The Last Fortnight

Its been quiet some time I have been off the Blogosphere. The last 15 days had been hectic and busy. Lot of things happened keeping me busy and not writing here. Olympics was taking lot of time. Vijendra Singh & Sushil Kumar added two more medals to India's tally and for the first time in Olympic History India won more than one medal. We were ranked 50th in the medals tally. Our next door neighbor is Rajeev Godara who has been three times India light heavy weight (81 Kgs) champion in Boxing. He is room partner of Vijendra Singh and also his practise partner. He was home over last weekend and I felt sad to hear from him that he was quitting boxing and was taking a two year classes to become professional coach and migrate to Australia. The reason - because of all the politics in sports bodies he was not allowed to participate in international events and all the hard work he has put over the last 10-15 years is all wasted and he sounded so frustrated. Its so unfortunate. With all sports bodies in India being presided by the politicians, who have never ever played the game - the three medals India won is a great achievement of these gutsy sportsman.

We celebrated the Janmashtami with great pomp on 24th. Minoo decorated the Jhula wonderully and beautifully. Grandmom and Mother made wonderful sweets as prashad. The gulabjamun reminded me of Champu who had gone back to Purulia this year and he used to relish them. We had wonderful Bhajan time in the evening and lot of people sang. It was good to see my dear friend Madhu and his 13 year old son Naman singing so well. We have more than 150 visitors coming to take a darshan of our Laluji - the kid form of Lord Krishna.

26th August we celebrated Sameeps Birthday. Its more or less now a family ritual to cook "Badam ka Halwa" - a delicacy I like so much but now has been asked to keep away from by the doctor. Sameep spent the whole day out celebrating with friends and came late in the evening back home to cut the birthday cake cooked by Minoo. I dont know why but todays teenagers love to be away from home more. I am sure with maturity he will have a different thought.

Professionally at LNM we aquired a forging company which was strategic to our scheme of things.This bought good speed and energy to my own work but unfortunately the deal fell through. I believe God didnt want this to happen. May be Destiny has something better and bigger for me. I had written in one of my earlier blogs also - WHat ever happens , happens for good.

I had visited a specialist this Tuesday for my numbness on my left hand and legs. I went through a Nerve Conduction Study and Needle EMG Examination.The doctor has prescribed some medicines and if good improvement is not seen he will take me through another MRI - this time of my neck.I have to see him again this coming tuesday and I fear I have to go through this MRI. The thought of an MRI makes me nervous and fearful.

Another interesting thing that happened over the last week has been 'Sai Baba's Roti" . My cousins wife Parul gave Minoo half a Roti(bread) to be poured with some tea, sugar and water and kept in a steel box covered with a red cloth. The box was to be opened after a week. Minoo forgot about it and after a day more she opened it today and WoW - there was one and half Roti instead of the one that was locked in there. A great miracle. And there were three women who had already booked there half Roti from the one and half now Minoo had. I tried to google about this and there were so many discussions going on this on the net. A detailed search landed me the reason and information about this. This is also called The Manhurian Mushroom or Kombucha.This is a type of fungi and cure for many diseases. The links are interesting to read and give you an insight to this. Unfortunately how in our country this has been given a religious story and how people are being made a fool.