Discoveries

I was reading December's National Geographic magazine and the page on Chia seeds caught my eye. The description of the plant and the seed so reminded me of 'Ganji' seeds we used to eat as children but on closer look, it was different. Ganji seeds are black and almost totally flat and have a shape similar to heart. We ate it all the time while in primary school; not with any celebration but going to the plants and finding the dry seeds and popping them into our mouth to feel the white layer getting formed was a totally subconscious act.

Rajani and I fought bitterly on lunch table and this time also it was about politics. Nothing new really but this time because A was absent(she is the only one who can shut us up) it went on till I reached my floor. I sent her an apology message later acknowledging that pseudo people like me are not to be taken seriously. She said it was a surprise that educated people like me could think the way I did. It flared me up again and I replied that I had made up my mind in high-school itself and I was not educated enough then. She said I was just trying to show-off by being different. I said fair enough and we dropped off after that. She is one spoilt brat.

Sunsets are so beautiful these days and yesterday when I saw it, I wanted to make the whole floor look at it. But everybody seemed so busy so I went around till I found an old team-mate of mine and felt happy.

I liked Mr. and Mrs. Iyer also because I thought it was trying to break the set notions about Muslim men in the minds of general public.