dew respect
we are warming up to the thaw in the weather. as winter passes by, let us bid goodbye to it with dew respect. it's the lovliest season in chennai. with bountiful harvest and a plethora of festivals - christmas, new year, pongal, holi, the expression winter of discontent has no place here. the festivities ensure warmth and harness a sense of forgive and forget leading to a time of defreeze in relationships. well, well, the spurt in prices may chill us out, yet the ambience is of cheer and chin up. for many, winter solstice is an excellent time for spiritual connect. year after year, people gather at stonehenge and year after year come out with new theories on the structures.
the season is associated with grapes. but for some they are sour grapes. not ratewise. their constitution would not agree with the taste. but no need to crush them in cold-blood. they can give them a cold-shoulder and turn to apples - now u have desi as well as foreign ones - australian, washington et al. but remember not always is the axiom an apple a day keeps the doctor away. reports are rife that unscrupulous traders apply wax to impart shine to the fruit which upsets your health applecart. just scratch the surface (when the trader is not observing) and your fingernail waxes eloquently.
wonderful to watch children (and their young mothers!) going to school in colourful sweaters and monkey caps. the days being shorter, mothers will have some respite on the gastronomic front.
of course, there is the flip side. for eg, the sole cracks. many ointments to heal the heel. often u see people with legs in a bucket of warm dettol water to cleanse the soles. poor souls. if u happen to visit them during that vulnerable time, it may be a feat for them to jump to their feet to fete you. so don't stand on protocol. just blame it on their Achilles heel.
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Winter for me always had a special warmth to it. Even though from a state where seasons are not particularly distinguishable, it is for me a revisit to my childhood. The winter cold brings with it a thaw in relationships and melts frowns. The "flip side" as you put it sir often got covered by the snow that we saw on the many christmas cards. Now, in Chennai, it is our consolation prize for surviving each summer.
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha ha. You pulled off a fairly decent piece from such a cheap laugh! Despite your weakness for puns and word games where the rhythm, spelling and sound of the word is more likely to decide with was to come than the ideas themselves, some images and scenes come alive. What an arava conception of seasons you internalised! It is only a writer's powers of observation which could have penned a tribute to something I completly failed to notice was going on until your post reminded me of.
ReplyDeleteThansks.
(The cheap laugh I referred to was my own, not the author's, fellow readers, please note!)
cheap laugh? i always thought a frown cheap and laugh very pricey. weakness for puns. it is actually a strengthna?
ReplyDeleteI readily agree..........
ReplyDeleteThis time the chill was a little tricky. Left quite a few in Chennai with throat infection. We now get apples from the US, Australia, New Zeland, Mexico, South Africa and China. But to me, our own Shimla apples are the sweetest, followed probably by the ones from New Zeland. China ranks the last! And no efforts are made to wax our apples. So safe bet there.
ReplyDeleteWell, I think you should put the children in paranthesis since the subject in the paranthesis seems to interest you more!
Cheers
yes MRS? http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/07/stories/2009070758850400.htm
ReplyDeletevisit this and u know the waxed apples.
the wax on imported apples will be safe if u brush them off or wash. but local traders are applying candle wax to the apples which is very dangerous