India, Nov. 16 -- Reunions are not just about those organised, structured, reasonably well planned, assemblages of erstwhile classmates who've now greyed. Many reappearances in our dotted lifescapes actually occur unannounced, unheralded and utterly out of the blue.

Very recently, I received a welcome text from a chum of yore. He had contacted me after years, nay decades, and I was thrilled to receive him at my home a few days later. Time-induced chasms vanished within minutes as we slipped very comfortably into a vibe that had been ours in years gone by.

We laughed quite uncontrollably, with stomachs almost aching, and eyes quite teary, simply because of our mirthful delight at recounting instances from our early days. Somehow these st...