9 months ago...The day it all began...

Inbox(1) showed my Gmail Inbox...I absent-mindedly clicked it...AC invites you to join it's rolls from 27th November 2009, read the mail. A few phone calls and I left for the college. I then realised that I had misplaced my original Offer Letter and my mind raced towards the possibile ramifications that this could have. Nevertheless with "I-will-find-my-way-out-of-this-as-well" attitude I reached college and as it had always been,I negotiated my way out of this situation as well.

I was walking with Chandresh and Aparna on my out of the college and I blurted out that may be we will get Bangalore or Chennai as our centre as I had a strong feeling of that happening. As soon as my words reached their ears, voices of protest filled the air. I caught my mind contemplating on whether I should have told that or not.But I dismissed this as an unnecessary exercise by my mind.

What flustered me and somehow disappointed me was the strength of feelings which everyone around me had mustered at the thought of leaving Mumbai. I, on the other hand, never thought that emotionally. Indifference was surely a way of life. People raved about mumbai, swore on its culture, claimed that how difficult it would become to live wihtout things that made mumbai 'MUMBAI' . For me this was simply an opportunity, to start writing on the slate all over again, to start a journey leaving behind all the luggage from the previous one. However my admiration for Mumbai was never any less than their Nostalgia.

A few days later...CST Station...Destination: Bengaluru
The train took off...and so did our lives in a direction which was yet to be unravelled and comprehended...

But we have come a long way since then. And everyone has managed to make something out of these 9 months. The people around me have surprised me quite a lot. Their various interpretations and implementation of this period has been an intriguing affair.
It is these 9 months and the experiences so far that have prompted me to start a blog...which is named aptly as The Bengaluru Diaries...