Outside the window a wind shifts the skies as me thought of a rat extinct in Australia. None candled its last scurry into nothingness. None amened. Thanks be to social media for a decent burial. On Link Road, skies have no clouds. Late, say Indian Meteorological Department and Vinson Kurien of Business Line. When, me does not know but Kalidas wrote a Ritusamhara on two lovers cuddling many seasons when seasons were on time as Mumbai locals. There were droughts then when India was a forest; there are droughts today, when India is not a forest, Prakash Javadekar could well exclaim, ribbon-cutting the chopping of a peepal to widen a highway. 'Edavavum illa, pathiyum illa,' mumbles Sethumadhavan of June rains. Edavam is a monsoon month in Kerala. 'Kute pan paus nahin,' remarked old Desai into his 75th year of rains. Last of apus at Niranjan's vegetable corner; two mangos hang from a tree on Shree Adinath Marg, scared to drop, sure something has gone wrong. And on June 16 on Link Road, everyone is sweaty. No Sun and Popy umbrellas, no raincoats, no rubber boots...shops and shopkeepers wait, a no sale every second making an NPA of them....Will there be a move out from Mumbai .... like farmers editing out of Marathwada .....a positive sign or sigh -- Sensex up as SBI becomes one of a 50 big banks in the world ... and a civil aviation policy which me does not understand as no plane ever takes off on time anywhere in India. Lingers, the Australian rat... on a clothes line ... reports Australian media: 'An Australian rodent may have become the first victim of extinction as a result of human-caused climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys or mosaic tailed rat at a small reef island at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, called Bramble Cay, appear to have disappeared.' At Vazira, Lord Ganesha in tears as he will now have to walk. He rode all rats, no distinctions of colour, caste, creed ....had no problem with any of them. In 1994, Lord Ganesh drank milk in Chennai. If the rat feels let down by the Lord, the Creator, there is none surviving to say so. And the destroyer Lord Shiva, will one day, have no Ganges on his head; India could be without Ganges or at least lose a fine imagery. So on June 16, Humans became Gods. Lord Ganesh is out. Shiva is out. A low laying cay inundated by a rising sea has dunked them all, gods and rats. Humans will pray and play at mirrors.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Bramble Cay
Outside the window a wind shifts the skies as me thought of a rat extinct in Australia. None candled its last scurry into nothingness. None amened. Thanks be to social media for a decent burial. On Link Road, skies have no clouds. Late, say Indian Meteorological Department and Vinson Kurien of Business Line. When, me does not know but Kalidas wrote a Ritusamhara on two lovers cuddling many seasons when seasons were on time as Mumbai locals. There were droughts then when India was a forest; there are droughts today, when India is not a forest, Prakash Javadekar could well exclaim, ribbon-cutting the chopping of a peepal to widen a highway. 'Edavavum illa, pathiyum illa,' mumbles Sethumadhavan of June rains. Edavam is a monsoon month in Kerala. 'Kute pan paus nahin,' remarked old Desai into his 75th year of rains. Last of apus at Niranjan's vegetable corner; two mangos hang from a tree on Shree Adinath Marg, scared to drop, sure something has gone wrong. And on June 16 on Link Road, everyone is sweaty. No Sun and Popy umbrellas, no raincoats, no rubber boots...shops and shopkeepers wait, a no sale every second making an NPA of them....Will there be a move out from Mumbai .... like farmers editing out of Marathwada .....a positive sign or sigh -- Sensex up as SBI becomes one of a 50 big banks in the world ... and a civil aviation policy which me does not understand as no plane ever takes off on time anywhere in India. Lingers, the Australian rat... on a clothes line ... reports Australian media: 'An Australian rodent may have become the first victim of extinction as a result of human-caused climate change. The Bramble Cay melomys or mosaic tailed rat at a small reef island at the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, called Bramble Cay, appear to have disappeared.' At Vazira, Lord Ganesha in tears as he will now have to walk. He rode all rats, no distinctions of colour, caste, creed ....had no problem with any of them. In 1994, Lord Ganesh drank milk in Chennai. If the rat feels let down by the Lord, the Creator, there is none surviving to say so. And the destroyer Lord Shiva, will one day, have no Ganges on his head; India could be without Ganges or at least lose a fine imagery. So on June 16, Humans became Gods. Lord Ganesh is out. Shiva is out. A low laying cay inundated by a rising sea has dunked them all, gods and rats. Humans will pray and play at mirrors.
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