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Just because...

Posted by SMM on 16:13





...I felt like writing
.

..I have been just too bogged down by work


...I haven't written in a while


...A couple of you actually missed me and asked where I was missing


...Its nice to be missed



...To know that I have friends whom I haven't really met but still connect with


...I need to go shopping but just can't find the time


...I also need to exchange my library books


...I like the grey trousers and the black knit top I am wearing today


...I wanted all of you to know that I feel and look good today

...One of my transactions have almost been wrapped up



...We intimidated the opposite side sufficiently enough to make them pay up their dues


...No tax payable on capital receipts

...Termination as opposed to lapse


...Agreement borne out of a lapsed document



...I forgot to charge my Ipod last night

...We were all in office today after ages and went for a noisy office lunch



...The one day I go for an office lunch my phone keeps ringing


...I need to buy a new black coat ...again

...I need to lose weight


...I hope all those nameless cowards lose their own families in blasts



...May God give strength to all those who have lost their near and dear ones in the recent blasts

...Noone even knows what is it that those cowards want besides trying to strike terror


...May God give strength to my maid whose daughter has been kidnapped



...I was helpless that as a lawyer I could do nothing for her - not even accompany her to the police station

...I hate that she is resigned to the fact that she has lost her daughter


...I feel scared whether I will actually see my family tomorrow



...People die and I enjoy a reunion with my friends after years on the same day

...Work never seems to come to an end - its like that serpent - each time you strike one head off, another two come up


....Life must go on - picture abhi baaki hai mere dost

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Who am I?

Posted by SMM on 14:10
I am a Bengali who traveled the length and breadth of my country (since my Dad was with the Indian Navy) before we finally settled down in Calcutta. I was born in Delhi. I started my schooling in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh. I did my Law from Pune University. Of two of my closest friends in Pune - one is a Keralite Muslim and the other is a Parsi while my roommate was part UP-ite and part Kannada. I have spent 3 years during my school life in Bombay, 5 years in Pune and another year working in Bombay before I got married and moved up North. I am married to a man who is part Himachali and part Punjabi. I stay in Gurgaon, Haryana and work in Delhi. My maternal grandparents have never lived in Bengal - they were from Uttar Pradesh. My paternal grandmother grew up in Rajasthan & Simla while my paternal grandfather migrated from Bangladesh. I speak English, Hindi and Bengali comfortably. I can pretty much understand and speak Marathi & a little bit of Punjabi. Arjun converses with my grandmother comfortably - she talks to him in Bengali and he replies in Hindi. 
So what do I call myself?  A Bengali by birth, a Himachali by marriage, a Puneite/ Bombayite  by way of residence, education & work, a Delhiite by way of being born here and now work, a Gurgaonite by way of residence - I am really confused.
Mr. Raj Thakeray who am I? Since you have proclaimed that a person born in Delhi but working in Bombay cannot call himself a Dilliwala, what do I call myself when people ask me? Pray tell.

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