10 November 2020

Social Distancing in Durgapur Railway Station!

My brother and his family is now at his in-laws in Durgapur. This is the same town where both Sharmila and I grew up. He needed to dash down to Patna for a couple of days for work. He decided to take the Danapur Express which would make it a seven and a half hours overnight train ride.

This is the picture he sent me while waiting at Platform #3 in Durgapur Railway Station!!

Social Distancing!!!

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8 November 2020

That hurt!!

Today was just one mile. The calf hurt enough that I had to walk back. More like limp back. I can’t believe this one is giving me so much trouble. Usually I am able to get rid of most running injuries with a couple of weeks’ rest. This one is on its sixth week now…

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8 November 2020

The upside of a rural living

More than thirteen years back Sharmila and I moved the daughters and ourselves from Dallas, Texas to Milton, Georgia. While parts of Milton has seen a lot of development after that, certain other parts still retains the semi-rural style of living. You know … like dirt roads, well water, septic tanks and internet thru DSL.

We have absolutely loved living in the privacy and beauty of quiet solitude of nature. It used to be that if some farm or neighbor lost a cat or dog, they used to staple the picture on those wooden electric posts and we used to read them up.

Lately, we have had technology like “Nextdoor” apps. But I promise you, you can bring in technology to us, you cannot take away our pastoral living though. Check out some snippets of lost pets in our neighborhood from Nextdoor… goats, pigs, ducks, horses and what have you!!!

7 November 2020

Weekend music session

This one is from Gulzar. We grew up listening a lot to this song. I think this was featured in a Hindi movie. (not an expert on Hindi movies – so not sure of it though)

Naam gum jaayegaa, 
Chehra ye badal jaayegaa,
Meri aawaaz hi pehchaan hai,
‘Gar yaad rahe

Roughly translated…

My name will be lost to your memory
And I will look very different too
But my voice will still be recognizable
Only if you are able to remember it