One Year Ago

It's been just over a year now that i returned back to "Aaamchi Pune" from Detroit in the US of A. Can't believe that a whole year has gone by. Since returning, i've been busy with something or the other - family n' friends, job interviews, job, engagements n' marriages, job, good food, playing sports, watching sports, job, movies n' television, tekdi ... the list goes on. The job has been the focus of my life since i returned, not that i am complaining. The work culture is relaxed (coffee breaks n' table-tennis), work is very interesting and the compensation is good enuf.

If i compare the above list to my life in Detroit, the only things i can recall are winter n' snow, job, winter n' snow, movies n' television, winter n' snow ... that's it. After a year of the above, one begins to notice the drudgery of everyday life & u long for the good old "grad student" days where u had a bunch of pals to hang around with after the day's work was done. In a nutshell, social life was zilch, nada, ... and frankly, the whole thing sucked ... some american dream (not that i planned to stay there forever). This and the fact that numerous MNC's in my domain of interest had setup shop in Pune was the reasons i decided to leg it.

In retrospect, I can honestly say that returning back was one the best decisions i have ever made. And I heartily agree with Kishorilal (Amrish Puri) in the movie Pardes when he says "Yeh mera India, I love my India !"

Come to think of it, I should have started this blog while i was in the US ... better late than never :)