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I rarely watch the news everyday as it is plain scary. Yet I need my information and so am compelled to watch at least once a week or so. So today's headlines news(no exaggeration whatsoever) : 1. 20 kids die in a school in Bihar due to food poisoning. As per the report these kids died after consuming food provided by the school that contained high level of some foreign substance ???? (probably insecticide).Doctors and officials took the incidence lightly and did not react promptly. Parents will receive 2 lakhs as compensation. For those living in urban India, 2 lacs does not even buy you a small car or cover your 6 months expenses. This is in Bihar and everyone knows Bihar is a jungle with no law. 2.4 girls raped in Uttarakhand in a hostel (Jharkhand school). The school/hostel is a shed facility looks like a series of huts. Girls were dragged out, principal and teachers locked and tied and girls raped. The parents want the culprits to be hanged. This is a Adivasi...

So here I am settling in Pune and loving the journey back home. Nothing surprises me or shocks me greatly as I am not so new to this environment. I lived in India, in Mumbai for 26 years of my life and was lucky to have enough exposure to the city with all it's beauty and madness. America has changed me however I can still relate and while things have changed quite dramatically India is still India. Now a little perspective. When I was growing up I went to a local SSC school 5 minutes from home. It was a good school, later I realized it was considered as one of the very best schools in Santacruz. Again, good is so relative in a land of over a 1,241,491,960 people (data from world bank). Not too different from saying North Edison has a good schooling system (as compared to what ?? south edison,Iselin, Metuchen or Central NJ, northern,south or East coast or America). So this is the relativity factor. Remember this is just a elementary/high or even middle school. But lets not take ...

My memories of Holi are quite colourful literally.. When I was a kid about 8-10 yrs old Holi was great. It meant filling water balloons and keeping them in a bucket until it filled it with about 50 different colour and size balloons. It was a lot of hard work as many of them busted while filling, after filling and of course the hardest part knotting them up. We would then carefully then take the bucket downstairs and play Holi with colours and water. We had the pichkari or what we now call water guns and spray on each other. This fun lasted for hours and we would get so tired by the end of it. It was really messy and the colours were not always fun, I still remember some kids would use silver colour which would not get off easily and look horrendous. Also, some would use oil colours which also were hideous. Like anything else you had to choose where and whom to play with. For the most part it was safe and fun. Taking a shower and getting all the colour off was no ordinary feat. It t...

I came to the US 10 years back with a lot of baggage 2 suitcases of memories and a carry on of 26 years of me It took a while to unpack and organize into a new life Had to revamp,reorganize,reconsider Some stuff I had to decide to cherish put away in a box in a corner of my heart locked safe Some stuff just had to go.... Slowly got a new wardrobe of life Trying to fit into the new me, while still holding on to my old self Sometimes did splendid,sometimes failed miserably,sometimes just about OK Over time this new me became a part of me, could not tell between the two Slightly confusing,slightly unsure,slightly awkward but taking form Driving my life on the other side of the road no longer right or wrong Just following the law of the land After 10 yrs going back to where it started completing the full circle and the metamorphosis Again carrying a lot of baggage 3 beautiful precious treasures and a man worth his weight in gold Leaving behind a family that is just as ...