all constantly in touch with each other and yep, ye dur rehne wale hum calcuta-wasiyon se milne k liye frequently aate rehte hai .. So, once-in-a-while, main meri in yaadon k sahare apne ye pal kaat leta hu!
N.B.: Names of friends changed for obvious reasons!
