Rashmi and I go back – oh some three decades. Her daughter Mitali was very close to Natasha when they were growing up as kids. For 13 years we were in Dallas. And now it has been nearly 20 years that we have been out of Dallas.

Even after these many years, we still stumble upon hitherto unknown intersection points!

Found out that Rashmi and Apurva, when they were in Hong Kong, were very close to Sharmila’s friend Rupa. In fact, when Sharmila and I had visited Rupa and stayed in her apartment, Rashmi and Apurva were in an apartment in the next building!!

Here is another one. Rashmi’s elder sister – Ranjha – lives in New York. We know her pretty well. And there is this girl from my old neighborhood in Durgapur – Urmi Duttagupta. Very close friend of me and my sister.

And now I find out that they are math professors in the same college in New York and know each other very well!!

Cool connections!