Filed under: Stories..., craps ... — chapters @ 11:04 AM
Everybody knew her to be lucky, as when she was around anybody, he/she could get any of his/her wishes come true. When she was there, nothing could go wrong.
Her father realised this the day she was born and he got a promotion.
Her mother realised this after she came into her and their financial problems started to vanish slowly but permanently.
Her brother realised this the day she tied the first Rakhi on his hand and he had his first pocket money.
Her best friend realised this the day she was with her and the man of her dreams proposed her.
Her husband realised this the day he saw her with her best friend for the first time and found the love of his life.
But she knew onething which nobody knew… she was a honest “Luck Ditributor”. She could only distribute luck to others and when it came to her, her lucky pot was always empty.
She knew this, but she actually realised this the day her husband put his hands around her neck and choked her to death just after proposing to the love of his life, her best friend.
Filed under: Stories... — chapters @ 12:17 PM
“Did you see that?”
“What???”
“That man waved at me… and smiled…”
“Which man??? Hey wait… have you gone mad?”
“But I saw him looking at me before he started waving… I swear.”
“That’s just not possible… May be he waved at somebody behind you.”
“Yeah… you are right… I am gone out of mind; Let’s get out of this place… Crowded places make me nervous.”
“Okay… Let’s go.”
And they strolled past the man who ,she thought, waved at her… now busy reading a book. She shook her head and moved away.
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When both of them finally moved out of the room, he looked up, closed the book he was pretending to read and smiled. He could not restrain himself from waving at a such a beauty. Since he had had the ability to see them, he had only seen dreadful ones. Her startled expression, seeing him waving at her, was funny… Did she got frightened!!! After all they are not used to getting a wave from a human.
“I must not frighten beautiful girls… err… beautiful ghosts again…“, he chuckled.
Filed under: Behind the screen..., Funny!!!, Very strange!!, uuphh yeh life!!! — chapters @ 12:04 PM
You know, it feels wonderful and lovely when a complete stranger in a crowded train recognises you by just your name and praises you for something you had done 2 years back… 
Yes, it happened with me.
Last Friday, after office, I was at the Howrah station to board a train to Bhubaneswar, my home-town. At about 10.30 PM, the train came to the platform. All the people boarded the train and so did I. After I located my bearth, I sat there waiting for the train to start the journey.
There was another girl sitting in front of me. Due to some reason, the conversation started. Lets call her, Girl I Met On The Train (GIMOTT).
GIMOTT : Which company are you in?
Me : XYZ.
GIMOTT : Ohh… I am also in the same company. [Smiles]
Me : Oh… That’s good! [Smiling back]
GIMOTT : What’s your name?
Me : Sxxxxxx…
GIMOTT : Sxxxxxx what?
Me : Sxxxxxx Sxxxx. [Successfully omitted my middle name which I really hate]
GIMOTT : Sxxxxxx Sxxxxxx Sxxxx ??? [Successfully re-added my middle name which I seriously hate]
Me : How do you know my full name??? [Totally Surprised... ]
GIMOTT : You contributed some story in our company’s creative writing competition?
Me : Yes… but that was long time ago… around 2 years back.
GIMOTT : You won’t believe… I was very eager to meet you. That story was awesome and after reading that I tried to find you out, but never could.
Me : [Now beaming and smiling from ear to ear] Oh really… Thank you
She was talking about my first story Forgiven, which got a runners up award in my company’s creative wrtiting competition. I was really pleased, that someone, a total stranger, could recognize me for some story I had written a long time back. At that moment I thought about updating my blog, continue writing. Who knows, some other day, in some other train, I would meet some other stranger who also would know my middle name!!! 
Filed under: Down the memory lane... — chapters @ 8:00 PM
Have you ever been to Bhubaneswar (Capital of Orissa and well-known as The Temple City) ? I am born and brought up there. I had spent around 22/23 years there. It used to be a not-so-metro-like city. These days, with the help of few IT companies, it is grooming. But I am not going to talk about those IT companies and the impact on Bhubaneswar. I just want to tell that, my city, Bhubaneswar has emerged like a beautiful place recently. Within last 2 years, I have marked the change… asif the whole city is celebrating beauty. The roads are smooth and clean, the road side walls are full of hand painted pictures… The next time I go, I will click some pictures and post them on my blog. Much of the street vendors are given a vending zone by the BMC (Bhuabaneswar Municipal Corporation), which is parallel to the street but away from it. This avoids the un-necessary crowd on the roads.
This time, a new traffic rule has been activated… helmets for both riders of the 2-wheelers. Unlike the metros, people in small towns use more 2-wheelers. The streets are full of bikes, scooties, scooters… Most of the families (let’s say the lower middle class families, which adds most to the population of a small town like BBSR) have as many 2-wheelers as the family members. Scooty is considered as an ideal gift for the girl of the family who cleared the class 10th exam successfully, and a bike serves the same purpose for a boy.
So you can well imagine a typical busy BBSRian road and most of the accidents are actually very severe. Lots of people get fatal injuries due to the lack of basic interest in their safety… They know that wearing helmets can save their lives. But still people avoid it god knows why!!! I don’t understand why people wait till Government makes a rule. The traffic police does not lose something if you don’t wear a helmet. It is you who will lose. Even I heard few complaining about the rule. Whatever, atleast due to this rule people are wearing helmets these days. Actually not for the sake of the rule, they wear helmets just to avoid the fines
Anyways, some rules (read fines) are making our road trips little safetier in BBSR.
… To be continued.
Filed under: Essays — chapters @ 2:36 PM
See These Photographs
Don’t forget to click on the photographs to see the lights going out. I also switched off my flat’s lights on 28th March from 8.30 PM to 9.30 PM. But this photo series does not include my flat’s pics 
On another note, it is a revolutionary step taken. We should co-operate with such things.
