The koel is symbolic of one who does not have any loyalties with anybody and is supposedly cunning (lazy also: keeps her eggs in another birds nest till it hatches, ptsssh! Cant even do its own motherly job.)

Michele is a koel. The worst of the lot. All she can do is coo to other people and then coo to herself.

her loud voice

resounding in the narrow corridor

the tables whispered

'she will be missed'

'she will be missed'

Money - the easiest key to God?

I was in Calcutta recently with two friends of mine for a month long internship which unfortunately (or fortunately) did not go well. On our last day in the city, we decided to go to the temple of Godess Kali. We had been warned before-hand by people about the pestering nature of the pundits there. When we got there, we realised the torturous nature of these pundits, who follow you a long distance and pester you to pay them money, so that you get a faster and a short-cut access to God. What began as sanctity has now turned into a full fledged business where you pay money to see God. And if you wonder what happens to the people who don't pay, well they have to stand in this unbelievably long and slow moving queue to get a glimpse of God, they have traveled so far to see. And how long do they get to see the idol, well not more than two fleeting seconds. Even in those two seconds the pundits do not let you go unless you have given some money.
Now, what about those who pay money and enter the temple directly? Well, they get to stay longer, that is precisely five minutes and they perform the special aarti which holds up the pathetically slow moving traffic of worshippers (non-payers).
Why has worshipping or praying become such a business? This is not the case with only this temple. In my last trip to Rajasthan, I visited the temple of Lord Krishna, and the situation there was even worse. What happens to all the money which they have collected? Clearly, it does not go into the well keeping of the temple because, I feel really sad to note that the temple of Goddess Kali was ill-kept. When it is said in all the religious texts that God does not look upon his followers different from each other, why do we create this difference? Why create the class difference in worshippers as payers and non-payers or as they term it V.I.P worshippers or the regulars?

A tag tag!!!

T for...

Tango: A dance form
Thirst: Want of something, gen; water
Time Table: the awfully planned exam time tables which does NOT motivate me to study
Tricks: my friend plays a lot of them, I was a victim of one.
Turly: my favourite stuff toy, now tossed aside
Taare Zameen Par: one of the nicest movies i'v watched
Tears: an outlet for emotions
Tidy: which is not how my room is
Thief: a robber - ???
Truth: which is not a lie
Tubelight: a synonym for one who is slow at thinking or rather reacting
Tigger: the tiger in Winnie the pooh!
THE: 'the' word with which many of our sentences begin
Tea: i drink everyday
Team: a group of people working together - wonder how????
Teen: an excuse for being flimsy
Taste: my grandfather lost it in his old age and we got used to eating extremely spicy and salty food.
Trust: the easiest thing to lose in this world
Trim: i just got my hair trim'med
Tell tale: one who lies
Twix: my favourite chocolate
Tinkle: my favourite comic, a life saver during exams!
Telephone: the worlds most over-used mode of communication
Table: was discussing with my cousin the philosophy behind calling a table a table, the tableness of a table... (umm... he left before he could clear my confusion about why exactly is a table called a table?)
Tomato basil soup: craving for it
Turkey bath towels: aren't they famous???
Thank you.

There is something special about the way those eyes stare into barrenness. They think about something, which you don’t know about, which you want to know, but they don’t want to reveal it to you! I peer into them, to find out the truth, but they shy away from me! Or am I being less inquisitive and not trying to know what those eyes are trying to show to me through silence???