And they say “it is a dog’s life”!!
Taking in the joie de vivre of Taste of Alpharetta
We strolled all over Taste of Alpharetta – ever conscious of not spilling our wine from plastic glasses while dodging thru the seemingly endless throng of people, kids and dogs. Eventually we tired out and just sat on the road (all roads were blocked off) – in what might be described in Bengali as “ঠ্যাং ছড়িয়ে” – to do some people watching.

Taste of Alpharetta
Less Abbey Road, London. More Main Street, Alpharetta.
There is an old adage about kids who fly the nest…
Every beginning has an end and every end has a new beginning
Ran into two young friends in downtown Alpharetta
Sharmila, Surya and I walked up to downtown Alpharetta and settled by the green. They grabbed some Indian food from Curry Up Now. I was walking to Chiringa to pick up a glass of wine when I thought a young lady sitting at a table outside was waving at my direction.
My instinctive reaction was to look behind me. And then I realized she meant to wave at me. It is then that I recognized that it was Puspita. She was sitting with her friend – Rupkatha – somebody I have talked with but never met.
That chance meeting gave me an opportunity to catch up on their young careers. Was thrilled to learn that Rupkatha is moving to DC (she will be in Federal Reserve Bank). I think Nikita will have a great time getting to know her.
For some reason, we talked about philately, numismatism, phillolumen and vexillology!
Puspita and Rupkatha, do you remember how we got started talking about those things?

He is sitting at the head of the table like he is going to pick up the check or something
Jay Jay catching his forty winks
He was not very happy when I told him we are not going to downtown today. We will sit in the patio and I will read a book and he can watch people. That did not appeal to him. He did not even bother opening his eyes to look at the people and dogs going up and down the street! It was like he was going “I am going to be like this. You just tell me when you are done so we can go inside!”







