Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Time is so detached and uncaring. The other day, Mom and I were walking in MG Road and I saw some people come out of "Monafood". Monafood...... Gosh I cant believe its been six years.......The one time and I suppose the only time I had gone to Monafood. Its been six years since then. So much has changed. SO MUCH. I dont think the way I did then, I guess I dont look the way I did, I am not that headstrong, presumptuous or nonchalant towards peoples feelings now and the city which was so new to me then is now home to me.

I guess it was just those times when you look at something, someone or suddenly a thought flashes by of the past and you are left with a strange kind of ache in your chest and it becomes difficult to swallow.

Six years ago.... we had gone to Poona station to see off (i dont really remember who) some friends to Jsr/Ranchi... (im not even sure of that).

He told me that He was taking me out for dinner. My immediate reaction was profound skepticism. Had my nagging finally brought him to a uplifted plane of realisation? Why was he being so sweet to me? A guy who never even had money to recharge his mobile phone, why was he going the "woman i'll woo you off your floaters clad feet" way? Nevertheless, I got really excited. When He asked me to pick a place, like every mesmerised idiot who comes to a metropolis, my first reaction was something akin to "Taj Blue Diamond, Bombay Brassierre...".
However, a sudden gush of mush for that Old Monk and Classic Milds consuming perennially broke darling, prompted me to blurt out the name of "Monafood"- a joint I had seen in Camp.

It was crowded and very dirty in Poona railway station. We held hands as we walked among the crowds and his arm used to brush against mine now and then. I couldnt stop smiling. DINNER PE JAA RAHE THE HUM!

The food was awful, the ambience even more so, the waiter's uniform was frayed, the corn in the soup was as hard as pebbles and He was upset that the place served only vegetarian food....
But I was so Happy. He took me out. He did it without my throwing a tantrum or nag show. I dont remember what we did after dinner. Mustve fought. Men get very cranky when the taste buds complain....

Its been six years... I have wined and dined in places that would not even consider places like Monafood as worthy of existence. Yet, this little memory, locked in I dont know what recess of consciousness came and held me by its grip for those five minutes. Probably, it wanted me to say, "Thank You Mr. K.P. for that dinner. Coz many, many and yet too few dinners later...... Monafood would never see the two of us together again.

13 comments:

eye-in-sty-in said...

camp bole toh sindhi camp??

were u giggling while writing this?

Kritika said...

nai camp bole toh MG Road, Pune mein.
I wasnt exactly giggling while writing this but I had a very stupid smile on my face...VERY SILLY

eye-in-sty-in said...

now that is quite endearing.....

eye-in-sty-in said...

btw, have added myself 2 ur blogger friends... hope u dont mind and will reciprocate.

GuNs said...

I have walked the lonely stretch of MG Road a million times looking into windows at things I could never afford and at people who I could never think of talking to. Through my journeys across MG Road, I have never come across this place you talk about: Monafood! Where exactly IS this place?

-PeAcE
--WiTh
---GuNs

GuNs said...
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Kritika said...

Guns,

Observe. Observe. Its next to a shoe shop whose name begins wid D. Dawood Shoes... i think but then who wud take the risk of having a shop named like tht?!

Its opposite Wonderland....

Amrutaa said...
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Amrutaa said...

Awww! loved reading it.. I want to cry ..

eye-in-sty-in said...

I saw Monafood a couple of weeks back...

and you have an award on my blog

http://eye-in-sty-in.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-makes-comeback-and-overdue.html

samraggi said...

Guess every gurl who has been stupidly in love and emoted over such small gestures made by her lover would feel a wave of nostalgia overpowering her..... And so am I......u did it agin gurl!!!!

Amrutaa said...

i read it again (yup yup loooser) ...n i wanted to cry again!!

Unknown said...

Will someone ever remember those loads of sweets at Karol Bagh, the unbelievable Mexican dinner at Amsterdam and the most luxurious breakfast that I've ever had at the Holiday Inn in Helsinki just like you remember this Monafood? Guess not...Not everyone's as lucky as old KP here.

-PeAcE
--WiTh
---GuNs