1. Guru Dutt.
It was a quiet Sunday to begin with. I was delighted to watch the TV programme 'Rangoli' dedicated to the versatile Hindi cinema man of all times and my favourite- Guru Dutt! How can one stay away, without being affected by those immortal lines of the beautiful number of 'Kaagaz ke phool', accompanied with the powerful visuals,
"Waqt ne kiya
Kya haseen sitam
Tum rahe na tum
Hum rahe na hum".
And it's my gut feeling that Guru Dutt had decided to embrace death after his movie, 'Pyaasa' as inherent in the number,
"Ye duniya agar mil bhi jaaye
Tho kya hai?
2. An afternoon at the mall.
Our friends, Suresh and Sindhu had come down from Thiruvananthapuram and they'd insisted on hosting lunch while spending time - shopping and yakkitiyacking - with us in one of the malls, nearby. It was a pleasant afternoon when we caught up from where we'd left last and I must admit that the gaiety, coupled with the pleasant ambiance prevalent around, rubbed into us too.
But what got written off in the bargain was my afternoon siesta - too small a sacrifice, however, to spend quality time with one's friends!
3. Offering condolences.
Syamala, my cousin's confidante and help, lost her 82 year old mother last week. I was wanting to look up the old lady ever since she'd been brought in at my cousin's house but it was not to be. The only solace was that she was ailing with cancer of her colon for a long while and had silently suffered a lot of pain. She's six daughters and a son and was at her ancestral house, undergoing treatment till last week!
What's remarkable is that she'd embraced her end with her most beloved daughter in company. A conspiracy of place, time and circumstances?
It was a quiet Sunday to begin with. I was delighted to watch the TV programme 'Rangoli' dedicated to the versatile Hindi cinema man of all times and my favourite- Guru Dutt! How can one stay away, without being affected by those immortal lines of the beautiful number of 'Kaagaz ke phool', accompanied with the powerful visuals,
"Waqt ne kiya
Kya haseen sitam
Tum rahe na tum
Hum rahe na hum".
And it's my gut feeling that Guru Dutt had decided to embrace death after his movie, 'Pyaasa' as inherent in the number,
"Ye duniya agar mil bhi jaaye
Tho kya hai?
2. An afternoon at the mall.
Our friends, Suresh and Sindhu had come down from Thiruvananthapuram and they'd insisted on hosting lunch while spending time - shopping and yakkitiyacking - with us in one of the malls, nearby. It was a pleasant afternoon when we caught up from where we'd left last and I must admit that the gaiety, coupled with the pleasant ambiance prevalent around, rubbed into us too.
But what got written off in the bargain was my afternoon siesta - too small a sacrifice, however, to spend quality time with one's friends!
3. Offering condolences.
Syamala, my cousin's confidante and help, lost her 82 year old mother last week. I was wanting to look up the old lady ever since she'd been brought in at my cousin's house but it was not to be. The only solace was that she was ailing with cancer of her colon for a long while and had silently suffered a lot of pain. She's six daughters and a son and was at her ancestral house, undergoing treatment till last week!
What's remarkable is that she'd embraced her end with her most beloved daughter in company. A conspiracy of place, time and circumstances?
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