Jugalbandi

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JUGALBANDI

This is getting predictive. It has now become customary for me to log in to blogspot every morning, and start looking for SRK's new blog. And sure enough there is bound to be one, more interesting than the previous. Now the next step is to write a comment on that. After the comment is over the thought process starts. How to write another blog to keep the ball rolling?(it has become fashionable to keep talking about the rolling ball in these days of WorldCup 2006). And so here goes another from me.

It has become a sort of "Jugalbandi" between "Mama" and "Maruman" (meaning "Uncle" and "Nephew" for those who are not familiar with Tamil). I must admit though that my nephew is way ahead of me in terms of the quality of the content and I am only filling up space to keep the continuity going. I am at the same time proud that I have a smart nephew and I can proudly tell my friends and associates that SRK is my nephew and ask them to read his blogs.

I will wait for the next one now that the BALL is in his COURT or should that be FIELD.

The choice is purely yours depending on whether you are a tennis fan(Roland Garros) ot a football one(World Cup)

Adios!! Till we meet again.

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