Life - or something like it

First of all  ‘Tons of Thanks’  to all you blogger friends out there who have still stuck on even after I have been on blogging hiatus for more than 3 months now. I had a valid reason guys, I let the ‘Cat out of the Bag’ in my last post. I was so touched by your wishes, it feels so good to be a part of a blogging community which is loving, kind and appreciative. My book was released on the 19th October in Nagpur. Published by Denett & Co., a Nagpur based publishing house. It was a an ecstatic moment for me, more so as I had never imagined that I would be writing a book in a span of two months after stepping off the shores of ‘The British Isles’. It was a dream which materialized after a chance meeting with my co-author ‘Ashutosh Shrivastava’ just three days after leaving Lancaster. In the beginning it all seemed too hard as I was not used to the weather in India. I had to shelve all the plans to meet up friends and family in India whom I had not met in three years. It needed a lo

I know, I know that I have been a bad girl and have completely disappeared from the blogging scene since past two months. Please forgive me for doing this disappearing act. Life dropped me smack on my bottom and I was busy trying to drag my ass towards normalcy. Your good wishes for a safe trip home really did wonders and I am loving it a lot in 'India'. Only thorn on my side is the weather in Nagpur which is merciless. I came back when the temperature was in the upper thirty in degree Celsius which was nearly 25 degrees above what I have been used to, for the past three years. You can very well imagine me slowly getting baked. Moving here from UK has been quite stressful with packing being the major pain in the ‘you know where’. Giving away all the stuff I had collected was the most difficult part. Each time I move I feel I leave behind a part of myself hidden in some corner of every house I ever lived. It is becoming difficult to let go of things, places, people and emo

The winners of the Caption Contest 16 ‘You think you are funny?’   gkam : ' This is what happens when coffee runs out!' Bikramjit : ' Life is Tough... Just three years and I am already WORN out...' Congratulations!!! Drop me a mail at  and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you in another round of Caption Contest this Wednesday. 

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please Write a Caption for the picture below : Good luck! P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here . 

The winner of the Caption Contest 15 ‘You think you are funny?’   Dr. Roshan : ' OK, you guard the cookies while I find a place to hide.. hey !! weren't                           there three of them ?' Congratulations!!! Drop me a mail at  and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you in another round of Caption Contest this Wednesday. 

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please Write a Caption for the picture below : All the Best.   P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here . 

The winner of the Caption Contest 14 ‘You think you are funny?’   1) Shahid Mukadam :  A nd they say people look their best when they are asleep!!!    Congratulations!!! Drop me a mail at  and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you in another round of Caption Contest this Wednesday. 

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please Write a Caption for the picture below : This is to clarify that the chap wearing white is asleep and not mentally challenged. All the Best.   P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here . 

The winner of the Caption Contest 13 ‘You think you are funny?’   1)  Rajlakshmi : ' The H(L)appy Family'    Congratulations!!! Drop me a mail at  and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you in another round of Caption Contest this Wednesday. 

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please Write a Caption for the picture below :    All the Best.   P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here . 

The winners of the Caption Contest 12 ‘You think you are funny?’  1) Rishi : ‘Life's perfect... except when I have to get up to pee’ 2) Lakshmi Rajan : ‘Bedded to the computer’   Congratulations!!! Drop me a mail at and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you in another round of Caption Contest this Wednesday.

As I stepped on the tarmac with tired feet and luggage which was growing heavier by the minute….I was hit by muggy and humid air which sat on my body like a wet blanket. Entering the airport terminal, the cacophony of countless voices and the jostling bodies made it all seem surreal. The sour faced policemen were herding all of us like cattle with their baton and looking down at us with disdain as if we were more of ‘dharti pe bojh’ than 'humans’. Hubs looked at me and said ‘Welcome to India’. The word ‘NRI’ (Non Resident Indian or Non Returning Indian or Non Required Indian)  lost its importance the moment ‘IT’' boom pierced the eardrums of Indians in the year 2004. The frenetic pace at which the ‘IT ‘crowd hauled abroad actually spoiled chances of ‘Non- IT’ people like us, to stand out in the crowd. Now, nearly each house  has someone in ‘pardes’ (foreign land) working for a software firm or doing a Masters in USA, UK or Australia. With the increasing economic develop

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please Write a Caption for the picture below    All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check here .

Apologies for delay in announcing the winner. I am still recovering from my move across the continents. Thanks for your patience friends :) There were so many wonderful entries this time, it was quite difficult for me to choose the winners. The winners of the 11th  edition of the caption contest are : Ritu  :  "Damn! Look at his beer belly, I'll pass" Ravi  : ' Damn - They don't make it as strong as they used to :(' Congratulations !!! Please drop me a mail at   and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you all this Wednesday for another round of Caption Contest.

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please write a caption for the picture below All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here .

This is caption contest  ‘You think you are funny?’ The winner of the 10th  edition of the caption contest is : The NRI :  ' Oh come on, SMILE....' Congratulations !!! Please drop me a mail at   and I will mail you the trophy. Hope to see you all this Wednesday for another round of Caption Contest.

This is a caption contest ‘You think you are funny?’ Please write a caption for the picture below All the Best. P.S: For those people who would like to know the rules, please check  here .

To boldly go where no man has gone before A movie from bygone era when ‘Clerks’ or ‘Sarkari Babus’ were still honest and do gooders and thought taking Baksheesh to push paper was so not kosher. Manoj Kumar plays the part of a poor patriotic clerk called (so clichéd) ‘Bharat’ at the Ministry of Defence. The one who always had a hand on his face and has played a ‘Bharat Maa ka beta’ in most of his movies. The movie starts with ‘ Pitaji’ , Ashok Kumar writhing in pain because of a heart attack. The family is distraught as they don’t have money to pay ‘ Doctor babu ki fees ’. Bharat comes to the rescue with the perfect medicine for a heart attack. To hell with modern medicine..if you have a couple of pencil cells and ‘Azad Hind Fauj’ ka song, you will have the patient singing and marching in no time. The doctors just fool us all with CPR and hospital bills. Daddy deario starts singing and marching in no time as the wifey and baccha log look on with pride. The miracle of a few