When You Are Old

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

           And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

         Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep" - WB Yeats

Different Shades Of Pale

Men at work at one of the myriad bylanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi

 

God to the rescue?

What if God was one of us?
Just a stranger on the bus
Tryin' to make his way home?
-(Joan Osborne)

Reflections from the road

A dry leaf rides on the dirty windshield, cars honk angrily to drill through the colourful chaos, bikes romance the gaps... and we move on!

Holy Hues

Glimpses of the Golden Temple at different hours of the day. The Golden Temple is a prominent Sikh Gurdwara located in the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. It was built in the 16th century - a place of worship intended for men and women from all walks of life and all religions to come and worship God equally.

One with Him

The Band

A street musician in Chandigarh, India

Them Poo-luters

Fresh day, cool breeze and early morning joggers smiled past as the leaves scattered around the pathway crackled in mischievous glee. My not-so-friendly neighbour was wearing a stinking expression and carrying a miniature plastic spade wrapped in black polythene in one hand and holding the leech to his Faginesque mutt in the other.

The freshly painted writing on the wall said it all. I smiled too. ‘Things’ are finally ‘falling in the right place’. No wonder, the row of genda phools near the community park gate painted a Van Gogh-ish look – just the yellow you wanted them to be.

These little pleasures of life, aah...I make myself a hot cup of garden fresh Assam tea to go with my morning newspaper. Sip tea, scan headlines...STOP. Page 1...anchor headline read: “Every day, 1.1 bn people poo without a loo”. 

A WHO-UNICEF report said “globally, 1.1 billion people still have no access to toilets, with India alone contributing 638 million to the figure.” This is one No. 1 spot India would love to flush away pronto. But are the folks sitting (or whatever) in the right place doing the needful.

Lo(o) and behold! Just when I thought things were finally falling in place.