Nikhil

The Lucky Generation             The other day, I was in a family get-together. Lots of cousins, relatives and kinsmen were present. But the two youngest cousins caught my attention in particular. The sis, barely in her teens and just outta 10 th , was on her mobile phone 24×7- texting, calling, chatting, browsing, BBMing and what not. The bro, pursuing graduation, was in a zone of his own, totally oblivious of the external world. He was encapsulated in a world of gizmos, surrounded by a Dell laptop, an Apple i-pod, a Samsung tablet, Sony earphones, a Nokia cell phone, a Seagate hard-drive, a Transcend pen-drive and so on. Mind you, he had come from a different town carrying all this electronic entourage. Watching this took me to my days when I was barely out of school when even a cable TV was not a thing you’ll find in every household. Mind you, this wasn’t decades ago, just a few years ago. I was amazed at this incredible pr...

Life in the Capital (A Puneri perspective) Phew! It had been one hell of a week. After being on the move for two weeks, scurrying across 9 countries & living out of a suitcase, I was back in my dear old Pune on the 5 th of June, 2010.The packing was done. The heart was pumping against my ribs. Innumerable thoughts were racing across the mind. Nervousness and anticipation had flooded me. I was moving to the Capital of India for my first job after post-grad. Never before had I stayed alone and that too so far away from my near and dear ones (A two-year stay in a comfy hostel in Andheri hardly amounts to living alone). To add to the turmoil, it was my first experience of booking a flight online and travelling in it alone. I already had pretty tumultuous nights leading to the day of my departure- Sunday the 13 th June, 2010. In addition, my newly bought huge American Tourister travel bag had broken down after 15 days in Europe and I got it back repaired on Friday night. So, the...