I woke up to a beautiful sunrise today, hopefully a precursor to happy sunny days ahead. It is with mixed feelings that I write this today - trepidation and excitement at the upcoming move into our own home in Bangalore, in what promises to be a beautiful well-knit community, and sadness about leaving Calcutta - a place where I grew up many times in many ways, where the boys became young men, and where we worked and partied and gallivanted for so many years.
I am going to miss some very dear friends, and the only thing that keeps me from getting dejected is the fact that we will surely stay in touch, and if in one of life's twists and turns that lie ahead, we meet, we will just continue our friendship as if there never was a time when we were apart.
What i will miss..
- Victoria Memorial walks (including a couple in torrential rain) and the longer walks around the Maidan
- walks to Nandan and the Academy, and the gandhoraj puchkas that were a part of these walks
- walks to Inox in the Forum Mall, to watch movies, and the walk back, sometimes at 2 in the night
- dinners with friends (though the numerous dinners over the past two months will keep me happy for a long time to come)
- get-togethers with friends in our home
- Saturday breakfasts (club kachoris and jalebis) with such good friends in Victoria View
- Our drives to Lake Market on Sundays for vegetables followed by breakfast at the Banana Leaf
- Tolly teas, CCFC snacks
- the familiarity with the place - the right place for everything from crockery to refrigerators to phone repairs
- Music concerts and plays, where we were treated like royalty
- Morning tea in our balcony on the 22nd floor
- watching the rain come in
- the amazing mango souffle from Balaram Mallick's store
the list just goes on and on..
I am going to miss some very dear friends, and the only thing that keeps me from getting dejected is the fact that we will surely stay in touch, and if in one of life's twists and turns that lie ahead, we meet, we will just continue our friendship as if there never was a time when we were apart.
What i will miss..
- Victoria Memorial walks (including a couple in torrential rain) and the longer walks around the Maidan
- walks to Nandan and the Academy, and the gandhoraj puchkas that were a part of these walks
- walks to Inox in the Forum Mall, to watch movies, and the walk back, sometimes at 2 in the night
- dinners with friends (though the numerous dinners over the past two months will keep me happy for a long time to come)
- get-togethers with friends in our home
- Saturday breakfasts (club kachoris and jalebis) with such good friends in Victoria View
- Our drives to Lake Market on Sundays for vegetables followed by breakfast at the Banana Leaf
- Tolly teas, CCFC snacks
- the familiarity with the place - the right place for everything from crockery to refrigerators to phone repairs
- Music concerts and plays, where we were treated like royalty
- Morning tea in our balcony on the 22nd floor
- watching the rain come in
- the amazing mango souffle from Balaram Mallick's store
the list just goes on and on..
