Is Kolkata a DEAD city??

Shocked or surprised? Well I don't know about you, but I am both at the very thought of writing a blog on this topic. Don't think I have lost my mind or something....I am writing this blog with a complete normal state of mind (I know some of my frnds will not think so).I shouldn't say normal..coz rite now m disgusted and very angry seeing my city.
Two months prior to my departure I did take my flight tickets, thinking it wud be cheaper the earlier i take. Have irritated all my project mates telling them each day how excited I was to go to my own city, my home town after 2 years. I did lot of shopping too coz I wanted to look my best in front of my relatives, school and college frnds , as I was about to meet them after a long time.
The flight from Mumbai to Kolkata was a very different experience for me as there were bongs sitting around me, talking in Bengali. Staying in Mysore/Hyderabad/Mangalore for the past two years, such kind of a thing was little weird for me as most of the times there were people talking in all languages other than beng.
The taxi ride from airport to Behala didnt influence me to write this blog as it was just the very first day I had experienced such a huge traffic jam after 2 years. I didn’t pay much attention to the traffic when I got diverted to each and every wall of the City which was decorated with either CMP/Congress symbols or their candidate names. I again tried not to pay attention to these and thought of relaxing for a while when my taxi got stuck in a water logged lane. It had rained only for an hour and the water was knee deep. Somehow I managed to reach home.
The rosogollas, pantuas, pabda macher jhol, eelish mach ,misti doi, aalu bhaja, aalu posto, aamer chaatni.... all tried to keep me busy for a few days and away from the thought that where is this city heading to. But that couldn’t happen for long. The reality came in front of me again the day I stepped outside Vishal Apartment. The place called Manton, which is 10 mins walk from my house, took 30mins by bus. You must be wondering y did I board the bus at all. Well that too has a reason. Even the little inches which were left to walk at the side of the road were preoccupied by garbage! The hot and humid temperature made life even more miserable.
The next day I almost had a fight with a friend's friend whom I didn’t even know and I started narrating them how disappointed I was seeing my city in this state. The guy replied me "its good like this only......ekhono ekhane det takar cha pawa jaye"(still we get Rs1:30/- tea here in Kolkata) and I told blatantly on his face....."for such kind of mindset the city is still in a mess”. Thankfully he didn't punch me. Thought about it later and felt...it’s not his fault. Even I used to think the same way when I was in Kolkata 2 yrs back. I guess there is something in the air which gives Kolkattans a 'laid back attitude'! All people seemed to be worried about is- will Argentina or Brazil win? I smiled at them thinking what are they going to get even if they win. Maradonna/ Pele/ Messi......they dont even know.....so many Kolkattans pray for them..fight with each other......go around the city with Argentina/Brazil flags when they win.
I guess this is what it makes it sooooooo different from other cities. I had started my blog with lot of enthu and anger....planning to write about the roads/lack of good colleges/lack of companies/industries/our useless politicians...but deep down inside I too feel that let it be the way it is......as its the only city where u can still find tram. Its the only city where u can still find people spending hours and hours in 'adda'...its the only city with more number of celebrations than the number of months in a year.....its the only city where u can find a full meal getting served at the side of the lane with just Rs15/-......its the only city where people still have time to ask u how u r.....its the only city where people r not that conscious of their facts n figures ;)......its the only city which celebrates when Maradonna gives a goal.....yess....its the only city...."jekhane ekhono det takar cha pawa jayei".
As long as Kolkattans have the spirit of enjoying each and every day.....each and every moment even in those huge traffic jams, long queues (for autos/taxis/anything), hot rising temperatures, dirty roads, portholes..............we can definitely not term Kolkata a DEAD city A city is made of its people and we the Kolkattans are always gonna keep it LIVE.
So as my blog says.........Life is beautiful.....i can say.....So is my hometown Kolkata beautiful. :)

