Ahh finally a sense of catharsis prevailed.....after 4 months of needless slogging and doing donkey work at my office the destined day came when i had to catch the flight and leave for kolkata to meet my sis who had come from germany after 1 yr.....it was family gettotogether kinda occasion which had the chutzpah similar to some marriage function....As it happens with all of my trips,me being a bit too overcautious ,i reached the sprawling bangalore airport 4 hrs before the departure,because it was my maiden visit to the "state of art" bangalore airport and the fact that i had heard from the sources that it was 40 kms away from banagalore,forced me to be a tad bit prissy as far as my eagerness to reach dre was concernd..to be precise the moment i reached dre it seemd that my mobile was regurgitating a slew of welcome messages ..Talking about the location of bangalore airport i still cant fathom what was going inside airports authorities mind while building it so near(pun intended) to the city....given an opportunity i m pretty sure they wudnt have hesitated in starting an airservice to ferry people from bangalore to bangalore airport....People wud have to book airtickets to reach bangalore airport and then another ticket for the destination....!!!!!!lols......Amidst all the hustle-bustle and nervous excitement i somehow managed to reach "KOLKATA"..From the moment i sat my foot on the sanctimonius "bong"ground to the point i reached my home sweet home there was so many things which forced me to nod my head in disbelief....
The drama began when we wre ferried from cockpit to subashchandra bose exit terminal by the airservice bus when mobile phones of people around me started ringing.With the modus operandi of anxious relatives being,, to leave no stone unturned in making sure that they got their feelings of anxiety known to the entire world by calling umpteenth times....and the victim in picture ie the passneger(sadly but true!!!!!) swearing the statement again and again "aami ekhhun dhukchi aar tomi asbo na" (pleading not to come to airport to chaperoon them back to home),,everything looked so comical,that i was not able to prevent my sheepish smile..
Talking about kolkata,the first thing which stroke me was the overwhelming mass of people.milling,teeming,jostling,thronging,pushing,shoving and myriad of other preternatural human activities....other places in the world are crowded too but then people dre are engaged in some purposive activity but here hawking,spitting,peeing,crapping,digging their noses.hanging about without any goal..people not as human projects but as primal anatomy.....
but again at the back of my mind ,like a reverie thoughts wre overwhelming me at a prodigious rate...what is that which separates kolkata from the rest of india????was it the scent of parched earth drenched by monsoon showers or was it the accomodative jostle and bustle of the kolkata bazaar,with its myriad hues and tastes,sounds and smells ..while all these and a million other perceptions ,do make my impression of coming to kolkata ,what caught my attention was the "perennial scowling face which every bong made upon seeing u"???kee rey.......??????
nevertheless the excitement had just begun........
TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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