Life On A Katta

I sit to write this post after experiencing two terrible seasons and two back to back defeats in the opening fixtures of the new Premier League season as an Arsenal supporter. Just yesterday Arsenal were 2-0 down within twenty minutes of the first half. They managed to pull back two goals before halftime only to lose the match 3-2 to Chelsea. The range of emotions I felt during that game sums up what I have been going through supporting Arsenal since 2005. I sit and wonder, like many people who aren’t into sports, as to why I do this to myself every year from August to May. Why do I care so much about a sporting institution that does not affect my personal or professional life in any way? Let’s start from the top. Arsenal football club under their longest serving manager Arsene Wenger were a force to be reckoned with. Going head to head with a brilliantly set up Manchester United side under the helm of Sir Alex Ferguson was no easy task. Arsene’s men managed to match and beat...

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” ― Albert Einstein “Music is the shorthand of emotion.”  ― Leo Tolstoy If I have to pinpoint to one song being the first I’ve ever heard, it might be wrong, but only one track pops up “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. The iconic image of John Travolta walking down the road with a can of paint in his hand trying to flirt with every girl he sees on the road will always be etched in my memory. The credit for that goes to my father who was and is an avid enthusiast of music and as he calls it “off beat films”. The memory of my first song ever should have ideally been a Hindi one as I was born and raised in Pune, an up coming metropolitan in Inda, in the mid 90s. My father had other ideas and I am very grateful to him for the same. After Bee Gees it was Abba then Boney M, little by little my brain actually turned into a Disco. ...