Two articles appearing in TOI just two days apart.
As if women were not confused already!
The Horned owl
13 years ago
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Blur!
Zed frantically paces through the automated gate and rushes down the flight of stairs only to find the tube vanishing past him in a blur. The platform looks deserted now. The overhead display flashes' HEATHROW 3 MINS'. Soon, people start swarming in from all the inlets. Zed boards the next tube along with other nameless, faceless passengers united only by their destination. As the tube picks speed, the outside becomes a motley of signages, posters and graffiti which eventually turn into a haze.
Leaning against the window, Zed watches the innards of the subway system. He starts thinking about his near and dear ones. No longer 'near' actually as he has not met them in years. Their faces have been reduced to faint impressions in his mind.
The tube stops at every station to be fed with more people. Its hunger seems insatiable.
Its time to get off and head back home.
Zed walks out of the air-conditioned surrounds into the open air. the dampness in the air condensed on his glasses making everything around look hazy. He wipes his specs and puts them back on. The world before him appears clearer. It is not so blurry after all.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Exploring Laziness
This title comes straight out of the Times Sunday Magazine and I'm sure the author who penned this article must have been very busy(writing and re-writing it of course). This title instead belongs to me because I've really explored laziness today.
It's a cold and foggy Sunday and I have not left my pad as yet and don't intend to do so either(a natural outcome of laziness). I don't know what the MET Department predicted for today but I am sure it would be -'bright and sunny'. These guys always manage to live up to their reputation.
Anyway my day begins with my cellphone alarm ringing and I manage to put it back to sleep. And I go back to sleep as well. No point getting up when there is nothing to do. And when I finally do get up out of boredom I am left undecided whether it is time for breakfast or should I wait for lunch instead. Even on a lazy Sunday, I have such important decisions to make.
I move out to my balcony and I am confronted by a dense fog which refuses to go away, a sun which refuses to show up and bitter cold which refuses to ease up. I tell myself- this laziness has crept into the weather as well OR on a second thought-has it crept into me!
I open up my e-mail accounts and social-networking sites. Nothing to be found ........WAIT......... my inbox has a new message. My friend has urged me to start blogging and I soon realize there won't be a better day to do it. So here I am in front of my laptop typing alphabets into the keyboard in the hope that these letters arrange themselves up into a comprehensible blog.
And what next.
Well..... another lazy day and and my lazy fingers typing into the keyboard to come up with another blog in the hope that some lazy folks wake up and read it.
Snooze.......
It's a cold and foggy Sunday and I have not left my pad as yet and don't intend to do so either(a natural outcome of laziness). I don't know what the MET Department predicted for today but I am sure it would be -'bright and sunny'. These guys always manage to live up to their reputation.
Anyway my day begins with my cellphone alarm ringing and I manage to put it back to sleep. And I go back to sleep as well. No point getting up when there is nothing to do. And when I finally do get up out of boredom I am left undecided whether it is time for breakfast or should I wait for lunch instead. Even on a lazy Sunday, I have such important decisions to make.
I move out to my balcony and I am confronted by a dense fog which refuses to go away, a sun which refuses to show up and bitter cold which refuses to ease up. I tell myself- this laziness has crept into the weather as well OR on a second thought-has it crept into me!
I open up my e-mail accounts and social-networking sites. Nothing to be found ........WAIT......... my inbox has a new message. My friend has urged me to start blogging and I soon realize there won't be a better day to do it. So here I am in front of my laptop typing alphabets into the keyboard in the hope that these letters arrange themselves up into a comprehensible blog.
And what next.
Well..... another lazy day and and my lazy fingers typing into the keyboard to come up with another blog in the hope that some lazy folks wake up and read it.
Snooze.......
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