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Hi stupid.. feels a little strange but absolutely stupendously marvellous writing to you like this.. smile.. so much of catching up to do.. but hey.. where do I start.. yeah yeah.. no time and all so gotta keep it short etc etc.. phew!! chill babes.. sometimes you just gotta sift through a whole lotta sand to find gold na.. :((.. and that's what OUR correspondence is gonna be in our lives.. always has been no.. 

so first your hubby.. hope he is doing really well.. gymming and all.. just tell him not to be so hard.. on the machines of course.. haha.. just kidding ya.. hope you are taking care of yourself alongwith him.. sounded kinda weary on the phone.. can't blame you.. remember how we used to talk through the night.. and sleep half the day.. bunking college.. office.. whatever.. totally whimsical.. and Your sis always scolding us.. groan.. about how tough life is gonna get for us.. and how we'd end up working our butts off.. theek hai baba.. you at work.. and home.. and me.. out here.. with that huge huge family.. and work.. and kids.. kids toh bas pata nahin if I can call them that anymore.. smile.. will ask them to send their pics to you.. 

what else can I tell you.. okay you write to me about your daily routine so I can picturize you there.. as for us.. get up real early in the morning as my son still has college.. he's in second year.. for kids it's mostly friends.. college.. work.. gym.. etc.. mealtimes are always together, like it used to be at your place.. have good friends around.. here too my neighbour has the same name as you.. can you imagine that.. know her now for the last maybe 22 years.. and hey I actually 'found' my school-time friend on facebook.. the one who used to live in Our city.... and guess where she has to end up living.. U.K!.. can you believe my luck.. all My close friends all share the same name and all have to live in U.K.. my neighbour too has all her relatives living there only.. spends every holiday there and they keep pushing her to shift.. wow.. 

now film gossip I can't really give you.. my daughter would have been great for this.. you ask in your next mail and I will make her reply.. smile.. send me some book or movie suggestions.. 

you write only when you feel up to it.. I know what you mean by hating to see another computer screen.. but hey.. do write.. because we are blessed enough to have some way of being a part of each other's life despite all this distance.. and we just can't let that go.. you take care of yourself.. 

lotsa love and hugs.. missing ya.. 

Hello bhabhi,

It was really great catching up after so long.. not that it felt like it's been so long.. a strange sense of 'familiarity' and 'comfort' was there:) something that happens with rare select people only.. our interaction fulfilling and what to say about Your son.. there is a very sweet engaging 'pull' in both Your kids.. that is so guileless.. and trusting.. and all I can say is.. hope you are able to reconcile the painful realizations that assail us on the path to ourselves.. and find peace within it's essential transience.. 

Hi babes.. it was a moving film freeze-framed just for me.. smile.. your description of your day.. so overwhelming to me personally.. melting distances.. into heartwarming conversations.. where you know you are heard..felt.. and understood.. 

and I don't want to be writer viter.. just to reach out to you.. aur vaise bhi.. letters parh le wahan tak to bahut hai.. novel parhne bola toh.. groan.. can't do that to you na.. smile.. Diwali was real hectic out here as usual.. sometimes I wonder about all these rules and customs.. if we are ruling them or they are ruling us.. smile.. remember our rebellion about everything.. and the song.. 'saare niyam torh do'.. when that minister (with his strict rulebook) and his family were putting up with us and we put this song so loud just to kinda 'drum it in'.. 

so anyways we have an early morning puja at office.. and then at home in the evening.. and again I wonder why we appoint pujaris for pujas to connect with 'God'.. the one and only Being who none can veil from.. and then we all laugh at that ad where 'saku bai' is going for aerobics on Madam's behalf.. smile.. crazy world hmm.. just the other day we were having our book club meet at Oxford.. and one lady who is into just about everything.. like manically she keeps pursuing one course after another.. and she says despite it all I feel I haven't achieved anything in life.. and I asked her.. what did Buddha achieve by just watching his own breath.. or any of the 'enlightened' masters.. achievement is so personal and unique to every Individual.. as per their life lesson and readiness for it.. and you should have seen her smile.. the book we were discussing was 'the last lecture'.. really good one.. upholding old-school values and beliefs.. with nuggets of advice for teachers.. parents.. and students all at the same time.. a dying man's effort to leave behind 'live' snippets for his children.. inputs that a Father would normally provide as a part of growing up.. 

so many times I wish you were here.. smile.. always could enjoy just about everything together.. chaahe phir woh tarot ho ya palmistry.. spirit calling ya astrology.. reading ya movies.. eating paan or paan paraag.. chilled drinks and naming ceremonies (lamp post, chashmish, muchharh, romeo etc etc etc).. smile.. kuchh bhi karte thhe.. the pleasure was in the company.. in it's purest guileless form.. 

love ya and take care.. 

Hey,

Am sorry about the late response as have not checked mail for more than a week i think. Good to hear from you after so long, even though its to share a tragic and unfortunate occurrence. People who say tragedy brings people closer, should add tragedy makes people write:) Sorry! sometimes humor gives us the much needed respite to face the myriad hues of a whimsical life. When someone close to us writes about a traumatic situation, we immediately become a part of it, and it no more remains simply a news item, to be shrugged off as an unfortunate incident. I could empathize with the fear, shock, awe and prayer in your words. Mother Nature in all her glory continues to humble our perceptions of invincibility.. For nothing stands in the way of her wrath.. I really hope and pray for the people in the midst of this devastation.. May God give them the strength to overcome their losses and rebuild a better future! Please take care.. And stay in touch..