Entries from April 2005

April 23, 2005

Homeward Bound

Ain’t I lucky ? Am going home tomorrow… for a complete week. Its been more than a year since I visited my hometown.. Lucknow. And now, as I contemplate the visit, I realise how much I have missed it.
Guess everyone feels the same way about their hometowns… the streets more familiar than the one [...]

April 19, 2005

Au Revoir Hyderabad

I am leaving Hyderabad.
Before we get married, both my fianc饠and me are taking transfers to Pune? the only place where our respective companies intersect. To be honest, it hurts. For the last eleven months I had been, well almost, a Hyderabadi.
Hyderabad? is like an old shoe? it is comfortable, familiar, fits you just [...]

April 14, 2005

A River Runs through it…

It?s a beautiful day today at Hyderabad? the clouds, the breeze.. sort of hinting at an impending monsoon. The weather makes me so reminiscent of Kumaun.
I did my engineering from a college situated in a Himalayan Valley in Uttaranchal.
Heard of names like Nainital, Almora, Ranikhet? ? well Dwarahat lies in District Almora?. and [...]

April 12, 2005

The Beach

Slats of sunlight, swaying as the palm fronds they filtered through, creating a dream-like quality in a very real world. Juhu was crowded even at seven in the morning?. with the all the regular suspects occupying their regular places??.
The mandatory tourist family frolicking in the toxic sea waters, while the regular Mumbaikars gazed sagely from [...]

April 8, 2005

For Her

Its her birthday tomorrow. My best friend, and also the one I am about to marry this June. I have known her for three years now. Its been an interesting phase in my life. My first year of MBA, the monsoons had been in full swing, drenching the landscape with wet greenery. We had a [...]

April 5, 2005

The Trip

We studied in an old old school in Lucknow, so old that the scratches on the wooden desktops were probably made by our grandfathers in knickerbockers. We had been a group of around 90 boys? divided neatly into three sections ( A, B & C ) and five houses ( No I will not name [...]