I entered the shop and all of a sudden was addressed by another shopper ‘Namaste’. It was an old occidental man in Black Jeans and orange T-shirt, folding his hands in Indian way.
हजारों ख्वाहिशें ऐसी कि हर ख्वाहिश पे दम निकले (thousands of breath-taking wishes are there) and this was certainly the one which could have taken the breath away – literally – that of playing with an
The week had been hectic with so many slogging hours and skipping lunches and dinners. The ups and downs on personal front made it all the tougher. All the body wanted was sleep and rest and food.
Today I tried to find another avenue for Hindi books. The library staff at city library had told me that the university library would have Hindi books. So I decided t0 go to University library.
Since I came to Japan, I had been looking for some books to read and had not been able to do so. In almost all the shops that I visited, I found only Japanese books..
I had been planning for a long time to go to the capital of the land of rising Sun. but every time, I tried, I failed for some mundane issue arising in office.
When in India, I had heard a lot about punctuality of Japanese people. We had a joke going on in India: The ‘S’ in IST stands for 'Stretchable' and not for 'Standard'.
That day, inspite of the clouds, the sky had turned much brighter than usual, no one would have thought what’s coming there way. Or probably there was no time to think. It just happened in a flash.
