everyday life

After this brief sabbatical, regular life is back on track and once again the monotony is quietly seeping in. Once again I’ll have to go through the same recurring images of the tea gardens and cross the same old bridges while listening to the songs of the birds and the rains. It’s been a year exactly since I joined my courses in this university and the similar onslaught of the rains has once again begun. Currently I am busy reading Shashi Despande’s “Small Remedies”. There’s a lyrical quality moves to her writing. I have just started so I should not say more than I’m expected to. Lets see the beginning has been smooth till now. Hopefully the end will not disappoint.
By the way, today happens to be my birthday. No, there are no plans for a grand celebration as such, just a quiet evening with friends but I doubt how quiet it will stand to be, I mean the continual rains will keep on humming all day long.The rains are washing all the dust and the dirt and is helping in making this terribly humid place cooler but the mud splashed roads and the pathetic condition of the roads are making the commuters lose their mind. So much need to be changed from the grassroots that it is practically making all of us feel low and these rains are not helping at all. But the rains are inevitable and I love their company…I cannot let them go, after all I was born in the rains…

welcome note

So finally after a lot of thought i've opened my own blog. i wonder why i was so keen on going for it. to answer my own query, i guess just to feed my writing obsession. no wisdom is going to be spread and well who cares i'll write thats why i'm here.

Just finished reading Chetan Bhagat's "The 3 Mistakes of My Life". Read him for the first time. i know there would be many who would find this weird as more than half of the country has read him(some over and over again). I waited for the perfect time. Now don't ask me which is the perfect time, and why. I have thus been able to understand why the youth goes ga-ga over him: he can reflect their voice so well. I know (as Chetan himself confesses) that he is no litterateur but what sets him apart, I think, is that he is so accessible and wise and his writing is bereft of any kind of preachiness though it does touch on some very serious points.