Happy New Year and a fond farewell

First of all let me wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Hope your 2007 has started with as much fun and feverish activity as mine has!

With New Year also comes a time for new resolutions (forget the fact that the old ones may not have yet been fulfilled) and this year I have decided to focus my blogging energy on

1. Newsmericks
2. Regional language blogging

So where does that leave this blog, my first, which brought me into the world of blogging? This blog was meant to be a storehouse of my thoughts and feelings about all that I saw, read and much more. However, somewhere down the road, it became a place where I stored some of my hap-hazard poetry and then that too dwindled away into nothingness.

I think it is a time for a voice in the wind to say goodbye. Thank you all who stopped by here. Will let you know if I decide to return in a different avatar. Till then, see you at Newsmericks!

Thought for the day

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

~ Thomas Fuller

Everybody needs a hug sometime...

Juan Mann - Hugs

The warmth of a hug
Can light up the darkest day
So share one for free...

A matter of perspective

Walking along the banks of the Seine one evening, I came across this sketch by a street artist. Not quite Escher and perhaps trifle naughty but interesting enough to share.

Wonder what Freud would have had to say about this portrait? :D

Paris, Pujas & Poe

The world lay asleep
But somewhere in the darkness
A tower shimmered...

So much to write about yet the thoughts refuse to flow. Had a lovely vacation in Paris, followed by another at Darjeeling. Then came the Puja festivities in Kolkata which have not quite died down yet.

No, the picture above is not a puja pandal in Kolkata. It is the real thing (though I won't be surprised to see it being replicated as a puja pandal sometime in the near future!). Here are some photos I took during the pujas...enjoy!

Re-reading Edgar Allen Poe's short stories. Here is one of my all-time favorites.

Will be back soon!

Thought for the day

"Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." – Jorge Luis Borges

The rains

Monsoon showers,
No power for hours,
A city bogged,
Waterlogged...

And yet I love the rains :-)