28 February 2017

Mathematics of life

The last day of February, the shortest month of the year is very important in the life of Boschlers (people working in the company called Bosch) especially for the ones working in India. Today is the day when the company gives us the bonus along with the salary and this number is the biggest in terms of salary compared to all the other months of the year. Anticipation and calculations are on everyone's mind. Till the salary slip shows us what exactly we have got, there is an atmosphere of tension in the office, and it is exactly the same feeling when the results were to be announced during the school times. Once the salary slip is out and the SMS of the money getting deposited in the salary account arrives, it is the time when disappointment sets in for most of them out there....

27 February 2017

Ventilator - A Marathi movie



I got a chance to watch a Marathi movie called “Ventilator” which was released in Maharashtra a few months ago. The name suggests a heavy, tear jerking hospital drama which depicts something about person who is on a ventilator in the hospital waiting for the D-day. But it was anything but that. It is a nice, humorous take on that one day when a person called Gajju kaka gets ill and his whole clan gets to the hospital to lend support to his immediate family with their own secret agendas.

24 February 2017

6 years and counting

I took a long break, a really long one.

My last post was in July 2016. I missed writing on so many things in past months. So much has happened, so much has changed for good, and so much has just gone by unaccounted or unwritten.

The dilemma

My mother-in-law left for Pune today after spending two and a half months with us in Germany. And suddenly the house seems empty without her...