Till the other day, if you had asked Sharmila or me where our nearest blood relatives are, we would have said – “About 10,000 miles or 24 hours of flight away (not counting layover time)”. In fact most of them are within about 100 miles of Kolkata.

Now that has changed dramatically. DrDebarun, Amrita and Debayan have moved to Toronto. Now the answer is – “Less than 800 miles or about 1 hour 45 minutes of flight time away”!!

Admittedly, you have to jump three generations from Sharmila or Amrita to find common blood. But still it counts.

I had met Amrita way back when she was in 5th grade in 1993 and this is the first time I met Debarun and Debayan!!!