From the Room of One' s Own

Here I am in my cabin in Baroda with a PC of my own and connected to the Net. There were times when I used to be on-line from cafe or my home.

The new year has started and this is the season of resolutions. And I have recently acquired a habit of making resolutions. So here it goes:

i) To Exercise more and do a good deal of load shedding. That means to continue my swimming lessons , bicycle more and

ii) To have more sex

iii) To write better poetry

Narendra Modi has returned to power as expected and his opponents, that is the BJP is in trouble. There never was a Congress.

Last year in January I was in Hyderabad watching the New year celebrations.

This year I have just returned from Gondal and fought over the same issue I fought over last January in Kavyotsava in Mumbai: Free Verse and Meters. What bull shit.

Hey I have lectures to deliver and so I have to disappear into the classroom.

Goodbye 2007 We will never meet again!!!!

The Case of a Solitary Cyclist

Yours faithfully gave up his experiments with swimming long time back. Thanks to a series of viral infections and other headaches. I will definitely resume it, once winter recedes. In the mean time, I have brought a bicycle for myself today and I am loving it! Bicyling after decades is fun-The Return of the Repressed Desire to break loose on bicycle is bliss. I hope to do a bit of loadshedding. My Six Pack Abs where each pack is actually a tire of ugly jelly fat should disappear or else I will disappear from this planet sooner. I am trying to come out of my personal Slough of Despond and as per my psychiatrist, I have to incorporate my excerise into my life style if it is to make any difference. I am looking for the excerises I enjoy. Swimming and cycling are cool and also liberating. I am looking forward to winter to go on a backfoot, so that I may jump into the pool of regression once again.