Indira Gandhi's election slogan should be changed for an average desi engineer in the US. Roti, Kapada aur Makaan ( also the name of an Amitabh Bachchan ( I had to Google this most famous surname for its correct spelling! tsk tsk) starrer ) no longer truly represent the toughest assets to accquire to lead a basic life here. Rather let me propose ( pun fully intended ) Biwi, Naukri aur Gaadi. And Ganga ki Saugandh each of them involved a lot of Khoon Pasina for this Mard. Now that the dust has settled, the Raaste ka Patthar have been removed and I have found a nice Dost, have become a Coolie to a different master and can Faraar away on a new car, its time to start blogging again ! :)

Ofcourse I have wonderfully amusing stories about each of these experiences which I will soon write about.

Also I couldnt help notice that this summer is chock-a-block with so many potentially great sounding movies. Hitchiker's, Interpreter and StarWars have already released ( NO ! I will not warrant Monster-whatever-it-is as a movie ). In the next two months, Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Depp starring Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory, the marriage breaker ( ? , No, I dont read People and its intellectually stimulating clones, but you cant miss this if you live here in the US, however hard you may try ) Mr and Mrs Smith, Ron Howard's Cinderella Man starring Crowe, Batman Begins, Nicole Kidman's remake of Bewitched and many many more.

In Hindi, there's Vinod Chopra's Parineeta ( lovely songs btw ), Paheli, Bengal's Bose and Aamir Khan's Rising ( all offering more than the usual ladka-meets-ladki-villian baap story ) along with Bunty aur Babli . I rub my hands with glee ( though my *eyes* are crying out with the potential future stress on them) at the prospect of some quality stuff this summer.

Update : Here's CNN roundup of the summer movies.

It's good to be writing something again, never mind the number of readers and all that ..