Friends .. my love affair
Who doesn't share a very special bond with old school friends? While I may not exactly remember where I placed my house keys yesterday, I distinctly recollect what I did my my school friends during my formative years. The images of Jiji and I boarding the train from Guindy to Tambaram, mindlessly laughing and chatting, sharing simple lunches with Nupur, Janaki, and Sudha - all these memories are still fresh. In fact, as we regrouped using social media later on, we connected with others in different sections such as Neelima and bonded seamlessly. We have our bouts of disagreements, arguments, and cold wars; but the pleasure of being oneself is such a delight. During those youthful years, it was always a race to hang around with the most popular girls, lurk around the school corridors for talks, exchange simple gossip about the boys, and constantly vie to get into the favourite books of the teachers. As we grew up, we went to different parts of the world with the memories of o...