It is holiday time in Sweden. Still I am working at SASNET’s office at Ideon in Lund, but only for a week to update the information on our extensive website. Also planning for a journey to Stockholm in the beginning of August to meet the Ambassadors of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as part of our efforts to secure a continuation of SASNET after 31 December 2009 when our current funding from Sida dries up.

A few weeks ago I was also in Stockholm along with my wife Bubu to participate in a grand Indian wedding ceremony. Patrick Saha from Västerås (with a Bangladeshi father and Polish mother) married to Piali Basu from Huskvarna (from an Indian Bengali family). It was a nice reminder of my own fantastic wedding 26 years ago in Kolkata, the greatest and nicest experience of my life with the Hindu wedding procedures that lasted for a full three days. 

Well, totally different, tomorrow I will set out for a week-long cycle tour in Germany, along the rivers Oder and Neisse (border rivers between Germany and Poland) down to Dresden, along with my close friend Reinhard from Bielefeld. Naturally I will not bring my laptop on such an expedition, so there will be no blog postings during the coming week.