We pose

Moving around the city, google takes me to new places every time, joggers and Crocs on, I keep my pace with the MO bus here, I look for a company, and end with Uber Moto, he drives me through stretched roads, glitter around, Orstc carrying people from Ireland, the Netherlands for hockey tournaments here, big banners of man in white kurta pyjamas, his father once ruled, now he is the king of Kalinga, Naveen Patnaik, the man who has given a new spirit to Indian hockey. On my Sunday I land up with Ekamra at Deras, walked along the routes of the reservoir, and trek around 4KM, I say, Debasis, who was born in Cuttack, kicked out by the family at a young age, spent his adulting in Gopalpur, a village in Berhampur, a few kilometres from my border sharing home Sompeta. He talks about his life at Ravenshaw, life as a science student and one who didn't like his profession and how after moving around 34 countries he is in love with the capital city of Odisha, Bhubaneswar. He leads the trail, and talks of multiple cuisines of Odisha, damn he speaks a lot, the other shomu in my life, shomu is best anyways. I speak less, come back and go dead on my bed, the other day my professional commitment took me through the Eastern Ghats, NH16, for 2 hours straight, a few kilometres to Chilika, one of the largest Salt Lake, dare you doubt my GK. I ended up meeting children from a school sponsored by government's'. Here they talk in sign language, few couldn't speak, and others couldn't see what I could. Once sponsored by Infosys, Sudha Murty is still on their walls with children, once upon a time it's been now. My children from SC school were beautiful, dressed in their orange uniforms, and all were taught to bow as I enter. NAMASTE saarrrrrr. I would take a roll call, and one would respond as loud as I scream, and one would only, inaudible, I call the name again, name again, and they all would laugh, I find myself here, I write to the school for suggestions, their dream school is smart, are we smart. They all sing, draw, and paint, I sit in my car, and they request a photograph, I get down, and pose, and they all do likewise. After two more hours straight, the cat enters my room and poses the otherwise, my home is far away, texts and WhatsApp, and it's only Ajay in the room, the other day