Procession Leads to Traffic Jam

The Firday night traffic jam outside my place was one of the worst I've seen till date. OK Muharram might have been a bit worse, but for the first time I saw traffic headed towards the bridge spilling over to the other side too.

Anyway I got on the pavement and managed to get home. Only once I was up on the 4th floor did I realise how ludicrous the situation really was. And guess what? I had plans to go out. How on earth was I gonna get out of this one. Anyway I did manage to, since the traffic did clear out by 10 pm.

Worthy of mention was a band playing at Some Place Else. Jazz is always welcome and soothing to my ears and Pink Noise as the band was called did a fine jig that evening. Comprising of erstwhile members of bands, most notably "Amyt Dutta" of "Shiva" fame (the Most rocking band in Kolkata of my school days).

Pink NoiseGyan Singh - Bass
Amyt Dutt - Guitar
Jivraj 'Jiver' Singh - Drums
Jayashree - Vocals

When I finally got home, a blanket of fog lay seige upon Kolkata and it was Winter was making a last ditch effort to linger on. I think it lost as the next morning was bright and sunny.