Monday, June 20, 2016

Lets go for a walk, Dr. Rajan


Into 70th year of counting rain drops at the window to notes of Premam; raindrops, Sai Pallavi and Nivin Pauly sing me into a happiness; morning commenced with a few, countable rain drops; they braided into strings proving the string theory of physicists; at 12, as Anupama Chandrasekharan and Pallavi verse Alluvapuzhayude theerathu..., mused... is there a woman or a man who has not romanced under a roof of raindrops, however much Adi Sankara may dub it all as Mithya, Maya. Deep in the distance, rain drops beaded from far away hills, sprinted over creeks, slushed mangroves before landing on the window, sofa ... squatting in rows on the grill as if on school benches.... With it comes fryums offered by Rama; given to her by friend Mala after a trip to Pazhani ...murukku, cheedai and then it was the turn of son Ganesh; orange burfi and dalmut from Nagpur Haldiram's, a foodie business, now split. Everyone should be having a rain story as in dear old India it clouds, it winds, it rains.. may have lost the time-table...yet there. Decided to make filter coffee for Rama, rain gift to her as she is into Malayalam film music on youtube. 'Yes,' she delights and from the kitchen window watch rain drops drenching gul mohur flowers in a passion...the coffee has come out strong when the mobile calls....Shreya and Chiyu together announcing a school holiday and a rain dance at the society...it is not as if the school is shut, they have taken a day off much to the chagrin of Dakhi. Sufficient reason to set out for a rain walk with Haldiram orange burfi neatly packed in a cloth bag...down Link Road, LIC Colony, IC Church, quiet and empty before landing at Mandapeshwar Co-op. Society.. played football with Shreya, Chiyu and their friends. Walking back home, thought of the times when me wet-walked Marine Drive for hours....maybe, Dr. Raghuram Govind Rajan can today relax and watch from his 18th floor office, rain drops on RBI Towers...maybe he could go for a quiet walk by the Sea .. will miss you Sir...do not know you, never met you, would like to go for a walk with you... promise, will not talk banking (not in anyway qualified to talk banking with you Sir), of books, food, sports ..sharing vada pavs for fun. At home, wet with Rajan regrets.

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