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After long-time


Hmm, I am writing after long time, seven months. That's very long time. I apologize to my readers for this. This is my laziness. But, there are reasons like, busy schedule at office and little dull environment nearby. It's not that nothing happened in this period. In-fact some things happened which are rare. 

For example flood situation in Chennai. November in last year was full of rain. Chennai seen very bad situation. It was emergency. People were stranded, lost everything, nothing to eat, nowhere to hide. I too faced this flood without electricity for 30 hours, network, mobile, internet down. I seen how things can change quickly and how our normal life can get disturbed. On the very next day of flood, there was fear among people for shortage of food, water, milk, cash. I seen very long queues outside ATM centers. And this was not first time for me. In 2005, I faced exactly same situation in Mumbai. But I must say I was lucky both the time that I was away from ground zero. This flood disturbed life for sure. I was not able to celebrate Diwali. It made me very sad. And so I was not happy for writing.

There are some good things that happened in this time span too. I went at my hometown twice. I got chance to attend Ganesh festival at home. At Chennai, I attended a literary festival, I got to hear from some great and renowned  writers, I found one very good place to spend evening in Chennai on the weekends. I was really in need of this. I will write about it separately. 

So far so good..summer is on the way. Days are becoming longer, brighter, temperature is increasing. There are two upcoming events I will be witnessing. One is Twenty twenty cricket world cup and Tamilnadu state elections. Hopefully next quarter will be full of events and cheer. I will try to keep myself encouraged to keep up writing. Yes, when you are away from home you have to take special efforts to be encouraged. Also, soon I am planning to start my visits to some of the south Indian places. I see to write more about my visits as and when time comes. See you soon.


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