The Namesake

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri -- I happened to pick up this book when I was in Chennai last weekend and finished it yesterday. Quite an interesting book, I should say.

Talk about identity, allegiance, and what the little things mean...they are all a part of this book... well, it isn't a complicated story -- a simple story about a family. However, there are touching moments, moments of realization, moments of fear....everything you'd find in real life.

I really have no idea why I picked that book - when I bought it, I didn't know the story, the outline, that it was made into a movie, that the author also wrote 'Interpreter of Maladies.'

Then And Now!

Have you ever revisited your old emails? old posts? old letters? old diary entries?

Basically, something you had written long so long ago.... At times, I stumble across these.... given the fact, that I save everything (The only time I've deleted all emails from someone is when I'd rather not remember that correspondence... and I do that very rarely) ... this happens almost everytime i search for something or the other...

Today, I stumbled across a couple of emails in Yahoo.... and I am still wondering who I was talking about in those emails....feels kinda funny to read those emails...I dont knw about whom.... but I know this person was really important to me at that time... and all that i use to refer to him in all those emails is 'he'!! Not very helpful...right?

So, that is how life is....life goes on.... people walk in and out...and I sit here wondering who had walked in that long ago...