Friday, May 11, 2007

ला ला ला ला

वाह वाह!!!!
मज्जा आ गया !!!
ही ही ही .....हम बहत खुश हैं ......
ही ही ही....
ला ला ला ला ला
ला ला ला ....

Home

The Gulmohur tree outside my house blooms. I see it bloom for the first time. They say it is blooming for the first time. Theres barely a trace of summer in this crazy little town of mine. No trace of summer in my mothers garden.
The idiot box has been struck by lightning, its the best that could've happened. I read all day long. I stretch and yawn, stretch and yawn and smile and grin. Its perfect.
Oh boy I'm happy, really really happy. And it rains vey often too. And this crazy little town of mine is perfect in the rains. I'm just happy. Oh damn. Very happy. And maybe I'd learn to swim, at twenty one.

Friday, May 04, 2007

A Day

"The Sun said it won't shine too harsh for us, the clouds have said they won't pour for us, the wind said it would blow all day long for us. Beautiful day, isn't it. The whole village is going uphill to pray in the jwanka temple, pray to our ancestors. Do you want to stay back, it'll be just the two of us in the whole valley. Nobody just us. We'll go running all day long. All over the valley." she looks at him and says.
He looks at her suspiciously.
She keeps looking back, not pleadingly, she just keeps looking.
He tells her he would meet her near the village well soon after sunrise as soon as the people have left for the hill.
She leaves quietly, unlike she had always thought, no sign of joy and no sign of thrill.
She looks for the yellow dress, the one she hasn't worn in years. It's an ankle length dress, it has yellow flowers with green leaves, there's some lace on the sleeves and it has pearl buttons from top to bottom on the front. There is nothing so special about it, it's just that she loves the way how it so long and so light.
She goes to the well and she finds him standing there. They start walking out of the village. The village is all empty, the street is all empty except for the few stray dogs. As they reach the end of the village they start running. Slowly first and then with each breath as the heart starts beating fast and as the soul is filled with this sense of freedom, that divine feeling they began running fast.

To be Continued...........

wrote this months ago

Thursday, May 03, 2007

Grrrr

And suddenly my quest for academic mediocrity, the bare essential for the life I want to live, seems endless.