TURQUOISE CHILL

Yes finally, this morning, I met with my first bike accident in Kolkata. And accidents are your own fault. Riding I believe is something that requires one's utmost concentration. This morning I left home on my bike with too many things on my mind. Matter's of consequence, but then matter's that had nothing to do with my Kazi. And for once I wasn't true to my her. The rider and bike ought to become one when one is astride his machine. Anyway I rode out from home, took the left and just outside Don Bosco School, a silver Santro came sppeding towards me on the wrong side of the road. I reacted, but not to the environment around me, only to the car hurtling towards me. I faled to realise the other people occupying the road. So while I veered left and saved myself from the oncoming Santro, on my Extreme left were two cyclist following a hand pulled rickshaw. I should've realised that the first cyclist was going into an overtaking maneuver with the richshaw. So while h...

Yeah I know you're thinking how Puchkas and Beer share right of place in the headline. Well when one thing leads to another, that's what happens. Khichdi!! Of course if I start including all of the ingredients of a great evening out, it involves more than all that. From a food point of view the evening started out at New Alipore and a discourse on the finer points of selecting good puchkas. Yeah there are three types I learnt - the Marwari ones, local Bengali ones and I kind of forget the third type. So after feasting on puchkas, we moved over to the papri chat and jhaal moori and believe it or not there are different kinds of moori too. Anyway chat and moori done it moved to Mama Mia's for gelatos. Seriously think they're overrated, but theek hai while your enjoying the company and in the flow of things anything goes. From there the plan moved up on the scale and a decision was made to head to the one street in Kolkata. Park Street was destination numero uno. So Park S...

Man it's been a while since I did justice to what I had set out to do on this blog. So here's an update from the city of joy. I've got to add its 6 pm and on a Saturday evening I haven't a clue what the F&%# am doing in office especially after getting home a bit past 6 am this morning. Anyway yesterday after making a hasty exit from our MD's review presentation and I must add it was awesome, we went for the Kolkata Ad Club Awards night at Swabhumi. Apart from the fact that Arnabi the Radio Mirchi RJ who was compeering a completely chaotic awards ceremony and we reached halfway through the show, we made it in time to pick up the coveted Advertiser of the Year award among several others. Once done the floodgates of the Bar were opened and booze flowed and people drank and more booze flowed and more people started getting drunk and need I say more on a typical gathering of Admen spiked with Alcohol to set their creative spirits free and several of them intoxicated ...

Our first trip to the terrace of the office and all I have to say. What a View!

Well this got news coverage and the fact that we could see it all the way located 4 km or so away from the blaze, it must've been a huge fire. Hope everyone got out safe.