Does the title make you remember Khushwant Singh? Maybe… but this is my post… and these are the people I am associated with… so here we go…

Ma…. The ONE… if she is not there, I do not know what would happen to me… she is like oxygen to me… the one that I have been the most rude to, and the maximum number of times… the one who has always been around even though I could have been a better son to her… the one who I know will never ever leave me… My eyes are wet when I am writing this… but she deserves all the happiness in the world… anyday… and if I have to give up on my personal happiness for her, I would not even think twice…

Mrs. Rashmi Shandelye…
My English teacher in school… I was called her secretary; because of the attention I used to get from her… and that used to make a lot of kids around jealous… it was nice knowing her as a teacher… Though I do not remember much of that time, but I am sure she played an important role in helping me be a good student…

Mrs. Savita Laul…
The first female I cried for I guess… English teacher in class VIII… her husband got transferred to Powai, Mumbai… And she had to leave DAV, NOIDA… I remember buying a nice wall clock for her and giving it to her on her last day in NOIDA… we all students went to her place for a small farewell…

Mrs. Amrita Sharma…
English Teacher again… soooper doooper hott… I remember students getting into arguments on who is going to stand behind her seat for the group photograph in class X.

Vanja…
I was in a perfect teenage love with her ? used to look at her… watch her when she used to take the school bus, get down of it, used to get happy when she used to pass by me… but never said anything until one day, when I asked a friend to give her a “I love you” card while on our way back from the school.. He went to the front gate of the bus, and I was on the back gate… he gave her the card and got out of the front gate… And I ran away as soon as I was out of the back gate!!! Hehehe…

She was a senior… one year… her classmate then came to my house in an hours time… and asked me all stupid questions and all that crap… when I remember that day today.. It’s kinda strange and fun… we never actually were in a relationship… but still liked each other… strange first affair I had…

Mrs. Archana Deepak…
Physics teacher in XI-XII… people again were kinda jealous of the fact that I was liked by her… hehe… strange again… people were so damn shocked when I got 80+ in XII… and a lot of it I owe to the guidance from Archana Ma’am

Kanika…
Not much to talk about her… except that she was gave me more cards then anyone else in my life… A card to walk… a card to talk… a card to smile… phew… too many of them… was very difficult to hide all of those in books, notebooks, drawers etc etc…

Taru Vohra…
My love in college… the most beautiful girl I have ever been with… the simplest of them as well… at times I have terribly missed being with her after I broke up… even today I miss a person like her in my life… but then past is past… We started going around when I was in the second year of college and were together for over an year… we start going around because she was one helluva energy resource… always smiling… always happy…

Things changed after a few unfortunate things happened in our lives… she changed me changed… things did not look like working out… and finally we broke up… sad it was… I today feel that I should have handled that situation better… but then it’s over now…

Meghana Jain…
The best street play director, one of the best designers I know of… she was an integral part of my theatre community in college… always looking for new idea… open to thoughts and suggestions… and very very very high on creativity… People like her should always be there in ones life… they make a lot of difference…

Nimisha Bhagat…
She I guess has laughed the most on my stupid jokes… a wonderful singer and a gem from heart… she is still around when needed… I love to call her Choti… and she calls me Big B… and I love her for whatever she has been for me…

Bhumika Bhardwaj…
I had the longest perfect relationship with her in my life… close to about 3 years we were together and broke up because of family related issues…
The only person in my life who knew how to get that perfect delicate balance between friendship and relationship… someone who stayed a friend who loved me… and helped me be that too… just perfect… par Uncle God maybe has thought of better things for me…

Something that started with weekly Monday evening calls to daily 1630 calls to meeting once a week to loving each other… and staying the best of friends… seeing someone move from studying to struggling for a job to being ok and then successful was what we did together… Bhoomi, I thank you for all the smiles that you gave me… I remember our conversations about bhoomi and samandar being together always ?

Mrs. Bindu Krishnan…
Like a mom, like a guardian, like a friend, like a sister, like a mentor… she has been around taking care of the people in her team in Spectramind… she is still around… actively or otherwise… taking care of the kids who have grown both professionally and personally because of her…

Love you ma’am for all that I have learnt from you… and for all that you have to give us in our lives…

Maya Didi…
She knew I was bloody naughty the moment she started talking to me… and she and everyone at her place calls me Pineapple Pie because I love pineapple… she is a darling.. And one of the most beautiful women I have ever known… Didi you rock… you are the best…

Shikha…
My girlfriend in Hughes… I think that I rushed into this relationship because of my need for emotional support… and it obviously did not work out… while this relation was fantastic on a few fronts, it was a total mess on the others… I still feel that the conversations and more while we were in the car parking and the rain was pouring like hell on the roof were amazing… and I still feel that I did not accept her friends in my life… and a few more things that I know I went wrong with… this was one relationship which made me cry the most as well.. Which I am not ashamed of… I have experienced extreme pain, disappointment from myself and my partner… and I hope people do not rush into relations like I did…

I came out of this relationship very bitter, emotionally independent… and much stronger within then ever… and today I think I owe a lot to this particular period…

DVD…
Boss @ work… someone who told me what not to be, by being one of the not so good people I have worked with…

Neha…
She was one of the very first friends I made thru Orkut… and one of the very few people who is a perfect blend of beauty and brains… unfortunately for me, she had to get out of India for her research and it was just not possible for us to get together… She is one helluva practical girl…

Richa Bhardwaj…
One of the very few teenagers I know who talk sensibly and has a lot of brain… I love her for letting me be what I want to be… and has been appreciative at the smallest opportunity… one of the people I would like to see achieve great heights in her life… she plans to own a flower shop someday and I hope to learn about flowers from her as well…

Sayantani Das Gupta…
I call her Sayan, 10e, the all purpose woman and what not… my conversations just cannot get better then what they were like with Sayan… and today after she has gone out of India, I feel a need to talk to her more then anything else at times… it was so effortless, so profound, so much funny… so much everything that a conversation should be and can possibly be…

And lately, I have met some of the most wonderful women thru my friends, thru Orkut etc… Anku, Sandhya (I know her from Hughes though), Anjali, Bindiya and a few more who I am in the process of knowing more…

And the list above is for sure incomplete… there have been n number of people who have played a very important part in my life and have helped me be what I am today… Good or Bad, I owe a lot to them!!!!

God Bless Women, without them the world would have been such a mess!!!!