The Blog Award

If you are wondering what this award is about, be assured, it is not a Booker or a Pulitzer to sweep me off my feet. It is an award given by bloggers to fellow bloggers who they feel are worthy of it. It’s been four years of blogging and this recognition, though late, has come nevertheless. Here I go with my award acceptance write-up, as demanded by the rule of this game. Let this be my post-award interview!

Seven Random Facts about You:
I’m talkative, much opposed to the first impression that people make about me. I seldom get tired talking and suddenly I can be deeply meditative. I have remained silent for 10 days without much ado.

For all my jingoism and patriotism, I’ve spent only 6-7 years in India, the rest having been spent in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. I’m very much a dharti ka lal and would like to be here for the rest of my life.

People generally perceive me to be calm. But I’ve the worst temper you can think of. I can mouth the most acerbic expletives and things fly across like saucers when I get angry.

My collection of music varies from a K.L.Saigal recording from Devdas (1935) to A.R.Rehman’s songs from Rockstar (2011). There are few things more endearing than good music and good movies.

I want to be in Calcutta at some point of time in my life. I fell in love with the city during my college days in an overdose of Tagore and Sarat Chandra. Things are not the same now, yet I want to be there.

I would like to settle down in Chennai or Delhi – two cities I have loathed and loved for various reasons. Yet, there is something about these diametrically opposite cities that I love.

I’ve always been a story-teller. I was so fond of stories that I used to record them in my voice as a child and play them to see how good I’m at telling them. I dream of winning some big award like the Booker or National Award some day.

My Favourite Song: Plenty of them. But I can never get enough of M.S.Subbulakshmi and Lata Mangeshkar, who I believe are the most gifted singers of the last century. Then I love Rafi, Kishore and in today’s times, A.R.Rehman and Shreya Ghoshal.

My Favourite Dessert. I love Jalebis, Ras Malai, Kaju sweets, Rava Laddu and many more.

What pisses me off: My own anger.The fact that I lost my temper when it could have been controlled increases it further. I also hate to see the inheritance of loss among my own generation. We are like those fools who set off in search of wealth elsewehre, not knowing that they are sitting on a heap of treasure

Biggest Fear: No specific thing. It comes and dissolves away on an everyday basis.

Best Feature: I can laugh at myself. I'm not a joker but won't mind being one for the ones close to me.

Everyday Attitude: Man proposes, God disposes. A miracle might just be round the corner. Live life as it comes.

What is perfection? That stupid idea where you screw-up your happiness in doing the impossible and that of those who help you in doing it

Guilty pleasure. I spend a lot on books and movies. I don’t know how many of them I read again and again but I simply love to see them arranged on my self.

Give the Award to 15 bloggers
15 is a huge number for a person who does not read much of other blogs. But here’s from where I regularly do!

As I muse: I got this award from Vinitha. She has been there almost since the beginning of my blogging journey with me. Some of her works really amaze and I feel that little more dedication and eye for detail will take her far. A person of few words, she compensates for it with her written words.

In search of: We studied together for two years and we share many common goals. We built umpteen dreams of doing this, doing that and writing a book together. Her writings are sure to leave a smile on your face as you finish them. I know we will realize them step by step.

The Ganga Mail: I first read Biswanath Ghosh in The New Sunday Express. I soon became a fan of his columns. They were like a refreshing filter coffee on a Sunday morning. I still follow his writings on his blogs.

Edhey Thumbi Haadavenu: He has his way of bringing up serials of two amazing characters in his blogs week after week. They remind you of some sitcom you would have followed on DD in the glorious days before the Saas Bahu serials attacked us.

Calcutta Chromosome. Perhaps it was the name that led me to it. But I found some interesting and refreshing pieces on topics I loved from cinema to books and f course my beloved Calcutta.

Till I get my Booker, Pulitzer, Filmfare or National Award, this one should do!