The 8 day long hiatus was caused by some deep rooted foreign conspiracy, I am sure. First the institute network goes poof for 2 days, and then I get viral fever (touched 103 F, my personal best since 1996). Then when I recover enough to sit in front of my comp, some dude in the hostel blows up some fuse and the network cable connecting our hostel to the www is burned out!! The weather is too cold for me to go trudging half a km to the comp centre, in my vulnerable health.

So finally today, as I regained the famed Sabnis strength, I attended a couple of classes and now am sitting in the heated cosy environs of the comp centre writing this.

Lucknow in January is NOT the best place to fall sick in.