therighter

 By Nayana Natarajan (2014) Today The silhouette of the ice capped mountain stared back into his window glass, on a January night. Outside, he sat on the wicker chair smoking away his last Cuban cigar from the silver box that his then friend Eduardo had gifted him some years ago when he worked for Twinkle Oil, Gas & Energy Company in the United Kingdom. He gazed at the front door of his home in Kullu Manali and walked towards it to softly push the door. **************   Previously Upala Reva, a mechanical engineer from Mandya district did his Masters in Marine Engineering at Brown University. He became the Operations Head at one of the world’s leading Energy companies. His stint at Twinkle lasted for ten years before his world shook right under his Crocodile skin loafers. As a youngster Upala grew up on the rich paddy fields owned jointly by his grandfather and an agriculturist father who worked for a leading global agro-based company as a trader. As a teenager U...