Viewpoint

Why is Hindu Terrorism such an unfathomable thing like the presence of Zika Virus in India? At least in my native and around, it's been there for the last two decades - I had a light brush with it in 1998 - and it's only spread and become stronger and very obvious.

We've got new neighbours and it's taken us some time to get used to them. There are a lot of people in their house - 3 children and many elders - and they fight a lot, keeping all their windows and doors open. The old lady hits her husband occasionally and the young lady cries too. Once they were shouting so badly that I got alarmed and ran out into the passage only to return sheepishly. They are also nocturnal - the small boy and his dad cycle in the passage at midnight and don't sleep till much later, as I discovered the other day.

Anu wants to become an artist now. She is very imaginative and the house is full of many evidences of her creativity scattered all over. Only she doesn't care to clear them by the end of the day. 

Fighting to Stay Fit

A break after a long time and though I didn't think I would, I am missing my mother-in-law a little bit. She's not a meddlesome lady and I guess the only complaint I had was that she just couldn't help me with anything. Whenever this grouse comes up in my mind I ask myself what I would've done if she was disabled. Shouldn't I be taking care of her on my own?

My husband took the opportunity to subject his parents to various tests and to our relief and may be a little bit of disbelief and awe too on our part, they are fighting fit. My husband thinks it's the jowar roti that they used to eat in plenty before, may be because I cannot make it 😒. My mother-in-law does not trust the doctors back home and thinks Bangalore has the best ones, after her husband got his terrible backache repaired.

I thought of using the ragi I've been hoarding for long, washed it, dried it in the cloudy balcony and in my efforts to save time, just overloaded the grinder a bit I guess. The lid flew out and so did every grain of ragi inside the jar. Kitchen was a pretty sight but messy and cumbersome and not to mention, time-consuming to clean.

I love red rice. I like the chewy feeling it gives my mouth. Just waiting to hear from some experts that there are some side effects, of course.

Wishful

Right now all I want is to go somewhere far, live among strange people, listen to unknown melodies and sleep peacefully.

Up the Ladder

It seems one of our ministers had to climb a tree to get the mobile network when he'd gone visiting his constituency. One more reason to be thankful to the good old trees. I would've expected him to go the full hog for childhood's sake but he conveniently used a ladder. Disappointing.

"Daughter-in-law is busy slogging and the mother-in-law is sleeping on the sofa having finished her breakfast. She wakes up after 3 hours only to ask the daughter-in-law if she could make okra sambar instead of daal". Now this is the kind of joke that keeps me going, really. 

Animated

It's peacock's turn to feel like the king, I mean the PM, now. I mean, it belongs to the same league of celibate and thus celebrated, animals. I'm sure many got their biology facts re-verified after the revered judge's praise of the bird's chastity. By the way, did peahen have some early form of IVF? May be he would want to claim that too. 

All the Cow's Men

If today someone tells us the meaning of being cowed down, we'll understand it instantly, more clearly than ever before.

In love with the sky once again. You look up and it's a cloud and breeze show.