Pune Revisited ;)

Cold wave in Delhi and no woolens to wear! Oh what a wonderful situation to be in. This was one of the primary reasons for a quick trip to Pune to collect my luggage the long weekend last week. But how can one ever forget the impact of the place that had been my abode for the last 2 wonderful years. Mind here… but heart there for sure.

Must say it felt such a familiar place to be as I landed… known streets, known areas, known people. A relief from the current struggle of the new city called ‘Dilli’ that I have landed up in. The short duration that I spent was a roller coaster with mixed experiences. The primary thing as I reached was to get glimpse of those few chosen people and meet them who mattered a lot, but didn’t know that I didn’t matter to them anymore. Never mind? No ways, I did mind and felt quite sad. The other part was friends who were awaiting me… meeting them was such a comforting experience. Aakriti… aki or dhingra was a constant support juggling between her office and work and spending time with me. It was so much fun to get back to the child within us and make sudden plans to Shirdi… running down crazily on the streets of JM… having a bumpy ride in Volvo… posing innumerable times for that perfect look in the camera… having a midnight bath or spending long hours at night chatting… Yup did miss out on a lot of visits and had to change plans due to shortage of time.

In six months time changes had come… the college atmosphere had changed… R2, the famous ‘bhurji pav’ ki tapri didn’t exist anymore… Level 9 looked different… FC and JM Road became one way…

Don’t know if I’ll ever get an opportunity to come back to the place again but this place would pull me forever. Have seen a lot of places, almost completing the golden quadrangle with Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune and Delhi but Pune is among the best places to be in India.

We would grow… grow in years, in position, in stature, in experience, in life… slowly would come a time when we would adorn those silver grey hairs… but what would remain would be those MEMORIES… I would remember the times I laughed, I loved, I cried, I fought… with those special entities called ‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’…

In the words of Thomas Moore… “Fond memory brings the light of other days around me”