reuniting with family...

Got off the afternoon flight day before....winter just setting in Kolkata..... a pleasant anticipation is in the winds. The festival of lights is in full swing... lighting up even the meanest streets and corners...The city looks transformed.

Reuniting with my younger brother after a long time... and of course with my parents and elder  brother... The mood is one of quiet happiness at finding ourselves together... Is it only me or is it generally true that as one ages the effusive joy of these get-togethers gets toned down?

Frustrated by the senseless traffic snarls on our way to the Airport to pick-up Sambuddha today, Koushik and I put on the mantle of town planners for a while and came up with a host of brilliant solutions staring from a dedicated fly-over to the aerodrome to a network of sorely needed underpasses... none of which will, needless to say, ever be heeded. So much for 'participatory development'!!  

Signing off for today....