The blue sky

This is a topic that ought to have been written on 14th February, on the ever-green Valentine's day which is celebrated with a great craze all over the world. But just like as I believe there is no one particular day to celebrate love, I chose to write my thoughts on this topic today. I happened to see the movie Baghban for the nth time and couldn't help rocking at the song, where Amitabh remembers his lady love, his wifey, Hema Malini. Seeing their bond on screen has always moved me. How can people be so much in love over a period of 40 years? They look like young couple, just fallen in love and share every thing, appreciate every small things in each other. They know when the other person is lying, crying, sad, even when they are away from each other. Whoaaa! I know it is too filmy, but I am sure there are such real life couples too! What a feeling that is! I have seen many real life couples who have spent 50 yrs with ea...

It gives me immense pleasure to let you all know that it is exactly one year today that this blog, mine and your very own blog- The Blue Sky was created. On the same day, last year, I started penning my thoughts on this blog and penned down almost 77 write-ups. I could have made a century here, but then the thoughts behind the number are important, aren't they? I churned out write-ups, most of them were non-fiction, real incidents which were really close to my heart. I mostly wrote about people and then about my observations, my interpretations on such people and incidents. I thank you all, my readers and supporters to have spent some time on my blog by stopping by. There are a few people due to whom I am still writing and without whose mention, this birthday celebration would be incomplete: My first and foremost critic, first reader of my write-up, my friend, John, without whom, I would have never started writing this blog. He takes time from his busy sche...

I am not a person who cries over time that is gone, but I would definitely like to count all the good things that happened to me in the last 7 years that I am in Bangalore. I came to Bangalore on 23rd January 2005 for a job offered to me by a multinational called Hewlett Packard. I had done post-graduation in German, had 1 year work experience in Mumbai, had taught German at the university, but this kind of job was a first time in my life. I was going to be away for the first time from my parents and Bangalore was a new city to me with no friends or relatives. But this company gave me 2 friends for a life-time. Koustubh and Sudhir. I owe the tenure which I spent in Bangalore to them. Because they were here too, we had a wonderful time, learning and exploring new things at job. Movies, shopping, dining was a weekly ritual. We gave each other strength in tough times and shared personal problems too. Eventually we all moved out of the company, but we are still going strong! Sudhir is h...