Living Diagonally In My Parallel World!

AIRTEL मला तुझ्यावर भरोसा नाय  In April I got an SMS from Airtel saying they wanted my conformation to get 10 Gb FREE for 3 months. I accepted their offer. That was a blunder. I still have 9 Gb balance of that 10 Gb's. For the past 2 months I have not recieved any bill from Airtel on my registered email address.When I checked on their website I was shocked to see internet charges of  Rs.23000. Then started the painful process of calling their call center on 121. The call center guys kept on promising that they will resolve this and call me back. So far there have been 4 empty promises and no call backs. This is the treatment they give to a person who has been with Airtel for a very long time. Here is a copy of the mails that I have sent to Airtel. ABSURD BILLING RS.23000 BY AIRTEL - CORPORATE NUMBER - *****99211 From:    Unmesh D Patil To:    appellate.mah@in.airtel.com, ibm@airtel.com Cc:    "Unmesh Patil" <****@yahoo....

I have rediscovered a lost song from Mughal-E-Azam written by Shakil Badayuni and sung by Begum Akhtar. ऐ मोहब्बत तिरे अंजाम पे रोना आया जाने क्यूँ आज तिरे नाम पे रोना आया यूँ तो हर शाम उमीदों में गुज़र जाती है आज कुछ बात है जो शाम पे रोना आया कभी तक़दीर का मातम कभी दुनिया का गिला मंज़िल - ए - इश्क़ में हर गाम पे रोना आया ( गाम = step) मुझ पे ही ख़त्म हुआ सिलसिला - ए - नौहागरी इस क़दर गर्दिश - ए - अय्याम पे रोना आया ( सिलसिला - ए - नौहागरी  = process of lamentation/mourning) क्या हसीं ख्वाब दिखाया मुहब्बत ने हमें खुल गयी आँख तो ताबीर पे रोना आया (ताबीर = interpretation of dreams) जब हुआ ज़िक्र ज़माने में मोहब्बत का ' शकील ' मुझ को अपने दिल - ए - नाकाम पे रोना आया

It is surprising how life plays out. Manasi had been a closed chapter of my life for the past so many years and suddenly we met last week only to part again .... We had met during our Engineering course (in the late 80’s) and took a liking to each other. She was from a very rich, traditional and conservative Gujarati family and me from a typical Maharashtrian family. It was a surprise that we hit off instantly. Our first interaction was in a filmy manner. It was raining heavily that July and I was the only one sitting in class (there was nothing else to do!). When she entered she was all wet and I could not miss the sight. “Hi”, she said, “And don’t watch like that.” I felt so embarrassed that I instantly had the sheepish look of a child caught stealing sweets from the kitchen. She started laughing. She had a throaty kind of laughter. Her smiling face looked as radiant as the rays of sun glistening off dew drops. I mumbled a sorry,  let go of the shame and joi...