Sometimes when I feel bored, I take shelter in my “libraryâ€, not necessarily to read a book but just to turn the pages of my old Dairies in which I would have written some quotable quotes. Here is one of them under the title, “The chimpanzee, “Children behold the chimpanzee He sits on the ancestral …
Category: Ooty
If winter comes…
After my post lunch cat nap, I looked around and said, “It is bright and Sunny’. Soon I was forced to ask myself, “Are’nt you shivering Head to foot?â€. I was not prepared for an answer to this lethargic question but I gave a silent reply by going to the kitchen to prepare the mood-changing …
Those good old days!
Twenty years have passed – Twenty summers with the length of twenty long winters. Again, I hear the waters rolling from the mountain springs. Yes, I was right in front of the Milk Union in connection with some personal works. Most of my colleagues have retired but those young chaps, now in their early fifties, …
Oh cuckoo, shall I call you a bird or a wandering voice?
Aesthetic sense! Yeah, that is it… A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. A garden with multi-coloured flowers and green meadows or even wild growth of trees and plants dancing to the tune of small birds which fly hither and tither in search of fruits or some tiny ponds ( may be to …
A Hide and seek game?
Urbanization has robbed Ooty much of its charm. Winter used to be as charming as the glorious summer, though one is tempted to sit at home during the slow moving winter. The oft repeated mantra, “If winter comes, cans spring be far behind†was the only solace to put up with the bone – chilling …
It’s 50-50!
The lousy weather which had been in great form for several days disappeared after giving way to the much-awaited sunny days. Yes, the sky is blue to the core as the sun made the atmosphere warm and bright! And yet, I was not able to fully enjoy the warmth of the sun or the beauty …
Oh, for a Sunny day!
After a long innings of cloudy and rainy days, the sky in Ooty was all set for a glorious innings from the opposition team led by sun. All these days, the atmosphere was filled with, “oh for a sunny day†from every nook and corner. Yeah, whoever you meet on the road or at the …
A Breakthrough Indeed!
Writers of fiction and facts often get themselves stuck up somewhere and look around for a breakthrough. It could be a glorious evening and the accompanying sunset or small and interesting events which relieve them from monotonous hours and days. I too am a writer of sorts or rather a self-proclaimed one! My way of …
Poles apart
“When to the session of sweet silent thought, I summon up the remembrance of things past”. These lines flashed across my mind while I was all alone at my favorite spot, enjoying the evening sky, the hills and valleys… the presence of several new houses, not withstanding. Thinking that I was all alone, I repeated …
Things are not what they seem
Like a passenger train that stops at every station, I had to stop here and there on the steep road to make my evening walk less tiresome but at the same time I wanted to make it appear that I was enjoying every step and looked around as if I was immersed in the beauty …