Again a Long long time I know!
Need to become more organized in life.

Well I saw Rang De Basanti the day it was released. It was a good movie. The acting was good, the story was good, the songs were good, the presentation was good, so on and so forth.

The best thing though was that, this movie introduced me to Ram Prasad Bismil and his poetry. He was an Indian Freedom Fighter and the leader who planned the Kakori Rail Dacoity episode. His peotry is also a lamp lighted at the altar of the Motherland.

The picture on this blog is his poem "Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna".

Reading it was so wonderful. It rekindled in me the love for Urdu Poetry, sher / shayar, etc. I also finally completed my "Yadon bhi Aisi" by putting it into hindi fonts.

On the personal front, well, now I am working in St. Louis, MO.
Colleagues are ok, having some fun. And, Anil Yalamanchili is also here. Now, he and me share an apartment again. (Anil and me were room mates back in 1999 in Virginia when we were working at American Red Cross. That was where Teki and Karthi were also our room mates and that is where I initially met Anil Bagade.)

New Year was at San Diego, Sankranti was at Connecticut, Christmas (don't remember).

Well, Finally went into partnership with The Raya Brothers in Dallas. One good thing done in life.

Went to the casino's here around 4 times in the last 1 week. Lost big. :)

Lekin, as they say,

muddaii lakh buraa chaahe to kya hota hai,
vahi hota hai jo manzoor-e-khuda hota hai!!

muddaii = Anyone in general, a person.

Otherwise life is pretty routine. Nothing much going on.