PALLAVI BARAT

PALLAVI BARAT

The seventh post on my blog is dedicated to Ms. Pallavi Barat. She is another person with whom my friendship dates back to almost twenty years. I first met her in the second grade in the academic year 1989/90 at Indian School Muscat, Oman. We were classmates in the third grade in the academic year 1990/91, before the shuffling of our divisions.

This well-travelled lady, who left Oman in the sixth grade, has lived in three of the four ndian metropolitan cities, namely New Delhi (the national capital and the northern metropolis), Mumbai (the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra) and Kolkata (the capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal).

A fellow Libran, Pallavi was born on the nineteenth day of October, and she possesses all the qualities of a typical Libran, namely she is diplomatic, urbane, romantic, charming, easygoing, sociable, idealistic and peaceable.

With the confidence she exudes and her radiant smile (which, apart from her eyes, is her best feature), she would have been an asset to the hospitality industry (she pursued a course in hotel management), but chose to pursue a course which is as different from hospitality management as chalk is from cheese, namely dispute resolution.

She now lives in the city of Townsville in the Australian state of Queensland. An avid quizzer, she is a fan of actor Shah Rukh Khan, the Badshah of Bollywood.

Here's wishing Pallavi all the very best of luck and success in all her future endeavours. I certainly do hope to keep in touch with her.