Tsering Wangmo Dhompa in A Home in Tibet writes: '... a story does not have to make sense.' Me bloggings make no sense. But me blogs like prayers without faith. Dhompa writes of fear, the Mao ghost fearing her land; in me country, a mooing fright of the Holy Cow. Every time a Holy Cow walks by, Old Man is frighted into stillness; Lady, cold under a May sun. Do not know how Old Man and Lady walked into me head but they are there always, particularly when me walks the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), colony; Old Man and Lady are LIC insured but not against the Holy Cow. A silence on LIC Road as none wants to talk of them; the two have no autobiographies nor even proper biographies with references. They have been banned. All know them; refuse to say Hai, afraid of the Holy Cow. In a sense, they are weird; are they married? none knows; some know but wont talk. They have been around much before the IC Church was built and LIC Road laid; that could mean a 100 years old. That cant be. At one time, they were part of the script, the show; they never went to any god; they seeded trees, looked after nests and these days are into supplying mobiles to bats (flying fox on rain trees), magpie robins, crows, warblers; 'Pagal', mooed the Holy Cow and they were dropped from the LIC crowd; unsure of the Holy Cow, they send out mobiles by Tarzan in the nights when Holy Cow snores; an unknown friend keeps Tarzan open midnight. When the Holy Cow outs to graze, they are on mobiles, finish their chat before the Holy Cow romps in. They are numb. They dont read newspapers; Old Man is backing Pune, Lady Mumbai. Alarmed. They want to get at the victor and loser. Call up Shreya midnight and Shreya obliges. She knows them, shares sandwiches made by mother, Dakhi. Shreya is 13 years old. Wrote of them in a school essay, teacher failed her. 'Don't go near the Old Man and Lady. They are dangerous,' said the school teacher. The school had got an order from The Holy Cow. Order read: Holy CowNama must.They sit together under the banyan on Karuna Road; do not talk, sure of being tapped by the Hold Cow. They dont want to die; Holy Cow wants them to die. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa made her way to US. Old Man and the Lady, without passports, have LIC Colony.
Friday, May 19, 2017
Holy Cow
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa in A Home in Tibet writes: '... a story does not have to make sense.' Me bloggings make no sense. But me blogs like prayers without faith. Dhompa writes of fear, the Mao ghost fearing her land; in me country, a mooing fright of the Holy Cow. Every time a Holy Cow walks by, Old Man is frighted into stillness; Lady, cold under a May sun. Do not know how Old Man and Lady walked into me head but they are there always, particularly when me walks the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), colony; Old Man and Lady are LIC insured but not against the Holy Cow. A silence on LIC Road as none wants to talk of them; the two have no autobiographies nor even proper biographies with references. They have been banned. All know them; refuse to say Hai, afraid of the Holy Cow. In a sense, they are weird; are they married? none knows; some know but wont talk. They have been around much before the IC Church was built and LIC Road laid; that could mean a 100 years old. That cant be. At one time, they were part of the script, the show; they never went to any god; they seeded trees, looked after nests and these days are into supplying mobiles to bats (flying fox on rain trees), magpie robins, crows, warblers; 'Pagal', mooed the Holy Cow and they were dropped from the LIC crowd; unsure of the Holy Cow, they send out mobiles by Tarzan in the nights when Holy Cow snores; an unknown friend keeps Tarzan open midnight. When the Holy Cow outs to graze, they are on mobiles, finish their chat before the Holy Cow romps in. They are numb. They dont read newspapers; Old Man is backing Pune, Lady Mumbai. Alarmed. They want to get at the victor and loser. Call up Shreya midnight and Shreya obliges. She knows them, shares sandwiches made by mother, Dakhi. Shreya is 13 years old. Wrote of them in a school essay, teacher failed her. 'Don't go near the Old Man and Lady. They are dangerous,' said the school teacher. The school had got an order from The Holy Cow. Order read: Holy CowNama must.They sit together under the banyan on Karuna Road; do not talk, sure of being tapped by the Hold Cow. They dont want to die; Holy Cow wants them to die. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa made her way to US. Old Man and the Lady, without passports, have LIC Colony.
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