17 December
2022
10 December
2022
Completed one more project
Had this idea for some time. Finally got to put it together. Put in a glass sheet on my writing desk. That is not interesting at all. What is though, is what I kept under it.
Tirtha, I was finally able to do justice to your gift. I now have all those old tickets of Kolkata bus, tram, train, autorickshaw, metro and ferry service neatly arranged on the left. I will see them everyday I sit down to write something.
On the right, is a collection of currencies from 25 different countries that I have visited in the past. For most of them, I had paper currency. Excepting four.
Mahmoud, you will notice that I have those two coins frrom ancient Indian civilization that was gifted to me by Mohammad Abu Ali also now on display!!
10 December
2022
Rewind-Pause: Not sure whose birthday it was
8 December
2022
Looks familiar?
4 December
2022
Serene evening with some Bengali classics from Hemanta Mukherjee
“Poth harabo bolei
Ebar pothe nemechi
Soja pother dhnadhay
Ami onek dhnedhechi
Poth harabo bolei
Ebar pothe nemechi”
Lyrics and tune by Salil Chowdhury
Roughly translated…
“I am stepping back on the road again
This time so that I can get lost on my way
The road, that is straight and narrow
Has disoriented me time and again
This time I am stepping back on the road
Just so that I can get lost on my way”
3 December
2022
Rewind-Pause: Not sure what was so intriguing about Tasha digging her shoes in the sand
26 November
2022
Penning down some thoughts
26 November
2022
Last day of Farmers’ Market in Alpharetta downtown
26 November
2022
Rewind-Pause: Spider-man and Lanell !
A few days back, I was talking to Lanell to wish her a happy birthday! Lanell was our front desk person at i2 and a class unto herself. A visiting customer had once aptly described her as “i2’s best ambassador”.
In any case, we were talking about the good old days when she suddenly asked me – “Where is Spider-man?” I had to ponder for a few seconds and then instantly remembered that Halloween evening when I had taken Natasha and Sunil/Anannya’s son Adreesh to i2 offices for candy collection.
Had to dig back to that day – Nov 2, 2002 (both were 4 years old) in my photo archives to relive that day. That picture of Adreesh slouching in the chair is priceless. It is like Spider-man was really tired after putting in a full day’s worth of work (mostly collecting candies, though).
19 November
2022
