We went to Kyra on 3 December. Over there we could have our dinner and listen to music. Itwas a rock and the band INDUS CREED was playing that night concert. I liked it a lot. My family friends had come. I talked with them. We played some hand games, drank coco-cola. We got to eat gobi manchurian, potatoes and many more things. My friend's father's cousin was the lead singer. After the show was over my family friend's father introduced us to him. Then we got his autograph. Here is a picture of the concert. He is the second person from the left. his name is Uday Benegal. I will soon scann and display his auotograph on screen.
I wrote this in May 2026 and then left it sitting in my drafts for six weeks. Partly because it feels more personal than what I usually put online. Partly because writing honestly about uncertainty is uncomfortable when most of us are busy performing certainty. And partly because I wasn’t entirely sure I believed all of it yet. I’m still not sure. But perhaps that’s the point. So, here goes. ----- May 2026 Two years ago, I moved back to India. I hadn't planned on it. In fact, if you'd told me in 2020, when I packed my bags and left Bangalore for France, that I'd be back in four years, I'd have laughed it off as a failure of imagination. The plan had always been to stay abroad and build a career in Europe. The universe, well, had other plans. Four years abroad had been, by most measures, a good run. Two years in France at Sciences Po, a well-paid summer internship in Paris, the youngest funded researcher on a research project between Princeton, Columbi...
ok, the return of indus creed blogged by the return of the mairpady blogger! im glad u did it sanjith - we need many more.
ReplyDeleteI agree with aunty that u must blog MORE often. Please dont disappoint us lil mairpady. And yes, we had a good time that day didnt we?
ReplyDeleteGood to see you blogging again, Little Mairpady.. Look forward to seeing Uday Benegal's autograph on your blog.
ReplyDeletelittle Mairpady, Little Mairpady, Little Mairpady.... You are back & with an amazing review of Indus Creed. Please will you introduce me to Uday Benegal?
ReplyDeleteThank You....
6 days left & I am counting....