after a very very long time, i happend to talk to pitts, vani n madhu ...not to forget renewed ties with roy chettan and sanju unc and sudheer garu..
so no prizes for guessing the topic of this post....

thinking of kol, the first things that rush into my mind are the heat, the white dazzling sun , the torrential rains and hailstorms...in that order...
then i think about tat hotel(cant remembr the name or the place), bl 224 and fool's garden... the mausi's shop at koronomoyee market, egg chowmien and slice (ah !), the rum flavoured ice cream....the idli delivery guy and his kids, the bl 224 unc and family....park street, esplanade, mango lassi, countless movies and egg rolls....the metro..and its lambe haath when it finally caught up with us at dum dum !!! the share autos, the wooden buses , the antique trams , boat rides in ganges, the many visits to serene countrysides outside kol and trips to orissa, sikkim, jharkhand....
of course, its in kol, that blu n me realised the importance of having breakfast in life and its effects on decision making skills , sadly the hard way....

wen durga puja was over and rabi kishore left kol, the hustle and bustle of phool bagan(also known as fools garden due to our weird translation) came into our lives...the centrestage was definitely held firmly by poornima di, who used to make sure that we got used to her way of doing things...esp cooking food,....sparking duels in culinary skills with OD....and yes, she brought a radical shift in OD's *sense of dressing* too ...the shrimps she used to get from chingri ghata...hmm.aaha..
occasionally ashok debnath and characters like kingshuk bhattacharya hogged the lime light along with kalu-da ,balu-da n lambu-da..
the next-door neighbour - "bomb shell" mun mun and her hippopotamus dad..tats attributed to his liking for (splashing) water...
many visits to 'grain of salt , 'some place else' , 'malgudi days', college street, oxford, bd100, swabhumi,sanju unc's place, guitar classes...oh i think i ll never forget santa and defnitely not sushmita rani pal(im sure cp would share the same feelings abt sush )......

strangely, i had to put in some effort to recall names of many places and people...strange because i m not sure if i should be happy or sad about it