Yet again.....m here at the bloggers zone.I know i am blogging after a looooooong looooooong time.Dont know y i was absent from here....may be becoz i didnt hav much time(thts the only excuse i can think of as of now)
Rite now m sitting at mangalore....yes, m at mangalore......I never thought in my wildest dreams tht i would be in mangalore (for more than 8 months now).
I always tell my frnds...my life is very "adventerous"....as things keep on n on happening in my life.I can easily write a book on my life as these folks like Chetan Bhagat n Ravinder Singh have. Rite now m reading a book "I too had a love story" by Ravinder Singh( an Infoscion too) which is inspriring me more to write a book. Someday i believe i would :).
Lot of things have changed in my life from the last time I had blogged.I was in Hyderabad then. After that,went to mysore for my training at Infosys. Infosys mysore is like an 8th wonder of the world and the training there was equally awsome. I enjoyed each n every part of it. We never thought what time it was or which day it was....what all we actually understood was....compre,exams,modules,retest,recompre,handson :).
Our batch also had an extended training and some of us were sent to Hyderabad for it.My home being in H yderabad...made me feel lucky that time. I even started dreaming of getting my posting there. The training in hyderabad was good....but not as good as tht in mysore for me...coz i had to leave my best pals in mysore. The only good thing was,every weekend i could go home. Yes,i used to go home on weekends n other days stayed in ECC coz my home was 2hrs from office.
In Hyderbad too, i made some really good frnds, which i realized only after leaving them. Most of them being marathi hav made me learn a few marathi words ...n the very first word being.."CHYAMAILA"(please pardon me)!.People say,if you get to learn any new language from your frnds,you always start with a slang. As i never use slangs,n came to know about the meaning of the word only after learning it....it was kind of embarassing for me as i had used it on a girl unknowingly....just to show tht i too knew marathi :P. But my frnds keep telling me "its a verrrrrrrry common word yaar....chalta hai....even Kareena has used it in Jab We Met(in different language though)".
Anyway.....training in Hyderabad too got over and with that my hopes of getting posting in Hyderabad also ended.I came to know i was posted in Mangalore....a place about which i had absolutely no idea....except for one thing tht it sounded similar to Bangalore :P.
Tears didnt stop rolling down from my eyes the day our postings were announced. People tried to console me a lot but more than going away from my home the fact which made me sad was again i had to leave my frnds and go to a new place with all strangers.I was literally fed up of leaving my frnds n shifting to different places as that is wat all i was doing rite from my childhood days. As my dad is in a tranferrable job, we had to shift from one place to the other every 3 to 4 yrs.
Had no option and so with a positive thinking i started my journey to mangalore...thinking again of making new frnds.This post is not about my life in mangalore coz will write about it in my next post.....instead its about all my frnds whom i miss here BADLY. I just want to thank them for tolerating me n being there for me whenever i needed them.
So now,for the first time i would start naming them......
Thanks to Mahima,Sunil bhaiya,Nivedita and Ruchi who were all the time there with me in Mysore. Guys you were my strength there and you all r the only reason y i enjoyed my training days.
Some more frnds who were with me in mysore are Rika,Shashank,Kushal,Anamitra,Sujoy,Chitralekha,Gosawi,Harpreet,
Ajay.
The frnds i made in Hyderabad are...Kedar,Peeyush,Gaurav,Aniket,Parikshit,Laxmikant,Vikrant,
Supriya,Umran,Ashutosh,Mayank,Ritika,Ashi,Nisha,Melisa
Thanks a lottttttttt to all of you!! This post is mainly for you all, just to say.....I miss you all :)
(Sorry if i have missed a few names :)....it only could be becoz you r too special to be mentioned!! :P)
Anyway....me signing off now....hopefully would be back in the bloggers lane verrrrry soon as a lot of things do keep happening in my life.......so much tht i dont get time to pen them down ;).
Ciao!

1st December of my life-MEI JANU NA

Kyun har subah ke baad raat aaye
Kyun mein royun toh uparwala muskurayei
Kyun kabhi kabhi zindagi tham si jayei
Mei jaanu na....

Kyun zindagi har waqt us mor par le ayei
Jahan do pal ki khushi peeche hazaaron gum chor jayei
Kyun mein na ban saku won pannchi
Jo sukoon ki neend payei
Kyun,
Mei jaanu na....

Kyun jispeh bhi bharosa kiya
Usi neh gum ke siwa kuch na dia
Kyun har baar fir bhi yeh galati maine kia
Kyun,
Mein jaanu na....

Kyun laga ki kuch toot sa gaya
Kyun aisa laga ki tu choot sa gaya
Kyun tu mujhse itna rooth sa gaya
Kyun har baadal kala lage
Mei jaanu na....

Zindagi mujhe us mor peh layi
Kisi apne ne di gum ki duhayi
Vishwaas ki har neev tooti
Upar walei seh mei bhi poochi
"kyun har baar, mein hee kyun"
Toh bas muskuraya aur bole "Mei jaanu na...."

last but one "BYE"

Holidays are here again.........here to make me get bored to the core!!But its not the usual holidays like the previous ones.In earlier ones i have always enjoyed to the fullest the first few weeks till i got bugged up by 'just enjoying'.This holiday is the last one after which i will have a reason to get back to my college......to enjoy the few more left over months of innocence!!Yes,my college life is going to get over....and the next holidays i get are the final tatasss to all my friends!The very thought of this is killing me!

