nosedrip and nostalgia

am sick! and not only as a person in soul but body as well - terrible backache, sty in my eye, sudden numerous mouth ulcers, cold cough, viral fever, and finally just plain tired! and so have been away and not writing...

but am in Oh! Calcutta!! - the city where everything looks fifty years old (am suddenly aging myself) - (is it the light quality tinting everything sepia?is it the corrosive air? is it really that old?) - but the shop signs fopts and the saree print of the aunty in the wooden ramshackle bus?? its justa sprawling village with this strip of the colonial time buildings and all of it is so old... except for the suddenly swanky malls and hutch and airtel signs- no wonder its conducive to period films, no wonder someone said of it - "the city where you feel nostalgic even when you visit for the firat time"

have a lot of pictures to post - dont have hello to post it - AND AM GETTING A NEW LAPTOP

and again

5 months, 2 jobs, 3 residences and all my posts - and i have packed my bags and moved all the way across to Kolkata now - new number, new address, new project, new organisation - and same old me.

It was shocking!! i mean it has been planeed for a month now - but been working 15 hours a day to finish the earlier project and this suddenly felt like waking up from a dream all exhausted in an unfamiliar yet regular world.

And the first time that I have left a city carrying no lingering images of the city no bonds with it and all of them centered around a single family and another room - and maybe a tree...

anyway here's to new beginnings and infrequent internet access...