Kedar's Blog

एक NRI.. वर्षानुवर्षं बाहेर राहिलेला. मनाने तरीही भारतातच रमणारा. जगणं कोणाला कुठे आणि कसं नेईल सांगता येतं का? असाच प्रवाहाबरोबर वहात आलेला तो… भारतात मिळणाऱ्या पदार्थांची चव अजून जिभेवर जपून ठेवणारा.. मधून मधून परदेशातल्या भारतीय हॉटेल मध्ये त्याच नावाच्या पदार्थांच्या फसवणुकीवर समाधान मानून घेणारा…   त्याच्या जिभेचे मनसुबे त्याला परत परत भारतात घेऊन येतात. २० वर्षांपूर्वीचं आयुष्य परत एक महिना जगायचं हाच प्रत्येक ट्रिपचा उद्देश.. मग कोपर्यावरचा वडा पाववाला, पुढे गेलं की सामोसा, कुठे पाव भाजी तर कुठे कबाब तर कुठे भेळपुरी.. सर्व सर्व हवं असतं पण सर्व एका वेळी खाता मात्र येत नसतं, कारण हे शरीर आता या सर्वाची सवय घालवून बसलेलं असतं.   पण तरीही तो जातो.. हट्टाने दत्त स्नॅक्सच्या दारांत उभा रहातो.. त्या वासाने इतके दिवस धरून ठेवलेला संयम तुटायला लागतो आणि काहीही विचार नं करता लगेच दोन वडा पावची ऑर्डर जाते. “साहेब यात कांदा घालू का?”, “हे नवीन बघा की try करुन”.. हे काही काही नको असतं. फक्त पूर्वीसारखा गरमागरम कुरकुरीत कंगोरे आलेला झणझणीत वडा, आत एक ओली आणि एक लाल सुकी चटणी आणि तोच...

July 4th 2015, 10pm : I remember my son and I had been watching some fireworks, that some of my neighbors were lighting up in front of their houses. We live in a nicely secluded townhouse section of my community. It was all fun and you could hear fireworks near and far that night. Finally we decided to go up to our 3rd floor bedroom. Next day was Sunday, and my wife and I were planning to watch a movie with a late night cup of coffee, once my Son went to bed. My Son went in his room to get something. He returned with a worried look and said to my wife “Mommy the kid next door is crying outside and his dad is also running out”.. I simply ignored him whereas my wife tried to say something to him to just let it be. After brushing his teeth and lying down in bed, my Son still wasn’t convinced – “but Mommy the kid was crying a lot and there was some light too”. Two minutes later, my Son and my wife said, someone is banging on the main door. I had not even heard it! Irritated, I went down ...

  A few days after we booked our Yellowstone trip, internet bloggers posted videos of Bisons and other animals running away from the park. They were suggesting that this might be due to an impending explosion of the Super-volcano on which the Yellowstone park is sitting on! ( http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/593833-yellowstone-volcano-eruption-in-2014-some-believe-animals-are-fleeing-park-see-it-as-an-alert/ ) I did not reveal this to the family or friends.. But frantically started reading all kinds of articles about the Geography, History, and Science related to this place, and just decided to go.. It’s like you never believe such things will happen to you in real! Two days into the trip, while coming back from Grand Tetons National park, my son and I went inside a gas station store. There on the way to checkout, a fellow customer asked me – in front of my son (!!) – if I had heard that a road in Yellowstone had MELTED that morning and all the roads going north into the park were c...

Did anybody tell you that I am doing a funny speech today? Was it mentioned anywhere that it’s a humorous speech?? [Pause.. look around the room] ‘cuz tell you what.. I got news for you.. THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THIS, OK?? I am going to tell you about my PROBLEM and it.. is.. not.. funny!.. And I will tell you about it, as long as you promise to NOT give me one more solution.. ! Because, THIS [Showing the thinning hair on my head] is my problem!! Yes, my thinning hair, my impending baldness.. whatever you wanna call it.. Now do you REALLY think this is funny?? I betcha some of you still think it is.. I can see some of you smiling.. there! But let me tell you, you are way outta line here! Go ask that person who has to watch this exodus of youth every day, ask that person who is in the shower every day begging to his falling hair not to leave him, ask that person who has lost all his interest in his pictures simply because all he sees there are his bald spots, ask that person who ca...

 Hello everyone! Well I just recently had my annual review. And as usual, I came out with the same feeling as always.. Dissatisfaction! But can you blame me? Tell me one thing, is there anyone here who thinks that he deserves less than what he is already getting? Is there anyone who says, oh, I am a pretty useless fellow, so I don’t really deserve this increment or bonus or whatever it is.. Does it ever happen? No, everyone in fact, feels like Life has not been fair to them.. My dear (friends), is Life fair to You?… Don’t even think about it, the answer to this question, is almost without exception, a big NO! A secondary corollary to this is – “Life is fair, but to someone OTHER than me..”! And the irony of this is, Each one of us thinks this way! 🙂 Well, we are all human beings.. and we like to complain.. That’s understandable, nothing wrong with that! It’s in our genes.. Even my Son started saying “This is unfair”, since the age of 3..!! Daddy, it’s not fair that I don’t get a t...