First rainy day of the season

The parching summer is cooled off in Mumbai with the advent of first shower of monsoon. Everyone felt relieved…umbrellas, raincoats came back in action. As it is said and well experienced- nothing can stop the pace of life in this city. It was first day of it pouring down… morning rush hour; road was full of vehicles as usual, the traffic not paying too much attention to the thin layer of rain water sheet passing under it. I noticed few stretched umbrellas in the middle of the road. They were moving in a certain pattern… as my vehicle reached nearer I realized they were the municipal workers; clearing clogged drainage chambers..some of them had rain-shield, some didn’t but their work was on… ‘remove the sludge from the chamber and move it away’ . I was shocked to see some of them carrying the sludge in their bare hands! We all are well acquainted with our system’s late realizations regarding management of their responsibilities. If the cleaning job is done before advent of the rain then such critical situations could have been avoided. Even if it is too much of a responsibility to keep our over loaded public services out of menace; can’t the authorities equip their employees with basic accessories of gloves and umbrella or rain coat! Isn’t it a shame for all of us who call ourselves proud residents of the democratic India? Or it is best example of our negligent, reluctant nature! Workers whom we describe as fourth grade workers, who clear the dirt we all pass out from our homes to the public areas, are denied basic care for a living being! The sight was very moving…. I felt ashamed.. but what did I do… I only drove my car ahead.

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Sip of freshness

Writing here is like taking my head out of a heap of work load and stretch myself wide in the open, pure air. It feels like breaking the unseen bondage chains whose burden I feel again n again. In here when I hear the sound of those heavy chains getting crushed, I feel my lightness again , I can feel myself floating with the refreshing breeze, waving my wings just to keep me gliding n sailing in this beautiful shimmer of golden sunrays..here I drink the morning dew, here I touch the freshness of life...please don't wake me up if this is a dream.

entertainment

Evening time after returning home and weekends of course are meant for entertainment. TV, movies and other similar modes, which we consider our entertainers, have complete hold on us during the entertainment hours. After all, entertainment is a necessity for slogging souls of ours and when we don’t need to slog then entertainment is our right.


I returned home… switched on the TV, immersing myself into the couch. Turned on the all time favorite Animal Planet. Cute cubs were following their mom on the trail to food...the catch was successful..stomachs got full…resting time for tired mom n play-time i.e. the entertainment time for the cubs…how nice it was to see them play, entertaining themselves…the commentary was on, “ this play, fake fights are nothing but training for future serious fights!” I called it playtime for the cubs but it was training actually. My mind started to search in its pool of memory if it can fix what is called as ‘entertainment’ for any kind of animal… dance of a peacock- hell no, it’s not entertainment for the dancer, it’s an effort with best foot forward to win heart of a female… flight of a kite? ..it’s not flight for leisure- it is a hunt for food….butterflies on scented flowers?...they are definitely not there merely to dance n enjoy the brilliant colors n to smell the sweet scent… does all this means animals don’t need entertainment? Or is it also applicable to us? We need rest for sure but do we really need entertainment? Are we mistaking entertainment as our rest? Entertainment, which does not train our minds or bodies… which has no purpose to serve but only helps us to kill some time with making our minds blind to the surroundings, can’t be a part of a human’s natural life. I think it’s time I should take my modes of entertainment seriously. Having right type of entertainment will open the path of successful life to me like to the cubs.