Resurgence

Pursuit of a Bhoot Living in the valleys of mighty Himalayas has its own charm. And I spent four precious years of my life in the foothills of Himalayas studying (now this may be an exaggeration) Engineering. My father still maintains that NIT Hamirpur boasts of one of the most picturesque campuses in the country. He stayed there for two days and me for 4 years. However, Hamirpur as a small, sleepy town would be off the tourist trail of many visiting Himachal. It is the headquarters of one of the largest and most literate district of Himachal and still is not as ‘urbanized’ as many would want it to be. And expectedly the avenues of entertainment would be limited. Thus, once a group of ‘First Years’ were done with the ‘charms’ of visiting the town (read: roaming freely on roads away from seniors; eating ‘Mommos’, ‘Samosas’ & ‘Jalebis’; eyeing beautiful local girls & watching movies in the local ‘Video Halls’) they had no other option than to sit together and enjoy (This was most...

At the Mecca of World Cricket They call it the ‘Mecca of World Cricket’ – it certainly is especially when you are chanting ‘Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo’ along with the capacity crowd (okay it should be the existing capacity crowd. Few blocks of the stadium are closed for renovation/ reconstruction work). I went to watch my first match at Eden (after living in Calcutta for more than 6 years) yesterday with lots of expectations and was not disappointed with what I saw. When I ventured out of my PG at around 2pm, I confronted a raging Sun. As I left the auto 5 minutes later, I was in the advance stages of sweating. However, I must acknowledge I was not properly ‘geared’ to wage on a battle with the mighty sun. With a dark coloured full shirt and jeans, I was inappropriately dressed for the occasion – pointed one of my friends. As always I took it as another testimony of my ‘terrific’ dressing sense. It took sometime before the entire group assembled at the destined pla...