Jai Shree Ram!

Finally last day of 2020…and what an year this was... not only for Sethi Sahib but for everyone here on this planet who has been a witness to this crazy year… who would have thought a year which we started with a beautiful trip to Orissa, would have ended up being on couch for next 10 months … and is it looks from here It will be few more months before couch can gets its breath back …

Yes “the corona year” 2020. Even Salman bhai changed his this year bigg boss’ line to “apne mata pita se payar corona”… he he he and though he did got high and launched some weired songs from his farm this year but sethi sahib still waits for his next movie raadhe.. as his unending commitment to Salma Bhai’s weired stuff continues.

And what the world did this year other than sitting on couch and literally working the bums off the 14 hours a day workday, well we saw the world beating thalis, lighting diyas, tablikhis being chased, Labourers on foot, “PPE kits, masks, sanitisers” became next to roti kapda and makaan ,  we time travelled with kids and watched ramayan and shakitmaan again on TV , binged on unending webseries , linkedin became more sought after than tinder ,  online classes for kids and adults alike, online meetings, online greetings, webinars on how to cut your nails to how to fly aeroplanes ,and blatant misuse and abuse of the phrase “the new normal.. people got high on kaada as deepika  , rhea got thrashed for stashing maal and kangna’s house got thrashed for thrashing everyone on twitter, and who can forget the long stand off at LAC, and the stand off at delhi border by punjabi farmers a and last but not the least the daily count of corona cases and race against time to get the elusive vaccine out and yes it all happened in one single year.  

Well this year also had some beautiful memories for sethi sahib.. Chantu and Bantu standing next to me on either of my sides as I go through my daily WAH routine, eagerly looking into every email, every meeting , every phone I did from my office laptop . They picked up a total new vocabulary – Thanks & regards, As discussed, CC, BCC MED/PDD etc. Basically every possible office jargon that was up for grabs they whole heartedly picked it up, including names of everyone’s bosses, bosses’ bosses  and their super bosses.  In fact , if it was up to them they would have even joined the meetings and ran through them , and off course they did succeeding in barging few of them.

This year also had all of us huddled together for each one of us. While Dad made sure we all were safe and had our daily doses of kaada, fruits, chai and gundechis …mom held the fort together  as VKS (why its strangely sounding like Vikas 😉) got bogged down by dreaded C. No words of thanks can express for what they both do every day for all of us. Blessed is all I can say.

K again coped up with Sethi Sahib nuances this year while juggling between Nanni’s online classes and offline master classes. Quietly she made the “year at couch”  for Sethi Sahib looked easy and comfortable.. And as always in true El Mirachi style all I want to say… K did I thank you.. I will…

V and S as humesha ki tarah added that subtle humor and tonnes of patience as they glued all of us together. Its beautiful to see them right next to each other and I pray, hope and send all my  wishes for them to be always like this , side by side, smiling  and being always there for everyone and for each other.

While Chantu got hooked up to you tube tech channels and picked up skill of addition subtraction and division and despite sethi sahib best efforts didn’t picked up  skills for learning tables till 20,  Bantu, his under trainee wasn’t far behind as he read more and wrote less as he peeped into all kind of electronic screens  and repeated everything that everyone said in his own style.  Another beautiful memory for this year was to put to both these heavy weights to sleep together every night when VKS were on first floor . The tik tok videos never sounded more fun as we three binged together  and it was different out of the world feeling kicking each other all night as chantu and bantu rotated in tandem with earth’s axis on the bed at night.

And as sethi sahib wraps up his only post of  2020 … all I want to say is that “Blessed and gratitude” are the word that comes to my mind for this exceptional year and “Hope and happiness ”are the word that Sethi Sahib wishes to starts the next year  for all of us.

Till then, lets say Jai Shree Ram and have a happy healthy , smiling year ahead.