The roti

My dear wife broke her collar bone back In India and is partly dependant on me. Actually I am happy that I can take care of her and she also expects me to take care of her. A miracle happened, actually when she said that she is sick of eating rice and wanna have some chapatis. Making chapati is really difficult, starting from kneading dough to make the final product called 'roti', it requires expertise and rich experience.


I was excited to make roti for her. I did almost everything but she also helped me a lot to accomplish the herculian task. Actually it reminded me of my childhood days when my mom or dad used to make a lot of chaptais and parathas for us. I and my younger brother used to eat a lot without much thinking. I am wondering how my mom and dad out of sheer love, took so much pain to provide us every delicious food in this world. I am simply grateful to them.

ROTI is such a trivial little thing, but when you are away from your home, you miss it badly. No shop would be able to provide you the perfect "Maa" and "Babi" ke haath ki roti. No makkhan or butter can match the selfless love of my parents. Thanks Roti for being a connection betwen us. I wish you always remain in this world to tell our tales.

My village is growing leaps and bounds

I belong to a small place called Charoda. It has the proximity to Raipur, capital of state Chhatisgarh, Bhilai (known for Bhilai Steel Plant , one of the leading steel plants in India and also for a large number of students getting selected for premier institute off IITs) . Earlier it was literally a vilage, but in the last 3-4 years it has seen its share of great success in every filed. It has now 4 lanes with traffic signals, which people hardly cares, it has multiplexes where I seat in 2 row during weekends, it has huge shopping malls with leading brands, it has luxury and costly appartments comparable to those in metro cities in Bangalore and Hyderabad, it has leading banks like ICICI and HDFC, it has gr8 colleges with all the state of the art facilities, it has a nice airport which facilitates Air Deccan and Jet Airways.

Every thing looks nice and promising except the people and their mentality. There is a huge confusion in the traffic still, everyone thinks he need to cross the toll booth first, nobody cares about the queue system at any places you name: movie theatre, gas counter, ticket counters in railway station, corruption and black marketing is open in distributing gas cylinders. People have the attitude to mind everybody's affair except his own.

I believe we Indians are growing by leaps and bounds and we can do far better if we just try to be patient and a little courteous. I really wonder why we all are in such a hurry ? Why we don't adopt fair means ? Why we keep mum on being taken for granted for every other things ? Why there is always delay for any simple thing ? Why don't we have respect for time ? Why we wanna always make public places look dirty ? When we will stop throwing garbage inside the trains and buses and streets ?

I don wanna be a software developer any more

Its so boring sitting in front of this box and keep motivating yourself. There are so many sources of distractions while working before computer especially chats, but I would take the blame on my lack of interest to do anything else. If there is no work, its really difficult to kill the time. Thanks to the number of bank and email accounts I have opened, I keep switching between them to see if some dollars have been credited , which rarely happens or debited, always happens. I keep transferring amount between my accounts using paypal, a free service involves some days to reflect in another account. Primarily I use gmail and yahoo and have 3 accounts to check. Here my main job is to delete the useless mails and move the important ones to the designated folders. I cannot stand unread mails while online. Either I have to read it or delete it. If I find some old friends of mine, I would involve in chatting too or else chatting is so boring with unknown guy. I believe chatting is fun for teenagers. I have been in IT industry for past 5 years and now I am feeling the pang of boredome and restlessness. I didn't understand till date why they have to pay us so high to do some damn job.

I always loved to be with people and interacting with the crowd. After I came back from this year of India trip, I am not able to concentrate on work, there is no work in fact. For the first time in life, I am forced to yell " I don wanna be a software developer any more......."