Serendipity

Two days of serendipitous encounters. The first was reconnecting with Yusuf after some months - we last went to see the frightful Bee Season together. Yesterday, as Simran and I were doing a round of shopping and hanging out at Newbury Street's Virgin megastore, who should we see but the delectable Yusuf. Simran, of course, fell in love with his shaayari, his impeccable Urdu, and his witticisms, we had major round of Indo-Pak bonding and writing down words in Hindi, Urdu and English, accompanied by a wonderful snack at the Trident bookshop and cafe. We also talked incessantly about Sridevi - naturally, with Yusuf being there and all.... :-)
Then today, I connected with the phenomenal Dr. Nandini Manjrekar - who's at MIT for a year in the women's studies department. Nandini had given a talk at MIT a few months ago, on women and Gujarat riots, which I'd attended. Today, we met up so that I could give her a copy of Manjuben Truckdriver (brilliant film that I screened at the MIT South Asian LBGT film fest. a year ago) for her forthcoming class at MIT. As we chatted, we realized that we had a lot in common, including childhoods in Colaba, Bombay, TIFR friends, and even the same school - St. Joseph's, Colaba!!! Woo hoo, I now know a fellow Josephite at MIT. :-) Such fun, ya.