I have never thought I am going to miss my college life as much as my school days because I have had some real tough time with people here @ coll.Starting from my very first year when my own classmates boycotted me for attending a class and the the times where i had some cold exchange of words with some of my classmates,life has never been simple since I have started my coll life. I have always been putting myself in various kinds of troubles knowingly or unknowingly.But hey trust me guys,even I had come to college with the dream of not only doing well in academics,of not only earning a good name from teachers,of not only getting a good job,but also to make great friends.Till now I had thought though I have done pretty well in academics and all....I was lacking in making good friends.But as the days of leaving college is nearing....i wonder y am i feeling so bad,so melancholy,feeling as if something is about to go.....something is about to leave me forever.Thinking on it deeply,i have come to understand that it is only because of my friends I am feeling this.Yes,even I have made some really good friends.Friends who are and will be there whenever i will need them.I do not need to name them because if they are reading this I am sure they very well understand whom all I am speaking of :) So,hey guys..........I have no words to thank you......I just want to say I LOVE U ALL.....and thanks for being there by my side.I know I have many times spoken harsh words.....but it was all because I expected a lot from u all.

Having said about my friends...........I feel i am not yet ready to leave college so soon.I had just started enjoying it,started making new friends,started interacting with all my classmates making me believe that some are even better than me!!!I just want the next 3 months of coll to keep going and going never to end.Don't want to face the reality that "All things that start have to end someday".

Though i know i will have to accept this fact sooner or later......i just want the last few moths to go really nice and rocking so that it stays in my heart etched forever. With all this hope I just want to thank God for making me join this coll when i had various other options for me...because of which i could make some real good friends and now i want to proudly say that ITME is 'my' coll and i will keep on cherishing each and every moment spent there.

ALONE AND LONELY

Yelling loudly,
But there is no sound.

There is no one here,
Nobody to be with me.

On this lonely night,
I walk the streets.

I look at the ground,
And watch every step I take.

I stop under a streetlight,
And I start to say.

Forever I am alone,
In the dark, in the night.

If I knew life was going to be like this,
So dead, so lonely.

I would have ended it,
Left this world, been gone forever.

Who would be there to notice?
Nobody, not one soul.

Because there is no one here,
Which leaves me so alone.

--Clint Sheppard

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges but these high walls make one find oneself!! “We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

Pujo fever!

"aaye re chute aaye pujor ghondho esheche.......".
Yes,pujo is yet again knocking at the door,just 2 more days n the festival will start when the entire city will be celebrating for the same cause!The entire city gets decked up as if its her wedding.Though there is a lot of rush of people pushing here and there like some maniacs.....yet its fun to be one of such insane lot. One goes into the city and sees queues of people,foodies,stalls,pandals,beautiful lighting.Any outsider mite make him wonder...are people of Kolkata just crazy,how can they stand for hours at a stretch,waste so much of time and money for five days if not more!!But i think its always not so nice to be sensible.I think its fine to live for ourselves for five days,to be a little selfish and do things whatever we want to in these five days.Tho 'addas' with frnds is waste of time...tho spending money on so much of unnecessary stuff is baseless...tho standing in long queues is such a wate of energy......i think its fine for we Kolkatans as we sometimes like thinking from heart and not from head!!And i think its worth living this way.......coz "jeelo harpal khusiyon mein,kyunki kya pata kal ho na ho..." I don't know whether i will be able to be a part of such celebration next year or not because i will be moving out of this city next year,so i want to celebrate this puja with fun and frolic.Wishing happy pujas to every one.Have fun guys. : )

LIFE @ HP @ CJ-30!

My training at HP has come to its end.I dont know y i m feeling a little sad coz there was nothing over there to feel sad about on leaving but if i think over it n ponder for sometime i see a few reasons for my feeling a little low.
First,i had got used to tht place coz i had gone n attended classes almost everydy except for the days i was a little sick.
Second,it was the first time i have felt wat it is having a hectic day.I felt as if i was working in some company,going out at 6:30 morning then after classes doing project with frnds till 8pm!!
Third,my class mates over there were really very sweet n nice.There were students from BCET Durgapur,CIT,SIT,Netaji Subhas n ofcourse my own ITMEians.It was really nice to be around with new people,talk to them......we all had become sooo frndly tht we used to pull each others leg,crack jokes,have fun.
Fourth our Sir was more of a brotherly figure than a teacher.He is a very amiable person n we all liked him.He even taught us much better than the teachers at other classes( thts the feedback we had got frm other frnd in other classes) n finally I really enjoyed working for the project with my 5 other group members.It was nice sitting together n working in a team.:)
I dont know how much i have learnt from this training n project....all i can say is tht i am gonna miss my life @ hp which according to me was beautiful!!