Had got up around a half past 5 and since getting back to sleep seemed to look well nigh impossible, I was lying in bed with second thoughts about going for a walk. Finally, the discipline within me had taken charge and prompted me to get out of bed, go through the chores. Was ready by a quarter past 6 and had got out of the house, soon after.
There weren't any auto rickshaws in the stand and the tea shops, enroute, that used to be active as I remembered them to be, remained closed and there was a great amount of calm and silence in the morning air! It was then that I'd overheard two guys talking about a 'hartal' at Guruvayur, called by the Youth Congress activists who allegedly had been roughed up by the police, yesterday, resulting in injuries to many.
I was crestfallen, in that, everything that I'd planned to do today had to be postponed for tomorrow. What a tremendous loss of opportunity besides adding on a day's delay for the execution of the work! There was no question of getting out of the house and I wasn't planning to drive today because the agitating people would not like their fellowmen go about doing their normal work!
Lekha was doing admirably well without help. Incidentally, Annie, our maid, left for the Gulf last Friday where she was gonna look after two children, of a neighbour of her's, working there. She had played foul, in that, while she left without giving us adequate notice, paradoxically batted for a delay in the reporting of her substitute because of the mandatory notice they had to give to their employers before calling it quits!
Vineesh - our standby driver - has promised to get us a substitute and even Seena, Lekha's beautician, has been looking around for one but without success, till now. So, shared Lekha's work in the kitchen like disposing of the waste - category wise and the washing of the dishes.
Only hope that a new maid takes up her position soon!
It was a quiet day otherwise and life had picked up momentum by afternoon. I've lost count of the number of 'hartals' that have been imposed upon us by the various political parties, this year.
Tailpiece.
A quick round up of the news as of now:-
(a) Udhav Thackeray takes over as the chief minister of Maharashtra with the support of Sharad
Pawar's NCP and Sonia Gandhi's Congress party.
(b) The BJP loses all the three Assembly bypolls in West Bengal much to Mamata Banerjee's
delight.
PS.
The sky was overcast for most of the day. Could rain at night.
There weren't any auto rickshaws in the stand and the tea shops, enroute, that used to be active as I remembered them to be, remained closed and there was a great amount of calm and silence in the morning air! It was then that I'd overheard two guys talking about a 'hartal' at Guruvayur, called by the Youth Congress activists who allegedly had been roughed up by the police, yesterday, resulting in injuries to many.
I was crestfallen, in that, everything that I'd planned to do today had to be postponed for tomorrow. What a tremendous loss of opportunity besides adding on a day's delay for the execution of the work! There was no question of getting out of the house and I wasn't planning to drive today because the agitating people would not like their fellowmen go about doing their normal work!
Lekha was doing admirably well without help. Incidentally, Annie, our maid, left for the Gulf last Friday where she was gonna look after two children, of a neighbour of her's, working there. She had played foul, in that, while she left without giving us adequate notice, paradoxically batted for a delay in the reporting of her substitute because of the mandatory notice they had to give to their employers before calling it quits!
Vineesh - our standby driver - has promised to get us a substitute and even Seena, Lekha's beautician, has been looking around for one but without success, till now. So, shared Lekha's work in the kitchen like disposing of the waste - category wise and the washing of the dishes.
Only hope that a new maid takes up her position soon!
It was a quiet day otherwise and life had picked up momentum by afternoon. I've lost count of the number of 'hartals' that have been imposed upon us by the various political parties, this year.
Tailpiece.
A quick round up of the news as of now:-
(a) Udhav Thackeray takes over as the chief minister of Maharashtra with the support of Sharad
Pawar's NCP and Sonia Gandhi's Congress party.
(b) The BJP loses all the three Assembly bypolls in West Bengal much to Mamata Banerjee's
delight.
PS.
The sky was overcast for most of the day. Could rain at night.
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