Tears in Hell.

It rained yesterday,
It rained after long…
The heat of passion is still burning,
The soul is still singing the song.

It is raining today,
It is raining for long…
Tears blend with the whiskey,
Life is selling for a song.

It will rain tomorrow,
Though, not for long…
Before tears put out the fire
And whiskey kills the song!

What a TRIP !!!

Summer is unbearable! The tremendous heat along with a very very high degree of humidity is simply unbearable. And summer in Calcutta is exactly that. After suffering for two whole month i finally take a mountain retreat to the northern tip of Bengal and Sikkim. It is supposed to be summer there as well. yeah! that's right... that's if you call 9 degrees hot!

I went to Ghoom, a small town near Darjeeling which might be small but is about a 1200 feet above darjeeling and houses a fantastic resort called the Sterling Resorts! The view from that place and the temperature is simply aweinspiring! Stayed there for a couple of days and proceeded to Sikkim. This state had no railroads to preserve the mountains and the trek is out of this world. When we(yeah there were 4 of us) reached Tashiding in the Yangtey Valley very close to Pelling and Gyalsing(also called Gezing), we were as close as we can get to heaven. The resort on the top a mountain called the Tashigang resort took our breath away. Situated bang on top the mountain, it is at a height of 6000 odd feet and gives a 360 degree view of the most beautiful range in the world--The Himalayas! Snow peaked mountains in the horizon so close that you feel you can bite the tip off and surrounded by clouds and mild sun rays confused us to believe it was winter time. But it is indeed summer and the Gods graced us with a view that was drop-dead gorgeous on the day we were about to leave which is only available on summer time. Check out the mountain..do you know what it is?

It's the beauty queen of all the ice-capped ranges around the world. Mount Kanjhendzonga! No wonder it is considered Goddess Kanjhendzonga in multiple religions around here!


There are certain things that i would love to mention as well apart from the mountains and the beauty surrounding it. It is about the temperature there. It is quite nippy even in the wildest days of summer and someone like me hailing from the coastline would definitely freeze to death if not for the Stunningly Hot girls of the mountains. Karseong,Darjeeling,Ghoom are definitely worth visiting if not for anything else but for the amazingly beautiful girls around(provided you have no reservations against orientals, like me!).

On a more serious note, the trip has been the by far the best i have been to, for a long time and getting back to the city and it's still unbearable heat is quite maddening and my longing for the mountains is actually giving me ideas of applying for transfer to darjeeling. ha ha ha! took loads of pictures there and am quite willing to share it with everyone!


The trip Photographs are slowly being uploaded on Flickr..keep checkin the link below to get updated pictures every time!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balanuj/

Happiness is a state of mind!!

I guess this has been the longest hiatus till date but there has been so much going in my life that despite the irresistible itch in my hands to blog, i had to be content with only the thoughts of it. ya! i kinda had my hands full till now.

I guess the big news is that i graduated :) Finally i am a master at something( now! now! i have a degree certificate to prove it :D). I left Hyderabad and have come back to my hometown Calcutta and life has not been the same since. i seriously miss people( read friends) in my life. With all my buddies scattered all around the globe i am stuck to the usual eating-drinking-sleeping-orkutting monotonous routine. Though i am savouring evey moment of this new found freedom from the clutches of education, which had me captivated for 17 long years, i would rather spend this time catching up on old friends than gossiping about future possiblities with parents and visiting worthless and countless relatives! ya my cousin brother had a son..again.. i never knew he was married in the first place. i mean how frustrating can this get? all those buggers i love to spend to time with are either busy being corporateer in some far off land or have simply gone back to spend " quality" time, like me, in their respecive natives. Can't get any worse than that ..right? Uh huh!! wrong guess..i recently got dumped! now comeon am i that bad??? dunno why life is being really kind to me. If this is a test i must admit i was never very good at taking notes!

But i am not being entirely honest here. I have a job offer and i am waiting for the joining date to come which should be within a month and i am pretty excited about it! my life is not completely devoid of fun you see. now that i am single, but not really ready to mingle, i can atleast start eyeing the cheese..if you know what i mean hehehe. not that the city has great offerings but i am not exactly gregory peck you know-i'll manage..thank you very much :)

I have almost lost a friend and the feeling sucks. we all knew this chap was a knucklehead from the very beginning but when he turned vindictive and harmful that is when i have kinda called it quits. but the feeling still sucks..may be if he proves his undying and unadulterated love and friendship(what melodrama!) to us in the future we might allow him to join the bandwagon but since he is borderline retarded and has this uncanny knack of smashing all expectations with hieghts of foolishness, i seriously doubt if we would come back to old terms again. Therefore "An intelligent enemy is better than a foolish friend" i guess :(

so even if the moral of this story is 'let bygones be bygones' , i donot have the slighest idea of what to expect next!

