Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

Coming from India and the way I grew up from my childhood, I always view car as a status symbol and a way to po rtray wealth . Crossing over to U.S. and looking at the nation which doesn’t have any other mode of transportation except car is a bit of a wonder moment to me. Even after my association of  close to decade with U.S., I never owned a car in this country or back in India which is a bit of a puzzle. I might be the only one who after living for close to three years on a H1B work visa do not own a car. This doesn’t mean I am a lesser traveler or comes out less.  I am a regular and works every day - be it sunshine, rain, cold or snow. Even with all these different weather conditions and daily travel requirements , I still commute  mostly on a bicycle or a rented vehicle or book a uber , but never owned a four-wheeler . I tried on a quite a number of occasions to own a car , but for good or bad it never happened. For now, travelling on an electric bike ha...

I had spoken about my home city and nation in the last post. It has been two months short of three years since I relocated to U.S. after I left those places. Now let us talk about the places I had been living in the present t ime and which have been sustaining me during these three years. This edition will focus on none other than the windy city Chicago which provided for me and served as home away from home  for a lengthy duration. In fact, I have been living here for three years but my ass ociation stretches for more than last 5 years when I first entered the project through remote setting in Hyderabad in December 2019. I might have worked in Hyderabad, but the control is in Chicago even at that time. I might have worked on Indian canvas at that time but I had been regulated and managed by those in U.S. In a sens e I am a puppet player working in a foreign world within my native country where everything native seem fo reign. This foreign person was given strength by a coun...