A visitor to India

Sitting in an airport waiting for your flight gives you lots of time and limited choice of activities. I am charging my laptop and having no internet I have decided to pen down my thoughts about the last 30 days which I have spent in India.

A month ago, I board my flight to India eager to meet loved and missed ones but I also think will my dog remember me?? Will I be able to drive on Indian roads?? How many of my friends have moved on??

I was picked up from the airport by my mom and everything seemed so different, somehow unfamiliar for a city in which I have spent 24 of my 26 years!! I blame it on the new international airport which is like a city away and the traffic which according to me has worsened. The irony was the only thing which was familiar was the total lack of road sense or courtesy shown by autos and taxis!! :p “ I won’t be able to drive in this madness!!”

Being a foodie (believe me it shows L) I used to prize myself on knowing most of the eating joints in my city, but on familiar roads I saw unfamiliar restaurants and lack of some known ones. Some of it saddened me, others looked like new territories to prowl and conquer J ( I am among the ones who live to eat :p)

I reach home and I rush to meet Leo (my dog) and I hesitate just a second coz after that he was all over me licking me and jumping on me and there was so much joy on his face. And there I was, stupid enough to doubt a dog’s loyalty… J Concern #1 down the drain J

Concern #2 : I start my car thinking, Can I use the clutch? Will I drive on the wrong i.e the right side (sorry couldn’t help not pointing it out :p)…I put the car in gear and instinct takes over…I am cautious for the first ten minutes entering into intersections and wary of bikes and autos zigzagging.. but as soon as I stop searching for the non existent lanes, the concept of lane driving vanishes and I become a part of the chaos which is Bangalore traffic..

Concern #3: I meet my friends and we finish the regular, U have become pale, U have lost weight formalities J ( forgive my 2 secs of vanity here J) it was weird coz I have not been a part of their lives for nearly two years now but I realize now there is just more to talk and catch up on J and a trip together of some close friends for 3 days is just what the doctor ordered and by the end of it I was up to date (read “Rolling on the floor laughing” J ) on each of the stupidities committed by them.

So I am sitting here at the end of the trip trying to think of some good reasons why I am leaving all this behind and the answer is unfortunately “yes, for the greater good” J.. anyway, my flight’s been announced so I have to go.. but I am thinking of the cliché statement “Home is where the heart lies” !!

Hey wait, little did I know the adventures or mis-adventures I would have on the return journey.. so look for my next blog “CODE RED!!”