As the flight to Pune took off early morning , the sun was relaxing behind the clouds. As the plane climbed to cruising altitude, the sun looked like a beautiful damsel coming out of the river after a bath. A radiant top with a mild cloud covering the latter half. And in a few minutes, the damsel turned into a bright and majestic fellow. Amazing what hyperactive hydrogen atoms a few billion miles away can…
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Three-legged dog and dripping liquid waste
My observations as I cycled to work today morning. 1. Three-legged dog: Past the HAL Station the traffic had stopped at the signal and I stopped too. On the uneven pavement were two dogs running merrily. A healthy street dog in front running on all fours whilst the other on three legs with fourth fourth leg disabled (lifted and bent). The disability did not seem to be a bother at all, it was running gracefully…
Sufferfest
Why are people negative when they communicate about challenges? Sufferfest is a common word that I see being used to describe an intense road race.’Endure pain’ seems to be the phrase people use to highlight toughness. In a city level aptitude test conducted, the MC was telling the students to look behind to see the tension writ on parents to highlight the competition. It seems fashionable today to highlight the suffering to market toughness. Irritating…
Pedestrians, chickens and a blind man
We seem to love fate!. Here are FOUR stories that illustrate this! #1: “ Was I tempting fate?” Near my house, the main road has been shutdown thanks to BBMP’s multi-year plan to widen the main road. Hence the service road breaks the brunt of traffic. And when a jam occurs, the motorcyclists take to the granite-slab pavement. Poor pedestrians. As a cyclist I either push/follow-the-pedestration on the pavement. Today a motorbiker was hell bent…
The lady and the goat
#1: “The lady in the car” The commute to office last Friday was interesting. As a cyclist, I enjoy watching reactions of people at stop lights. As the light turned green, the lady in car revved up and moved into the centre of the road whilst on the other side continued crossings showing his outstretched palm to the car indicating stop. He was enjoying his slow jaunt across the chaos. And the lady kinda stood…
Dog & chicken story
Enroute to my office is an blacksmith shop. The owner’s dog is always on a leash and tied to an iron pole. He sits majestically and watches the mad traffic. Quietly and peacefully. Never irritated about the fact that he is permanently tied to the pole. Adjoining this is a chicken shop with many cages filled with birds. Some of them are busy enjoying their feed, whilst some of them cock their head at the…
Clowder
On a busy Monday evening in Ghatkopar (Mumbai), a man was selling fish on the road side. He was seated on the road with fishes sprawled on a mat in front. When a customer came it, he took a big fish, scaled it, sliced it and then put it in a packet. Seated beside him was a clowder (collective noun for a bunch of cats) – hungry, furry cute four-legged friends! They were watching intently,…