Invasion of the bongs...

GRRRRRRRRRRR! Off with the Bengalis is my refrain. They are so irritating! Deepavali weekend I went trekking in Uttarakhand. Climbed up to Chandrashila. The view was awesome - and it was mostly in my imagination thanks to the mist that played spoilsport.



But back to the Bongs. My friend and I hit Chopta to find that all the tourists there are Bongs. The family next door in the dhaba were Bongs. It was so bad that the dhaba guys kept calling my friend dada though he does not look remotely dada-ish. And the Bong family next door would keep talking. So we were subjected to intermittent chatter in osh kosh bigosh. Terrible. I have discovered an Universal Truth - life is so full of Bengalis. My office is overrun by them, I live in an area a stone's throw from the Bong heartland in Delhi and everytime I leave the city on a holiday I bump into more of them.

Ah well at least it was a lovely (though killer on the legs) climb. And an even better journey back. To be continued...

My 007 mission...

Right. I've been getting comments on my disappearance from the world of the Internet. Actually it was only one enquiry but lets not be pedantic. I've been MIA because of this secret mission entrusted to me. Or rather prosaically, since my computer crashed - the techie guy says mother board needs to be replaced. And for various reasons this is not such a clever idea and therefore I need to get a new laptop. In the meantime I've been stuck with a dinosaur of a laptop courtesy my office that informed (or not so informed) sources tell me once belonged to our late founder. So I should behave with respect to the laptop; it having felt the touch of his fingers.

That's beside the point. The dinosaur doesn't like too many tabs opened on ze internet so I've been parsimonious with the windows. And the last week I was in the jungles of Madhya Pradesh (literally), having gone to Kanha National Park. I was chasing forest guards there. Tramping around in the forests. And oh yes, I saw a Panthera tigris. Tiger for the zoologically challenged. See me facebook for pictures.



So that be the 7 O'clock news.

That's all folks.

p.s. I have no theory on why I have escaped the attentions of the Beret but now that I have my Kanha story to do, things are already changing on that front.