Following is a selection of the "status messages" posted on my FB account. Just for the record.
1. Yesterday, I have been to the one and only Kolkata International Book Fair '14 at the Milan Mela grounds, just off Science City. I was hoping to have a quiet affair on my visit there but it turned out the opposite. While I was browsing books at the Ramakrishna Mission bookstall, my cousin was being offered a modelling assignment by a media photographer outside! He was also photographed up close by another female photojournalist!! What a lucky day for him.
Now I usually envy no one, but yesterday I was a little perturbed by the kind of attention he got. But never mind. Who cares for a family man these days! Sure I can model for a shawl or a lungi then?
- FB post, 4 Feb 2014
2. These days in Hyderabad girls have begun looking like the modern-day 'Alif Lailas', 'Razia Sultans', and 'Janshi Laxmi Bais'! Making use of their long stoles and scarves to cover up their faces while driving seems to have caught on big time!
- FB post, Jan 2014
3. Enjoying a lip-smacking ~Chicken Roll~ from La Jawaab standing on a pavement near City Mall, overlooking the tastefully decorated (like an English castle) Kali Pooja mandap in Kolkata. I just gotta have fun, don't I? ;-)
- FB post, Dec 2013
- FB post, 4 Feb 2014
2. These days in Hyderabad girls have begun looking like the modern-day 'Alif Lailas', 'Razia Sultans', and 'Janshi Laxmi Bais'! Making use of their long stoles and scarves to cover up their faces while driving seems to have caught on big time!
- FB post, Jan 2014
3. Enjoying a lip-smacking ~Chicken Roll~ from La Jawaab standing on a pavement near City Mall, overlooking the tastefully decorated (like an English castle) Kali Pooja mandap in Kolkata. I just gotta have fun, don't I? ;-)
- FB post, Dec 2013
4. Ruskin Bond is one of my favourite Indian writers. His books have made my days so wonderfully awake in life. Mr. Bond's latest book "Tales of Fosterganj" is one such delightful addition to my personal collection. Read this simple storybook and you will feel refreshed. Not to be missed. Go buy now.
Up next on my reading list this year is: "The Storyteller of Marrakesh" by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya. Equally breath-taking.
This book is considered to be the "masterpiece work" by Mr. Roy-Bhattacharya. Originally planned as a trilogy, the second book in the series is yet to be out. The book is well produced.
- FB post, Nov. 2013
5. Just been to City Center, Rajarhat to shop and make merry and get some me-time to kick out some old unwanted memories associated with some of my belligerent, 'over-smart' and uncouth relatives out of my mind. Thank God for the day!
- FB post, 18 Mar. 2014
- FB post, 18 Mar. 2014
(Note: No chronological order (meaning date-wise) was followed while I was reposting the above messages here in my blog.)
By Arindam Moulick
Pix courtesy: Internet
By Arindam Moulick
Pix courtesy: Internet