It has been almost a year since I left Chennai to start work in Bangalore. The memories are faint and the emotions are in traces.
I remember many a nice day spent rollicking in my grand parent’s place in Annanagar, Chennai. It is now a faint remembrance of what it used to represent a decade or more [...]
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Drizzle in the air.
Ululations in the landscape.
Wood crackling in the hearth.
Booze in my veins.
Like iron being worked in a furnace,…ideas are born.
I speak and forget at the same time.
Two to tango, but one to live.
Thick scent of blood, sure is thicker than water.
Mind is free and the shroud of life is but a thin veil.
Wander [...]
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Had about an hour and a half to kill in between meetings, in Madras.
Set out to Ramakrishna Math situated in Mandaveli. I returned to this place afer a gap of close to 5 years. Memories apart, I went to the free footwear stall and deposited my footwear there. I cam out of the stall to see [...]
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I grew up with this on my lips every time I spoke to one of my colleagues, acquaintances, friends in and around Madras. I cannot claim to have traveled all over, but I have traveled decently across India. I have not come across this sort of camaraderie anywhere else. I must qualify that I do not [...]
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