Got into an expensive and extensive medical treatment
Completed my masters
Watched Coldplay live
Podium finish in D92 District Finals
Tried slam poetry
Shouted through HSG in a room full of strangers
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions and will you make more for next year?
Read only 4 out of 12 books resolution.
For 2026, hoping to be healthy
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nivu-Happy, Ankita-Dushyant, Parixit-Ankita
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Hreed.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. It was quite a fuck all year.
Within India, Ahmedabad, Madurai, Rameshwaram, Chikballabur Adiyodi, Coorg, Mysore, Hampi, Kabini, Calcutta, Pune, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Kapurthala, Hyderabad, Shantiniketan, Chandigarh, Calcutta
6. What would you like to have in 2026 that you lacked in 2025?
Happy job
Pink of health
7. What date from 2025 will remain etched upon your memory?
Not date, but the memory of shooting unbearable pain and finally getting admitted to Ruby Emergency and S driving rock steady with sky rocket heartbeat and Maa crying though it all, but strongly making tough decisions. Finally making it home after signing bond papers. As dramatic as it could get.
And ofcourse 11th December which took Hreed away.
Leaving morbidity aside, Coldplay live was amazing!
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
NOTHING. However, so proud of S to be able to give me my dream Calcutta life. The anxiety and possibility of time limit came later.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Health
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Yes. So much. I can't even.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Nothing.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Sunil's. OH MY GOD!
Alpana
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Fate?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Medines. Injections. Procedures.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Coldplay.
Homecoming.
Convocation.
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2025?
Michhe Obhimaan Korona Priye
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
1. Happier or sadder? Sadder
2. Thinner or fatter? Thinner
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Growth
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Nothing. I was absolutely disciplined and yet, What A Fuck All Year.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
Wrote a very skeptic letter to Santa because S is an optimistic pumpkin
Plum cakes at home :")
Beer for lunch with beautiful food (and said hello to smoke, my old friend)
Slept through Avatar in 3D glasses (such a waste)
Adda, Kebab, Whiskey through night till morn
Did not put up a Chritmas tree after many many years, ended the already over day with shaken faith
21. Who did you spend most of the time on the phone with?
Noone. So happy about it.
22. Did you fall in love in 2025?
No
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None.
24. What was your favorite Tv programme?
Sex and the City
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Fate?
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
Read 4 books after forever
Kobi
White Nights
The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse (best!)
The Fall of the House of Usher
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Fakira - All covers, nonetheless
28. What did you want and get?
Homecoming
Convocation
29. What did you want and did not get?
Job at Calcutta
Health that brings happiness and heart
30. What were your favorite films?
F1
31. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
30 till 40 :)
I was at Calcutta, Maa came to Newtown. Ate, slept, did Ganpati visarjan and ended with Peter Cat. It was so boring and just perfect. Need this to repeat always.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not losing H
33. What would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2024?
Anything that supported TVS. Disgusting age issues.
34. What kept you sane?
Maa, S.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Alfieeeeeeee! So hot!
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
None.
37. Who did you miss?
Noone.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Noone.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025?
Prayers don't work. God has favorites. Stop breaking your head, and Health.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
But I was late for this, late for that, late for the love of my life...
