Wr non-stop chatter was wat everybody expected...

i reached the place 20 min before the scheduled time 'coz i tot d place wud be crowded and ppl wont be able to recognize me.... but the food court was empty with only a lovey dopey couple... with time to kill, i borrowed a pen and started scribbling innocuously...

Two guys walked over hesitatingly and asked if i was d Rat... unfortunately i am one... :-P they turned to be Sherkhan and his blog partner Maitili... They informed that a couple of bloggers from Ratlam had left saying it was getting late.. come on it was not even 7 pm, the time fixed and agreed upon... Then i noticed Hussain walk along looking lost... i waved him in.. his excuse "i had never been here"... Tried calling Ashwin and Gunjan.. Gunjan was already on the escalator...

Soon Vaibhav joined us.. Ravi and his non-blogger friend Abhiruchi joined us an hour later...

if i had expected initial hesitation among the guys, there was none.. oh yeah except for Maitili.. but even he started talking animatedly once questioned about his school.... the youngest of us all Maitili is just 19 and writes great stuff in Hindi...


Sherkhan got serious when asked to explain about his choice of subject, Anarchism... it was real heated up discussions but happily enough there was general acceptance of his views..

Gunjan had the spotlight all thru the 2 & 1/2 hour meet.. that was natural coz his recent promotion of being a father and also his interest on Photography...

Hussain's Interest on Graphic Novels & Books had every one speaking up... arey he turned out to be the Son of a famous book stores owner here... hmmm... but wat embarrassed me was, i had met him couple of times at d store but i hadn't recognized him even though we are online buddies for quite sometime now... :-/ sheesh...


Vaibhav chose to be the silent listener talking only needed and emphasizing the widespread acknowledgment one gets if we write really good...


Ravi who was late talked a bit about IIM I.. this got Maitili interested and the had a conspiring talk for the rest of the meet... :-D

The discussions ranged btw Books, Sitcoms, Movies, Operation Cyclone, Politics and Indore, in general... Munching on the Cheese sandwiches, Burgers and btw sips of Coffee nobody noticed the time slipping away... the plan for an hour long meeting extended well beyond 2 hrs... some pics for u...

Some myths associated...

• atleast two believed that i was a guy until the meeting...
• atleast one was skeptical of me given my not so old look....

Some lines that stuck in my mind...

"No booze is not wat boys meets finally spirals down to... its wat the meeting starts with "

"All Booker prize winners are crap. Period"

"If someone from Indore causes terror will u end up destroying the whole Indore ??"

 :-D all in all it was a great meeting.. thank u guyzzz... we rock...

P.S # 1: Thanks to Gunjan for the Refreshments.. boy wr we all starving....
P.S # 2: Thanks to the Food court guy who lent me d pen and went mysteriously absconding...
P.S # 3: i 'll end with a pic of Relative of me who came visiting yday nite, who i finally drove out.,.. Sheesh "how unfriendly this Rat is, ain't I?"

P.S # 4: The official countdown begins... yaay....
P.S # 5: No more Post scripts.. ha ha ha ha