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Back to where i began

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The land of my forefathers and foremothers beckons me. the land where time has mostly stood still, that is until it was told politely to pull down the shutters and join the latest state wide hartal. the land where movie heroes with unbridled machismo habitually speak seven page dialoges in one fiery monologue, where the nubile child-women heroine still calls her leading men 'etta'. the land where... i am getting tired of this. Vacation time in kerala, which, if the gods will it, means time for smoking hot beef curry and parota on rain swept excuse for roads, inside shaky wooden shacks tottering on the sides of mist hidden hills. Ajai's wedding finally! more relatives. more half remembered faces. more hazy acquaintances coming upto me and challenging me to identify them and expressing wonder at me having 'grown' so much..what exctly were they expecting anyway? Thank god for short mallu weddings. This is also the time when statistical and economic comparisions of me

The Window Behind my Back

The past few months in the new job have enabled me in getting to know insomnia more intimately than before, thereby adding to my resume of qualifications for the possible career of an owl or a night watchman or better, a melancholic mallu vampire. That apart, spending whole days and nights within the confines of one's workplace does provide opportunities to watch the hectic turbulence of the day transit into the mellowness wrought by the setting evening sun giving up to the coolness (bless Bangalore for the climate) owned by the night. The office offers a strategically placed window that slides when the a/c is not working, and is content to be closed when it is. This window has the distinction of being my best friend, for the sole reason that it offers an accompaniment of a ledge where i can place myself to view with voyeuristic glee, the doings and the walkings of my fellow humans ,and the class struggles and play times of me fellow canines. The window also comes along with a life