Homecoming

As I woke up this morning, I remembered a Bengali folk song for no reason:

Mon amar pagla ghora re, O amar pagla ghora re, Koi thaika koi loiya jas…

Which roughly translates to – My mind is like a mad horse, it makes me wander – something like that.

I do not know why I remembered this song all of a sudden. I do not even listen to this sort of music anymore.

Anyway, I started missing home and north-east all of a sudden. It has been more than two and half years…

I had planned to go home this December. My leave was approved long back. But I was having second thoughts. Especially after mom started nagging me about getting married. So, I had given up my plan…

But this song changed my mind.

I called up my mom; “I am coming home this week…,” I told her…