Monthly Archive for October, 2007

Road to Gangtok

Published on October 3, 2007 in From here & there. 3 Comments

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One of the earliest memories I cherish is travelling along the endless national highway 31A from West Bengal till Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim along with my family. While the journey in itself will eat up a good 3 to 4 hours of your time, the scenic highway makes up for it as one travels through the winding, binding, snaking roadway crossing the omnipresent signs/quotes that dot the entire way.

I got this collage from Romong Karthak Lepcha’s website which was a delight in itself. As is in a diverse country like India, Sikkim used to have two main tribes eons ago – the Lepcha & the Bhutia. I had a Lepcha mother and a Bhutia father so the Lepcha tribe is something very close to my heart.

Since I stay an hour’s drive from Gangtok, this means I usually have to travel through these roads to reach it. Not so much a pleasure now than back when I was in college and used to be dying to travel uphill to reach home!

The kind of person one is

Published on October 1, 2007 in I me & myself. 0 Comments

Post a tediously long reflection on what sort of person I am, the soul searching for the truth behind me and my tendancies towards life and its existential angst made me conclude the following:

1. I hate cats with a vengance. Last time my poor Winkie wagged her tail (and pounced as well) at a teeny weeny kitten, it hissed and clawed a razor sharp blow smack across Winkie’s face. My dog hasnt been the same around cats ever since.

2. I will never be an outdoorsy person. Lets face it – I am the kind of person to watch TV non-stop the moment I wake up till I sleep. I need to be paid to venture outside. In fact, thats probably the only reason I go to work 5 days a week.

3. I will watch all the cookery shows on TV but never for the life of me, never know how to reproduce the same in my kitchen. Are cookery shows a great big hoax where they secretly laugh behind people like me & my poor attempts to cook as per their instructions? I am beginning to think so…

4. I get minus points when it comes to picking up great books to read. The last time I tried buying a book by just reading its cover, I ended up with two really, really boring reads that till date has been collecting dust on my shelf. In other words, only my friends buy fantastic books and I end up reading their copies and later when I do buy my own copy, it finishes up gathering yet another bout of dust on my shelf. Moral of the story is – I need to dust my book shelves clean.

5. I would also be inherently lazy if not for the fact that I love writing my blog. Or reading my books. All other things follow in their own sweet time and space. In fact, my lazy thing to do for today is to truncate this post at point 5. Have a happy Gandhi Jayanti tomorrow everyone. Thank god it means a day off :)

Brothers & Sisters

Published on October 1, 2007 in Good things. 0 Comments

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I like this new soap on Star World for two reasons – former Ally McBeal Calista Flockhart and Sally Fields. Although I have a very limited tolerance level towards soaps in the first place, right from the untouchable Hindi ones to never-ending dragsters like Bold & the Beautiful.

Which made me thinking – it must be wonderful living in such a large family – a fact which we, most of the current generation of Indians would not know about, thanks to our Government’s family planning policy. Plus the fact that the Walker family and we live in separate planets of society and culture altogether.

Nevertheless, the show tends to touch almost all aspects of reality, heart-breaks, diseases and beliefs that I find appealing. Its all about keeping it as real as possible yet with a dash of good looking Hollywood stars. I am now an even bigger fan of Sally Fields – The Mom. And even though she may not have anything to do with the title, for me she’s the real star of the show.

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