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Few days before lockdown, I was having a strong intuition that this lockdown will not hold good to a few days, but  might extend to months, of a long stay at home, and the idea of being confined to a small compound in Hyderabad with soaring temperatures as the days progressed was not going well.  So I decided to drive down to my farm, It was a long journey of 1000+Kms from Hyderabad to Wayanad with my family and Dogs and with a list of instructions to travel from parents. One of the instructions were not to eat your meal from any of the restaurants, so we had to make arrangements of food not only for us but for our three pets traveling with us. What an experience it was, I was so used to these long drives, stopping every now and then, experiencing local flavor at a new restaurant on the way, but sitting under the tree to have our meals and walking the pets on the highway, couldn’t have even thought about it at a normal time. Tired after the long travel, I woke up to ...

One of those days when I was not really busy at work, just sitting in the office, going through my phone and laptop, reading one or the other article and browsing through all my accounts of social media. Sanju called me from the other end of the bay and asked me to come for a cup of coffee, I don’t know what happened to me, I told him, “ I am busy, you go ahead”, I was surprised by myself, why did I have to make an excuse, I was not busy, I could have been for a cup of coffee. This caught me thinking, why is that I had to do? Is it that I was more keen on knowing what is happening in another corner of the world, rather than spending some time with my good friend? I immediately got up my seat and walked down to the cafeteria, where three of my other colleagues were also having their coffee… I took my cup of coffee and stood next to them, they all looked at me and smiled and their eyes went back to the mobile, all of us were having our chai together but other than an occas...

What an innings it was! He was speaking to his friend on his retirement day, His friends in the Bank had organized a farewell for Sudheer after a long 35 years of service in the bank. He held different positions in the bank and also traveled extensively throughout the country either for some work or positing. He continued… Coming from a small town of Andhra, studying in a government school, struggling to get admission into engineering, despite getting a good rank in the entrance, doing odd jobs before landing on this job. Oh! I remember those days in our childhood when we had no electricity in our house, studying with my sister under the lamp, dad working as a teacher in the government-school had a modest salary wherein it was difficult to meet ends. Today both my sons have studied in the US and have got a job there and most likely not to return and I stay in one of the metropolitan cities, it has been quite a journey… Happy and Satisfied… One of his colleagu...