On a Roll

For a long time, atleast for me, everything is on a roll.
I am not sure if I have been pushing for things or I should have been pushing so effortlessly that I am not realising that the efforts have been put in.

Now the one in my "Likes" list- another trip to the US is just 2 days away.

I had to go to Kolkata to get my visa done. Kolkata is such a nice place, a nice blend of country side and sky scrapers. All those tall buildings I saw were giving a look of a building that was plastered some 10-15 years ago.

All those broad and nicely laid roads were sheilded on both sides by lake, ditch, garbage or whatever that you will never expect there.

Yellow cabs, hand pulled rickshaws, trams were using the roads while there were a few boats carrying fishermen - fishing in those lakes. You get to see all those in one shot. Remember I mentioned it is a nice blend. It is a metropolitan but still a "poor" state.

There are not many good hotels. You can NOT see a string of Saravana Bhavans, Udupis, Nandhinis there. It was hard for me to find a place for my lunch. I had to settle down in one of the snacks bar in the Metro Shopping Mall.

Again, this shopping mall was a house of some local shops and was not the address of some branded show rooms as one might expect.

I bought a few things - a box of organic tea and a photo frame notable among them - a souvenir I should hold and relish for years to come, until I make my next visit to Kolkata.

Next time I visit I wish I get to see Eden Garden, Ganguly's, Kali temple.

Back to the things that are on a roll for me. I just feel lucky.
Lucky!