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
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Down south when we’re 'under the weather' we’d say to have a cup of Jack Daniels Tennessee whisky and take to bed until you feel better. Hot Tea with lots of sugar werks fer me! Of course there's nothing like bed-time for whatever ails!
~w
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