A blog post after almost two months does not indicate my diminishing passion for blogging but highlights the hectic professional life I had in last 2-3 months. A marathon writing session, boring sessions of number crunching and perusing some serious statistical concepts.. These things took so much control of my free time that I did not even manage a 'happy birthday post' on my birthday. Yes, I celebrated my birthday last month and this was supposed to be 'a very simple birthday celebration' and guess what.. I had to treat my friends in a five star hotel :( In between I had an eventful trip to my home state Bihar.  Spent almost 48 hours in car and travelled more than 900 kms.  I was accompanied by an intern, a british girl of Indian origin who was having her first trip to Bihar.  Bihar was facing a drought like situation when I started for Bihar but the rain welcomed us as soon as we moved out of Patna and it poured heavily for next two days. The result:  we were driving on water clogged Bihar roads, and it was a tough task for the driver to negotiate the  water filled potholes  suddenly appearing under the wheels. Fortunately  the new Bihar government has made tremendous change to road conditions in Bihar and we could still manage to reach our destination. Though it was itneresting the see expression on my co-traveller's face while the driver negotiated the rough weather and bumpy roads. The highlight of the trip was our car breaking down around 11 pm on a deserted road and rain pouring down heavily. Imagine someone having the first trip to the 'notorious' Bihar and being in this situation. I must say that my co-traveller was really a courageous girl to take that trip considering the image she construed from the different books and media clips.

Meanwhile I finished the second book in Millenium trilogy ( a best-selling series translated from Swedish), The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson.  I must say Lisbeth Salander rocks. She is the most intriguing, sensuous and engrossing charachter I have came across in recent times. :)