City has started to unlock itself from pandemic. After months of being indoors, I too decided to break free and go for a long drive. It was a clear sky Sunday noon. Wearing home made mask, I drove past eastern express highway while light FM music played in the car. I headed towards Powai. Near IIT gate, while waiting at signal, I saw the bus AC125 passing by. It was the same bus and same stop from where I use to commute years ago when I stayed in Powai. It recalled some fond memories. In one incident, I had witnessed remarkable farewell of a bus conductor on his last day at work. It pulled me deep into flashback and recalled my commute routine of those days. With it I remembered a girl who also commuted regularly in this bus. It is still fresh in my memory when I first saw her. It was an usual busy Monday morning, I was waiting at this stop. Getting a seat in the bus would have been ideal for me to relax and calm myself. The bus had arrived on time and I boarded. It was getting crowd
A Russian Girl and an Indian Boy Met in US semi-fictitious story of their tender vividness Part 1 I was getting ready in the morning for the training workshop, which was in its second week. Starting today, participants would change as next module was starting now on. It was mostly mid aged salespeople who attended the training last week. I was expecting them to be replaced with relatively young faces due to very nature of training, which was getting hands-on from today. Igor continued the workshop this week but his other Russian friends had left. He occupied same seat as he did throughout the training so far; and so did rest of the continuing participants including me. It was about 9 AM when a tall, young, well-groomed up girl occupied the corner seat in first row next to Igor. I noticed her and so would have others as she was little late in arriving. I was hoping that she would look around and make eye contact with us to get an idea of participants - but actually she d