Dussera was fun only in school days. loads of food. the works. once i even got driven by my neighbour's mum with the other kids to see ram leela. nowadays i spend dussera working overtime.

so geeks and i were discussing hobbies. he is into philately. when i was a kid, philately was like the most intellectual hobby to pursue. so once we had this relative coming from phoren and he brought us one or two stamps from there. i obiviously got pretty excited and declared loudly that i was going to take up stamp collecting seriously. that day marked the beginning and the end of my new hobby. coz we had no more relatives coming from abroad. and by the time my cousins went abroad the age of email had started. so no more stamps.

went to cover this durga pooja. all that i could smell was mustard oil and more mustard oil.
all those weird sounding dishes, begon bhaja, payosh...