One of the very first Bengali friends from Dallas. We first met three decades back. Sunil and Anannya have not grown even an iota from those days, it would seem.

Pratyush and I go back a long way. He must be the person with whom I have lived in the same city the most number of times… Durgapur, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Dallas! The last time I visited them, which was another wedding-related trip to Dallas, this time for their own son, we obviously didn’t get a chance to have a good “adda”. This time, we made up for that!

Met up with Sharmila’s classmate from her graduate degree days and then also a colleague later – Tricia and her friend Rebecca.