Streets of Calcutta.

As you sit in cab and look outside through the wet window ..the rain drops sticking to the pain ..till one drop is forced to come down and ..mix with another ..just to trickle down..thoughts go to the time when it continuously rained for 6 days in Calcutta...

I think no city can match Calcutta in its vastness in terms of length and breadth of the place..and communication there minus the metro would have been like hell ..i know it because i went through the hell for some time..Its like a big pipe from your purse goes directly into the pocket of the taxi drivers there..Pretty costly business too..

And the thoughts go to city center, the rickshaws, the sweet shops , the people with round faces ..the aloo curry there ( yucckkk..), the sticky weather , IBM, BCS building..Short stint in Rajahath..the long empty road with zero communication..and a pair of laughing , interesting, appraising brown-black eyes ...

The first time I saw AM was ....hmm..how to put it...was little impactive.. .The first few days i was in the organization we didn't know our mutual existence..until some one told that there was some one from south ..And that's how our first meeting in 'VENUS' happened ..and i met a pair of lively , bright ..in fact 'always laughing' eyes .. ....

Apart from that he had the same male characteristics like any other..and when it was time for me to leave the place..we finally went to a south restaurant ..and then to the museum..
and just had walk on Sunday in the markets there ..like the non-locals who don't belong to the place normally move around to kill and enjoy time in a new place ..just walking , talking in the streets of Calcutta..looking at an antique house at a corner....Actually you find many old houses to see in Calcutta.. or a typical bengali 'bahu' at the other...the 'fish' market there.... the flowers just beside the fish market....the rickshaw wallas who run with the rickshaw(inhuman!!!) ...the normal rickshaws where you can take a ride for 4 to 5 rupees..(That's too inhuman!!!) but you find many like that there..The cheap jewellery shops where me and my cousin one day almost took all the new models for a very nominal sum..(you can bargain like hell!!) ...the 'moorties' made from clay...Leather goods and all...quite artistic slow kind of people..who have no hurry for any thing...

..And it was the last time i took the metro from jadhavpur to Sheela market..

.....and it was the last time i saw of them ..and him...

.......and this Southie came back to South for Good..