Its after a long time i have decided to restart my blog. What a lazy moron I am! My last post was in June 2010...and for the last few months I never cared to write...never cared to say all those things which i desperately wanted to share. This is criminal offence...this is not the way an aspiring writer should behave. But then i have my defence. I was always good at giving lame excuses and with time i have perfected the art. Last September i have relocated from Delhi NCR to Kolkata. And this decision is costing me dearly apart from the Rs 70000 i have spent in relocation. I wonder if this was the right decision I have made. When you stay far away from family, you really miss them badly. And after 6 years away from Bengal...well honestly i was getting homesick. And this influenced my decision. My wife tried to advice me against this decision but then who cares. I won't say Kolkata sucks as I have just spent few months here but well as far as my driving and the roads in which i drive inside the city...it sucks bigtime! And the politics...and the infrastructure...it sucks it sucks. Here we have a finance minister who donot know the difference between revenue and capital budget (just read a little about West Bengal financial health) and we have a CM in waiting who deserves to be in a mental assylum. And the current CM is power less...so powerless that he has lost control on his speech. He confuses film festival with fish festival! I am really lost in this city. And to add insult to my injury...well my wife stays away from me due to her new job...i get to meet her only over the weekends. Good thing is now i realize her value due to this forced seperation! People realize a person's value only at their absence...otherwise they are just taken for granted.
So whats my plan for future...i don't know. I have to hang on for a while. I have no other option. Only good thing is i have completed my long time dream of driving my own car in my hometown Haldia. Its a feeling which cannot be expresed. You get the feeling when you realize your dream. So I am trying to stick my neck out despite all odds. Lot of people say...well you are close to your family then why the hell you are complaining. Well...its true my home is just 70 km away from Kolkata...from Delhi it was 1570 km. But despite this I am yet to fall in love with this city. During my university days I used to come to Kolkata to buy books every alternate month. And i used to get awestuck seeing this city...the lights, the liveliness. I used to dream of staying over here. And now I am living the dream. But seriously I am not happy. Maybe its because my wife is not staying with me. Maybe its the stupid politicians of Bengal. Or is it the lazy culture? Or maybe its end of November but no sign of winter still. Only time will say. And till that happens I am hanging on trying to be positive. And I am constantly eating the rosogollas, jhal muri and phuchka and the rolls. As they say make hay while sun shines. You never know. I spent 6 years in Delhi but never saw the Red Fort. I dnot want this to be repeatedin K0lkata.
