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Thursday, 10 September 2009
Its been raining all day....
and the forest behind my house looks lovely - misty and green. Its called the Jahanpanah City Forest (!). It's interesting this concept of a 'City Forest'. From what I can make out there isn't much forestlike bio-diversity, most of the trees are local thorny Babul (Acacia) - nothing particularly pretty or interesting .....or useful......except for the much needed green cover it provides to Delhi.
I like working indoors when its raining outside. I'm reminded of when I was studying for my Xth Board Prelims in Jan '95 when it rained a lot and was freezing and I was snug in my huge purple Razai trying to memorize Sanskrit Shabd & Dhaatu Roops.
For the Shabd (noun) conjugation of Man (Nar), the first lines go
Nar(uh) Nar(auh) Nar(aaah)
Nar(um) Nar(oh) Nar(aan)
Nar(en) Nar(abhyam) Nar(ebhyee)
forgot the rest (there's another 4 or 5 lines of noun conjugation in Sanskrit)
Somehow rain in London never put me in any sort of similar mood....except a sort of generally disgruntled grey one. But even that mood got muted due to overuse. One can't really get dramatically and violently disgruntled every day.
My brother met Gautam Gambhir at work on Monday, played cricket with him, got his autograph ... and hasn't touched earth since. Unfortunately I've been out of the country so long, I can't recognise the newer people on the Indian cricket team including Gambhir. So while I've been supportive to him in his joy, I haven't been able to work up quite that level of enthusiasm as perhaps I'd have for Tendulkar or someone.
And as I take root and feel the tendrils curl up between my fingers and wind themselves around my laptop binding me to it forever, I work tap-tap-tapping into eternity....and feel everything vanish. Has cricket restarted? Is India playing somewhere? What's up with Arsenal? Does Afghanistan really have a new president? Did Samoa really switch from American left-hand-drive to Aussie right-hand-drive? Is a South-African pigeon carrying a data stick really 96% faster than South African ADSL broadband?
And most importantly,
Did I really fall so sick because I quit drinking vodka?
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