Mellow...


If you happen to be anywhere in Kolkata now, I would urge you to take a moment… before the gaudy festivities of Diwali take over, before we start welcoming a frayed, watered down winter (purely out of sentimental reasons), take a moment and breathe it all in … the delicious melancholy of “postpujaness”…
Look around, observe a city overwhelmed with a bittersweet hangover— the skeleton of pandals looming comically large over ever para more, the weary, dark-circled eyes of its denizens, the solemn dismantlers who guiltily go about their work of normalizing the façade of the city and the heaps of crumpled silver foils in street corners which bear mute testiomomy to the city's ravenous appetite…
I am ill-equipped in the philosophies of life, but I can tell you one thing, feeling mellow does you a lot of good…