December 06, 2018

On Twenty Years Ago, again...

We're less than 48 hours away from our school reunion, and this one's special!

8th of December marks the 20th year reunion of the Hindu Senior Secondary School's class of 98 ( If you passed your XIIth from there, as I did) and at first approximations it looks like the quorum is going to be well past the 50 mark. That's a lot of folks making the pilgrimage back to our alma mater given that there's a really huge percentage of folks stationed overseas.

A huge huge vote of thanks is in order for those who've devoted a huge amount of time and effort to make this happen. It will be a crazy party and an awesome get together, I'll get to meet a lot of peeps after twenty years, some even longer given that there's folks coming who were classmates till Xth, VIIIth, etc..

But the true icing on the cake will be the chance to meet some of the most dedicated teachers I've ever had the privilege of learning under ( I can say this with some basis having studied at 3 different schools across Mumbai and Chennai - with two stints at HSSS, Indiranagar, Adyar)

Will update this blog later sometime this week with pics from what promises to be a hugely rewarding and rejuvenating journey down memory lane...

November 13, 2018

An Ode to Cleopatra...

To darkness' questions, light shall attempt an answer,
Scarce else in all this cosmos is equipped to scale,
The summit of the climb the questions pose...

To the stench of our daily lives, even a bloom can rejoinder,
Nothing putrid nor fetid nor rank stands a chance,
Against the seductive virtue of a fragrant tuberose...

To Caesar's fervid anxiety to comprehend and still this entirety,
Only one force will deliver resolution,
There is only one Cleopatra in all this unending infinity,
As everyone but Cleopatra knows...