The heat is so overpowering I could cut it with a knife…no, I think I would need a sword…Each movement I make feels like I m attempting to move the earth…and an unknown counter force seems to be resisting my every feeble attempt.
I am languishing like a lazy lizard…and the bean bag into which I [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 19, 2008
Escaping from the shackles of the Heat Monster…
April 10, 2008
The wish that made a difference
“Good Evening Madam!”
The voice jerked me out of my reverie & I realised it was the Lift Man.I responded back with a nod & a Good Morning. “Aap kahan pe kaam karti hai?”, he asked again. Now I started to feel irritated. Why can’t he just do his job instead of asking unnecessary questions which [...]
April 7, 2008
The Free Gift :)
makes you feel a bit lonely isnt it…. imagine this… a silence punctuated by falling snow… a darkness highlighted by an inky sky, and a music distanced by a touch of melonchaly…
Yet another evening alone in the vast urban wilderness on the shores of the lake Michigan…
As Salman Rushdie would say… its a moody lake… [...]
April 4, 2008
Summer Days are here
Summer time!
The end of exams, & the promise of long days of fun..
You won’t hear me complaining about the sun
Summer time!
End of exams, beginning of holidays
Long afternoons & even longer evenings
Board games, made up games, badminton, & truant play
Summer is Mangoes!
Raw Mango pickle & cool curd rice
Mango shake, Mango ice cream, Aam ras [...]
April 3, 2008
That day of the year again!
My birthday is just around the corner again. I am turning a really grey-with- strands-of-white twenty seven ….I have just come back after finally hitching a tailor to stitch my blouse since I have promised to wear a saree on the DDay…And I cant help thinking, why do we make such a fuss out of [...]
