My Experiments with Time

It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey..   Our journey of a five hundred miles was about to begin, from the Western coast to the Eastern. Less than six months ago, we had travelled on the opposite route from Chennai to Nileswar. Our little champ was all too excited to hit the road again. Not that she relished the road journey, just that she was more prepared for the extended siesta this time around. As the rest of the family woke up early to see us off, the 6-year-old descended in her comfy palazzos carrying her Barbie, pillow and blanket. "We should have bought the XUV 700," she commented casually, leaving us parents dumbfounded. As we bid adieu and slowly rolled out onto the highway, the sun was beginning its ascent. It was a cool August day, so we kept the windows down allowing the cool breeze in. As we passed the Karyamkod river, the still green water surrounded by coconut trees offered a magnificent sight. Taking advantage of the lean traffic in...

It was a breezy Sunday morning in July. The monsoon must have pitied us poor human beings and decided to stay on for a while. The rains had just stopped; and the sun seemed to be unsure if it should make its presence felt. The magnificent panaroma of lush green trees adorned with droplets of water against the clear blue sky was soul soothing.  A dozen or more coconut trees spread across the stretch of land with plantains- in-between barely allowed a view of the neighbour's house. To my right were a pair of large mango trees, water drooping from its leaves. Our backyard was filled with a mix of jackfruit and coconut trees. It was no dream, I was in God's own country! It's been five months since I moved in, and this blog is long overdue. It was a hard choice to move from the bustling city of Chennai, which I call my hometown to Pallikara, a beautiful town beside the sparkling green Thejaswini river. But Covid, with its updated versions being released faster than Samsung and A...

I came across this Latin word recently, the meaning sounds quite interesting. It means a clean slate, just like the human mind at birth that is devoid of any preconceived notions and ideas. This word seems so relevant during current times. Until a year ago, we all had plans about our lives, including career, travel, entertainment and so on. But for the past one year, there has been so much of uncertainty that I wonder and fear if we will have to reimagine all our plans from scratch. For a year we had been postponing plans, but now things look quite bleak again. There has been so much of unprecedented changes around us, in the way we work, in our education system, and most importantly in the way we interact and connect with each other. Everything is so virtual, that virtual is almost real these days. Recently my six-and-half-yr-old daughter (she insists I mention it that way) casually commented ' I don't think Corona is ever going to leave us. We are going to live with it. '...