Edit! Edit!: My employers just called to confirm my contract details and said they were ok with me joining from 3rd September (I had told them I was available asap). So I do get to go home!!! After more than a year, so I am really looking forward to it. Shall sign my contract tomorrow and hopefully will be in Delhi by the weekend. Inshallah!
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Ya Allah.....homesickness is going to be the death of me. In Nadeem Aslam’s wonderful Maps for Lost Lovers the immigrants rename the British city they live in Dasht-e-Tanhaii. The desert of loneliness. I could relate.
Last week I even happily went and saw Chak De! India. I liked it, messaging my parents to take my sister to watch it because she is the SRK fan and would no doubt enjoy it more than I did. (I am an Aamir loyalist. Have been since age five.)
It’s been a good Independence Day personally. Lots of loose threads and outstanding matters tied up. And I received undeniable proof of the fact that the only thing you need to get a job is another job. Still I kind of wish I could go home for a bit... don’t know when that will be.
Also before I end this song (one of my all time favourites) by the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has been playing on a never ending loop lately. Enjoy.
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Maharashtra 
UttaranchalYa Allah.....homesickness is going to be the death of me. In Nadeem Aslam’s wonderful Maps for Lost Lovers the immigrants rename the British city they live in Dasht-e-Tanhaii. The desert of loneliness. I could relate.
Last week I even happily went and saw Chak De! India. I liked it, messaging my parents to take my sister to watch it because she is the SRK fan and would no doubt enjoy it more than I did. (I am an Aamir loyalist. Have been since age five.)
It’s been a good Independence Day personally. Lots of loose threads and outstanding matters tied up. And I received undeniable proof of the fact that the only thing you need to get a job is another job. Still I kind of wish I could go home for a bit... don’t know when that will be.
Also before I end this song (one of my all time favourites) by the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has been playing on a never ending loop lately. Enjoy.
Congratulations! I'm so happy for you that you got a job and also get to travel.
ReplyDeleteI love that song as well - one of my favourite non-Qawwalis from Nusrat.
By the way, have you read the poem Dasht-e-Tanhaii. Again, one of my favourites. One of the most beautiful love poems I've ever read.
Dasht-e-tanhaii mein ai jaan-e-jahan larza hai
Teri awaaz ke saaye
Tere honthon ke saraab
Congrats for the job! Is it with the Turkish Embassy?
ReplyDeletecongratulations!
ReplyDeleteps. typo on 'nusrat'.
job? in delhi? hmph. I am still searching (although the great, the big, the TCS has offered me, and a million others, a cosy software job. zzzz...)
ReplyDeleteTrip was wonderfulness. shall mail you details :)
And welcome to delhi (after a long long time)
aha1 so we get to meet and eat at Andhra bhavan??
ReplyDeletecall me!
T_M: Thank you…the job is a relief more than anything else. And I hadn’t read the poem…its lovely!
ReplyDeleteAlok: ;-p. No it is not with the Turkish embassy. That would be a perfect job fit but no? Hehehe.
TR: Thanks. Typo corrected :)
Miss**: glad to hear the trip went well!! Yes, do mail me the details. Also, will you be in Delhi? We should try and meet up.
Chandni: Yes!! :D Will drop you a line when I reach.
*Ahem*. I live in Delhi.
ReplyDeleteHomesickness perhaps,but how about once you're back, will the travel bug's bite continue to itch?
ReplyDeleteCongrads!
ReplyDeleteAnd you get to go home!
This calls for a double whoop, I say!
Aishwarya, but you are running away when I am visiting!
ReplyDeleteOh, and double whoop for szerelem
Renovatio: I wish I could have travelled a bit but too many constraints. Might roam around a bit in Delhi itself.
ReplyDeletePunkster: Thank You!
Anonymouse: Yes, Aishwarya has very nicely disappeared while we are here!
And thank you :)
You are blogrolled! Leave a nasty one if you hate the idea.
ReplyDeleteWell harrumph. If certain people would tell me in advance that they were coming to my city!
ReplyDeletewhere is ze?
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