First Light

Greetings, all.

My name is Sudeep Chakravarti. I was a tenured journalist. These days, I'm a gypsy. I live in Goa. It's gypsy HQ. I write. It's an unfettered life, such as it is.

It's been a couple of weeks since a near-death experience. I lived. The car did not. My friends chide me about reaction time, how I must begin to act my age. I tell them, to act your age is to die before your time. They don't think it's funny.

But it gives you something to do.

So here I am, avowed non-follower of trends, wearer of standard blue jeans, old watch, faithful pen, four year-old IBM notebook, doing the trend thing. A blog. Indeed.

The religious would call it a new day. I call it first light. It's beautiful. You should see how it plays on the gulmohar tree, crowned red-orange, outside my window.

I'm glad I lived, even if the car did not.