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THE LUNCHBOX – A BEAUTIFUL SLICE OF LIFE When I came to know that The Lunchbox was going to release over here in Latur, I was literally over the moon as such (read sensible) movies usually don’t see the light of the day over here. I saw the movie on Friday itself as I was super excited about the movie since watching the trailer a couple of months back. And it was not just a movie…. It was a beautiful experience. I came out of the movie hall smiling in a state of unadulterated happiness…. Nirmal Anand,   if I may say so. The movie showed human emotions and relationships in the background of Mumbai city life in such a subtle and underscored way…. It was as if the characters were not just talking to each other but to me as well. The acting by all the three lead characters… Irrfan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui is top notch and so natural… it’s as if we are observing our next door neighbours… or office colleagues. But the highlight of the movie is that all three

Lourdes High School 2K Batch Reunion 1 st September 2013 Dr. Omkar Halwai When Benjamin called me a few days back and asked me to write this piece, I said Yes but to be very honest I had no clue where to start…  I was like… kitna time ho gaya school chhod ke yaar…. Ab main kaha se shuru karoon!!! I was in a state of limbo for a few days.. but then the original thought struck me again….Kitna Time??? and it made me realize something. Friends, most of us are meeting after 13 long years… most of us are on the doorstep of turning 30…. But I realized that still we have spent 14-15 years i.e. more than half of our life in our Lourdes… 7 hours a day five days a week … Lourdes had been our second Home. Right from the time most of us took reluctant toddler steps through our school gates holding on to our parents hands crying desperately  “Mummyyyyyy, main nahi jaaonga/jaoongi”  till the day we passed our SSC exams into an unknown  but exciting future, Lourdes saw us all throug