am very impressed by the enthusiasm shown by you all for revival of this blog. will see how long it lasts :-) unfortunately all the pics we took at this mega get-tog in may are dark and unusable. will wait for the patriarch of the sarkar family to send me some pics - thank goodness one of us is trigger-happy!! all well here - shashank is in Tsokar, happily camping away with no contact possible. kanishk is studying away - school reopened after the summer hols yesterday. for those interested - he did have a haircut! am posting a before-after set of pics of him.