REMINISCE

More than five years ago, I joined the magazine business & this contributed to a habit which now stays with me & has become a part of my DNA (it was to help give me a clearer perspective & insights into the person who parented the brand with me & now its just something I do). 

I’m ruined for life, as without fail the first page I read is the editor’s letter.

Recently, I caught the editor’s note in the national geographic traveller, on ‘memories of summer’ & it got me thinking of my early pre-teen days. I lived in a city I then believed, would be my home forever. Also from where, much to my disdain, I was brutally disengaged & brought to Mumbai, where I have now lived for what seems like forever.

All those who have been following my blog will know, that our first born is on her way to study her masters in journalism, and it so happens that she has chosen a city where I have these fond ‘memories of summer’ as the few years spent there, now simply seem like a summer away from home.

I dedicate this blog post to the city I loved and lost.

And of all other coincidences, my family home is a stone’s throw away from where Sarakshi will study & live. Alas, if only my parents had been blessed with my fine sense of wisdom & business-minded acumen, perhaps then we would still have owned, that beautiful two-storey home in the posh zone one area of one of the world’s most expensive city - London.

Our generation of parents are quite different from our fore-fathers, & we all have totally indulged our kin. Hence now, I’m off to drop my daughter to London & we have decided to stay a stone’s throw away from where I grew up (smile) & will thereby be assured of the opportunity to visit both my childhood home & school.

And the stars that be, have decided that my partner also travel to London (of all the cities in the world), at the same time on work (another truly strange occurrence at the very moment - makes one almost believe in the supernatural, disbelievers would dismiss it as - the law of probabilities on some mathematical calculation). 

Our darling son & dogs stay behind, much to the happiness of the boy. What he does not know is, that we have other plans & he will be well-chaperoned by extended family – evil grin.

The countdown has begun & we are all excited to visit this fun city. It will give me a chance to re-live the love I lost, (not having known at that time) I would not return for a long long longer time……

Keep reading this post as we reveal all the wonderful secrets of London.