The sky's almost invisible from my verandah...you have to virtually crane your neck to catch a glimpse of the sky or count the stars adorning the velvet night sky...
I like my verandah otherwise...its pretty much non descript,what with a couple of chairs and a colossal pile of old yellow newspapers and dog-eared magazines stashed at one of the farthest corners..its one of those small nooks in the entire household which I can conveniently call 'my space'...
Ever since we moved to this place in 2000, the verandah is one of the places I've spent most of my time in...(another deliberate reason for this being the poor ventilation in my room..) the verandah has been my favourite hang out zone..my den..my abode..my whatever...
and unlike the usual ones, this one opens out to our backyard..overlooking which is a humongous garden and a shallow mucky pond behind it...you get the picture...your desperate endeavours to catch hold of another homo sapien are all going to turn futile...however hard may you try...
This is precisely why I adore this spot even more...one can spend hours in here..without being irked by the presence of another individual...and blissfully while away all his time gaping at the exotic birds and cranes that flock to the garden every morning.
Its one of the most wonderful sights...ever!!Watching the parrots and kingfishers and gaang shalik and haari chachas...the sparrows pecking on the papayas and mangoes..and the outrageous maali bhai shoo-ing them away with a stick!

Now!Doesn't it all seem like a dream?And to think that this place is positioned right in the heart of South Kolkata..My!My!We really are lucky!