(Oct 30, 8:12pm)

"Once vowed to a relationship, you can never be lonely again... Unbounded love or perhaps some unmerited, unfathomable indifference...

An ornament of faith or may be the pricking feel of deceit...

A mood-enhancing bounty or the never-to-end regret of having chosen less thoughtfully..

Some powerful consciousness absorbs you too wholly and too profoundly to allow space for a vacuum!"

- Anando Bhakto

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(Oct 25, 10:39am)

The Tower Bridge pic is really appreciated.. everybody liked it and raved about it.. on FB.. thanks to Na*a*ia..

One girl said that she's happy to see me putting up more and more weight.. it makes me, she said, all the more handsome..

But Na*a*ia wants me to jog and regularly do some push ups.. she says I must shed the weight immediately.. as that wouldn't any longer make me look 20, as she thinks I currently look..

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Between, when I say the pic was appreciated, don't think I'm being conceited.. I am overtly critical of me too, when my judgement and my impulses find I'm lacking somewhere...

Basically, I'm analytical, and I do not manipulate that to work it to my advantage or disadvantage.. so while you may think I'm at one point either narcissistic or diffident, I'm actually just a bias-free self critic..

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(Oct 19, 9:03am)

Na*a*ia says it is only when I sport a thicker stubble that I look 24... Clean shaven, she's happy to imagine I'm 20, or at the most 22..

Don't tell I'm bragging.. I'm quoting, you see...

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It was her idea that I visited Tower Bridge on my next trip to London two days back.. She asked me to wear the red pull over..

I wore the red coat, though... She even suggested the exact point, from where I could get a captivating full body shot, with the bridge making a perfect and complete background..

The pic actually turned out well... Will make it my DP on Tuesday.. Or, may be Wednesday...

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Oh, yesterday was Kojagori Lakshmi Pooja...

Unlike the rest of north Indians, who celebrate Lakshmi Pooja on Deepawali, we Bengalis do it on Sharad Poornima..

That's the fifth day from Vijaya Dashami..

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(October 14, 8:10am)

N*ta*$a still is reluctant to believe I am more than 20..

"You must have faked the birth certficate in order to qualify as research scholar," she argues..

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Meanwhile, Happy Bijoya Doshomi to all of you...

Burn the Ravana in you! And make merry with friends and family... Good Wishes, always!

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(Oct 11, 5:29am)

High fever.. cold and caugh...eyes burning... and an annoying discomfort in the throat.. it couldn't have got worse at this critical juncture of my paper..

Meanwhile Durga Pooja miles away.... It's Saptami... !!

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(Oct 6, 7:51pm)

I'm looking like a jungle boy... Stubbles have volumed the face from all sides, and the hair disheveled..

The research paper is proving more complex than I imagined... The more I interview, or collect field reports, the more it tends to meander...

Hmm....

Im looking really ugly.... But this has to be like this, till at least three more days into the week.. After which I might be able to take some break..

And shampoo... and shave... and take a bath properly..

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