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Summer vacation, is silently tiptoeing away while I am still letting the feeling of vacation sink in. And suddenly now, I can feel the daily madness rushing towards me with an alarming speed. Just a few days more and there it will be - the yes madam and no madam, the checkings, the results, the successes and the failures. Amidst it all a continuous balancing effort between the bright and dull students and friendly and not too friendly colleagues. Am I rejuvenated? Can’t say. The emptiness brings its own heaviness. Am I looking forward to school? Maybe yes. Then I would not get much time to waste over matters inconsequential.
I caught up with reading and realized that India is the flavour of the day . Vir Sanghvi in the Counterpoint writes that it’s a good time to be an Indian and hope that we don’t screw it up again. It’s a pity that even a journalist of his stature judges his own self with the foreign glasses. For me it is always good to be an Indian. And I share my hopes and aspirations for this great land with the dreamy eyed Shashi Tharoor - India’s nominee for the post of UN Secretary General. I pray that he does get elected to the coveted post.
Vipin has tagged me. Thanks Vipin…my very existence seems weird but I will try to list the notable weird things. So here it goes…
Smile
Enjoying a literary piece while teaching I start smiling to myself oblivious to the existence of others. That smile attracts many a laughter in the class.
New Recipe
The first time I try a recipe it goes very well. But Alas! Never ever again. As happened with Rava Idlis - The White Dumplings (as one of my Czech friends married to a South Indian calls them).
Saree
When most of my colleagues and friends prefer to wear the easiest Indian attire the Salwar Kameez I prefer the whole six yards inviting some mixed remarks.
Beggars
Since I hate beggars I refuse to even look at them. So one day A beggar complained “ Yeh to dekhti bhi nahi hai…paise kya degi.”, which sent Dove and me into loads of laughter.
Hindi
Always in love with Hindi, sometimes I switch to such a chaste Hindi that my students get bewildered. So now they have to consult the Hindi to English dictionary.
Tears
There’s a flip side to smile weirdness. I leave this to the imagination of the readers because it’s too weird to describe.
I resolved to live by this great quote when I enter my classroom this session: "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly"...Buckminister Fuller