Raghu

Some day when I am dreaming, deep in love and not a lot to do, that day I will remember the few below things that I am slowly losing touch with. Writing : Yes, I used to love writing letters with my own hands rather than typing them. I had a liking for ink pens and just writing with that pen made me feel good. Apart from letters I used to indulge with the little bit poet in me and flirt a little (with words). It is used to be fun; right now I only send email and blog at times. In the current times I am only remembered by email address, may be in days to come, people will think that Raghu’s mails in Calibri font with text size 11 used to be so much fun. For me, when I can see some one’s hand writing on the envelope and remember them, then read the letter and recollect the memories, is such a good feel. Yes, the good old snail mail methods and yes that might categorize me as a person from Stone Age but there is still some romance left in it for me. Need to get back to this habit. Ga...

I never thought a simple Backpack can become a talking point for me. Recently I have been hearing a lot of comments about me still using a backpack. Though I never respond back with any comments, I just laugh it away but in the recent past taking a lot of heat. Basically it does serve me in lot of ways, right from carrying Tiffin box, snack box, head phones, ear phones, i-pod, license, money, books and many more things that are not worth a mention. I tried answering the question as to why I still use it, below is what I found: 1. May be… I am over compensating for all the days that I did not go to college with a back pack. 2. May be… It’s the revenge of the sling bag that I stopped using as it was not so convenient for me. 3. May be… It is people’s way to complain that I am not carrying enough snack and Tiffin for all of them. 4. May be… It is the cry of the laptop that I deny to carry. 5. May be… Carrying it around still makes me feel like an unruly college going youth in comp...

Today morning I was taking a walk around the house, while brushing teeth and overheard my immediate neighbors talking about teenagers. Their conversation was going in Telugu and one of them happened to say “eee kalam pillalu bothigaa chaduvu sandhya lekunnda pothunnnaru andi”, the very mention of these words made me smile as I also got to hear these lines a lot from my parents. Few seconds later I enter the scene and I with my frothy white mouth with the tooth brush still inside, bend my head forward, try giving them a smile and move out from that place. Now what is there in the line that made me smile is, the way I see the very lines at two different stages of my life. Even before I tell you the difference in my view point “ Then & Now ” I will try to get you a brief understanding of those lines in English. Basically what they are trying to convey here is teenagers these days are having no proper sense of education and time. The two words here “ Chaduvu ” & “ Sandhya ”, the fi...

Last Sunday with not a lot to do, I was checking few of my old collections and found a letter, yes the below one. I have read it 3-4 times on the day when it was given to me and later, may be after 2 years or so again I read it (accidentally when I was searching for my certificates) and again last Sunday after more than 4 years. Now at the 3 junctures where I have read the letter I had a wide variety of feelings. The First Time: I was handed this letter along with some instructions (instructions were not to share it with any one) which I followed word to word without any second thought. After all these years now I feel, I did the wrong thing, may be. As per a old Telugu film song “Adavari maatalaku ardhaley veruley, Auvunu antey kadaniley, kadu antey auvunaniley” which means when a woman says “Yes” it means “No” and when she says “No” it means “Yes”. Now whatever were her intensions then or now, I will go ahead and share it over here. Happiness ; yes, this is what I felt for the fi...

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