Reflections - A Journey Through Life

Would we be together? As I opened the homepage of a popular website, a photo and its headline stared at me – Hot Chemistry between Nitin and Vrinda. Ever evolving, popular websites now routinely include news as a major content to hold on to the fickle attention of surfing populace. Lazily I looked at the faces of the new stars. I am not a movie buff at all, but still I felt I had seen the names of these up and coming stars somewhere, such is the power of media! Whenever we open our eyes nowadays, we are liable to be bombarded with tidbits on celebrities. The first thing I observed in this case was the long faces – both Nitin and Vrinda had longish looking faces with intent eyes. Nothing wrong with that. All ambitious stars and starlets have such intent eyes. Not the eyes, something with the faces. I looked at the photo more closely. Then suddenly my memories came rushing in from distant past and gave a new meaning to the faces of these two young people. They looked so much a...

  Mingling together Tukai deserved an evening out. I gave him options— “Music World? Oxford?” “No way”, his answer was emphatic— it has to be a special dinner. He loves to eat. We call him a gourmet and an evening out with him must nothing less than be a grand dinner. I knew this but teased him a bit. “Where to go?” Quick came the reply, “Park Street.” In our city most of the good old restaurants are bunched up along this half a kilometer long strip. “So be it”, I concurred. We started walking from where Park Street begins. I told him, “We will walk slowly and look around. Whichever place takes our fancy we will step in.” It was a cool Saturday evening. At this time of the year before summer sets in, sea breeze makes the evenings very pleasant. Happily we strolled. Me talking non-stop as I do with him and he responding occasionally at right places with right sounds. We were on the left sidewalk and I knew that a few of the most desirable destinations are situated on...