Kolkata

though i have stayed in cal for over five years when i was a kid, the city looked very different this time from the memories i had. may be becoz all my memories were from an age when i was 2 ft tall....eveything looks huge then. now everything seemed to be smaller than what i remembered...my house, my school, my friend's place.....and even the streets.

the weather is still humid though, and the traffic still as bad (yes, despite the flyovers).must say i was a bit disappointed to see my house in garia hat......it looked like an abandoned place....not taken care of, and very depressing initially. apart from the shop outside the gate, nothing else has changed in and around that building....literally nothing. hmmmm, its not easy going back to a place which brings back waves of memories....some good, some not so good.

my school was another disappointment (no i thoroughly enjoyed my nostalgic trip, but there were moments which made me sad....i cudn't understand how i was feeling). school looked very small too....and dilapidated. my first reaction was "is there where i studied?"the salt lake house was a saviour.....just the same as i remembered it, and newly painted (though no one stayed there). sat for a while at the place where mum used to wait for us when we came back from school, where we got a photo clicked with papa....and where i smoked my first cigarette!well.....mission accomplished....all said and done, i was initially thinking that i will not come back to the city again...not becoz i dnt want to, but becoz my work is done....and there is nothing left here

but as soon as we started on our way back and i closed my eyes, i had a strange feeling......i will come back to kolkata...soon