Yeh hai Mumbai Meri Jaan!

This is like the coolest thing that ever happened to me. I wrote a mail to my friends at rediff radio and they actually responded.

How cool is that!

Hi Sanket,

thanks so much for that email.It was like an affirmation that even though radio is an aural medium it has such an impact on our minds,our lives.Viva la radio:)Pardon my French:0)Thankyou once again for taking those memories 'saat samundar paar' and do keep writing.Feedback and suggestions,two most important things for your 'connection to India' to do well .Oh,almost forgot...we're reading out your mail on the show today.Don't forget to tune in.

happy Listening,
Malishka*



Hi,> >

This is Sanket from Tampa, Florida. Being a mumbai > engineer I have completed my education listening to > radio fm. You would probably have no idea just how big > a role radio played in helping us stay alive while > completing engineering.> > Ever since comming to the US, I have been missing the > radio like razy to the point where I used to get > depressed. Its been such a relief to subscribe to > rediff. Especially since I belive I have already > listened to you in Mumbai, just jaago I believe. Its a > piece of Mumbai in this far off land .. invaluable.> >


So thank you, for being the one constant point in this > changing world, for being there when the going got > tough, for making us smile, for keepingg us company > into the wee hours of the morning, for entertaining, > for giving the radio a new life and for representing > the youth.> >

Thank You for everything,> >

- Sanket K

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Hard Times

Hard Times hit. They are called hard cos they really hit hard. I have to fight. There is hope, there is courage and there is the spirit. This is just a phase, it has to pass.

I am deriving energy from all inspirations possible, friends are very important now. I have to fight, I have to go.

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These Women !

I want to dedicate this blog to some lovely women who seem to have this strange control over me. I am usually fierce about my independence to the point of being paranoid, but these women dont care at all about anything that has to do with the male ego and just override me whenever they want.

First is this girl whom I met in junior college. She was the absolute beauty queen of our campus and for those reasons I always assumed she would never have anything to do with me. As we became friends and I came to know her more I realised how wrong I was in assuming her to be the proud and snobby , typical "look at me" girl. Her mind turned out to be even more beautiful than her looks and her frankness was an endearing joy. Being brought up among guys and a society far more open than us, she was superlative in her understanding of the male mind and had the uncanny habbit of guessing what was on our minds with frightenning accuracy.

Then is this other girl who is the sweetest thing that God ever made for mankind. I met her in junior college and immediately became a fan of her innocence and stupid spectacles. I could never really understand her until after 5 years of our initial meeting when we came close by sheer chance. I could go on talking about her for I admire and respect her so much. The one thing that anyone would notice about her is the utter sweetness of behaviour and thought and well I lack descriptive words here but she is amazing I tell u. Infact I honestly believe that all people who donot know her or havent seen her or havent talked to her even once are pretty miserable and unfortunate for having missed the wonderful experience of knowing her. Its like comming to America and not seeing the Grand Canyon. But I do know her very well so I dont worry about the rest of the world and remain happy with myself.

Then there is my elder sister who also a very very sweet person. The problem though is that many people know this and everyone hogs her time and I dont get any share of it now. I used to ............... earlier but not now :( . But I am still special for her, so that kind of evens things out.

Lastly there is my under graduate crush. Thankfully unlike most crushes that dont work out and then turn out to be no contacts, she still remains a very close friend of mine. Her laughter is unique, like water of spring gushing over pebbles and running hurriedly towards new places. I always always miss our long walks together whenever I think about her. Ya, it does make me sad that it didnt work out btwn us, but well life is not fair anyways.

And so there are these women who posses the elite quality of being able to reverse my intent and get what they want.

The thing is that I am far far away from all of them right now and I miss them terribly now.

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To Rahul, Chinmay, Mithila, Deepti and Avishkar !

Hi,

Recently I had a chat conversation with chinmay which was really fun, if u guyz got my mail u will know what I am talking abut. It reminded me how lucky I am to have five of u as friends when most people are not blessed with even one.

So I say to the five of you what Mark Twain once said of a friend.

"If you guyz are ever in trouble,

And I dont come in time to help you out,

Rest assured,

I am dead. "

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