Happy New Year People :D

do you know what the phrase "google me" means? it means look me up in google.
try using the keywords" Balanuj Mitra" or you can directly click on this link to visit the results page and save "loads" of time :)

Obscure

Have you ever slept on the green grass and stared absent mindedly into the big bright blue sky? Have you seen those white cotton clouds playing around with each other? They form shapes that defy geometry but are so life like. They make you smile, they make you sad- simultaneously.

Have you ever slept on the brown banks of a murky but pleasantly flowing river and stared into the ripples formed by a distant fish-boat or an untimely tide? Have you heard the sound of a large group of fish virulently hitting the water surface with its tail and trying to form a chorus? Their actions seem imbecile but are so life like . They make you smile,albeit for a moment, they make you sad-immediately.

Specific incidents remind you of your happy past- a happy memory. Solitude serenades you with the melancholy of life. Tears adhere to rules of gravity, invariably and you grow up. I grow up every day. Most simple facets of life gives me an insight that helps me understand those incongruous feelings which titillate my sub-conscious.

Have you ever had a similar feeling my friend?

ABSTRACT

I wake up to an irritating religious scream of some old moulvi to find out its one o clock in the afternoon. I call for a few of my friends but none respond when I realize all of them have left for college and am the only one left in the house. Felt very lazy about going to college because that is seriously a waste of time. So I get myself freshened up and head towards the kitchen to see if I can manage something to hog. I find aloo parathas very generously awaiting my hungry soul and I oblige them, I am a good Samaritan after all.

Big time jobless so switch on the computer and thought about orkutting for a while but alas! Net connection is down. So far so good.
I switch on the tv and look for some good movies. While surfing, a couple of the Hindi movie channels draw my attention and I intently wait for a good movie to show up. I find some old moronic intellectually challenging karishma and anil kapoor movie coming up so I surf further till I land up in HBO and Star Movies. Worthless movies. Some thoroughly gross ghost movies coming up and some Chinese bullcrap too. So I surf further when I see the logo of touchstone pictures in Zee Studios. Interested I keep looking and there it is. A perfect movie for my mood. I find runaway bride starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts (I know I do not need to mention that) and I am so happy. Though I have seen the movie for like a thousand times but the love for it is still there. I don’t know, I just simply love those mushy romantic comedies which I know is quite improbable if not impossible in today’s world but who does not like candy floss?

But luck had other ideas I guess! Fifteen minutes into the movie the screen goes blue…cable’s out!! No net, no cable..what am I supposed to do? So I head for college. I know some of you are breathing a sigh of relief that it took me nothing more than a faulty net and tv connection to get me to college..but think again my friend. I am going to the common room to play table tennis. Enjoy!!

Reflections - Durga Puja

Today is the official beginning of the festivities. let me take this opportunity to wish everytone viewing this post a very happy Durga Puja. May the goddess shower you with blessings this fall.

My plans of going home got cancelled due to some unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances. the pressure to perform has never been more intense and i cant say that am not liking the challenge. but at the same time it's kiling me from inside that i cannot visit my folks this time round...again...back to back years! Oh Kolkata- tilottama...excrutiating i tell you but i guess the show has to go on.
whats really bugging me is that my friends, namely Govind,Aakarsh and Sanjay had to cancel their trip as i let them down.The look in their eyes says it all.i know they are not blaming me and they understand but the frustratuion is clearly evident. Well i have failed my friends again. i have,for the first time in my life put my career in front of every sentiment that maters to me and the feeling cuts like a knife! oh how they wnated to see the cultural capital of India, the city of joy with me in tow but i ruined all the plans. i really wish that i can take all of them with me in december-january when the weather is too good to explore all the exploits of Bong heritage and culture! i hope they tag along.

putting up a few pictures of the festive season. i hope you all like it.

A Pandal

Maa Durga(Mother Goddess) inside a Pandal

Dhaki- the traditional drummer. An intergral part of the ambience.