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Alok K.

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The blue shadows

I am walking with many people on a road, that leads to nowhere. Suddenly I have a feeling that I am being followed by no one. I look back. There is no one there. I get a feeling that nobody's leading me either. I look straight again.
Sheer cipher. Nobody.
I am walking alone. Everything has disappeared.
I realise that I am walking on a thin but straight thread, and am amused by the perfect balance that I have been maintaining.
But no more. Now I am feeling dizzy. The Acrophobia grips me. I look down. There is a vast stretch of nothingness. I try to keep walking, and raise my left step very carefully. I am trying not to loose my balance.
I touch the thread with my raised foot. To find a base, to move forward.
But as soon as I touch it, darkness creeps in. I can not see anything. The thread, the vast nothingness, the balance... all gone. I stand still.
A cold fear. A raw admonition. A dark hunch.

And then blue shadows spread all around, bringing into life blue lights out of nowhere. And the whole space goes blue. Blue walls, blue floors, blue hopes.
And darkness blues off my heart, spreading a mystical ambiance outside, and inside.

3 long years of having blogged.

17 Aug 2007: Happy after Such a Long Time.
17 Aug 2010: 3 Long Years of having Blogged.

Lol. Sorry people, for having eaten your minds this long. But your brains have been delicious, lemme tell you. :D
And the thing that matters the most is that I am all the more hungry these days. For proof, see the statistics on the right. :)

Alok K.
17 August, 2010

Drenched wet.

Got drenched after many days. The class had just ended, I had this bagful of my training documents and certificates, and no bicycle.

Friends were waiting at the exit steps for the rain to stop. I looked at the sky. The lovely raindrops were falling so blissfully over everything exposed. I did not want them to stop.  I wanted to get their blessings too.
 If only I could do something about my bag...

I turned back, went to the fifth year studio, and shoved my bag and the internship documents in an empty drawer.

And leaving the people waiting at the steps, I came out.
Out into the rains.

My two year old shreeleather sandals have been torn apart at the mid soles already, creating a wide gap between the front portion of the sole and the back portion. I dont replace them not because I don't have money, but partially because I can't find time to go to any good footwear shop and partially because I love the time worn grooves in the sandals which totally fit the ergonomics of my feet.

Today, while walking in the rain from the department to Azad, I felt the raindrops on my face. And  the raindrops on the earth through the holed soles. Sky was not to disappoint me today.

I was having a sore throat since two days, and the tonsils were reminding of their presence since today morning.

And then getting wet in the rain. I feel alive again.

Alok K.
Aug 12, 2010

Interesting Indian Idioms and phrases (Folk) -1

Recently I stumbled upon a website that had a collection of bhojpuri idioms. I thoroughly enjoyed them, and wish to share some of them on this blog of mine. ( Of course, with my personal insights. :) )

1. जेतना के मुन्ना ना ओतना के झुनझुना।

This one is my favorite, and is pretty easy to understand and use. It basically mocks the complex paraphernalia attached to a relatively simpler core element. :D Funny one.

2. पइसा ना कौड़ी, बीच बाजार में दौड़ा-दौड़ी।

 This particular phrase always comes to my mind whenever I run short of money while roaming in a marketplace. :) But that's the superficial part of it. On analyzing a little more, I feel that it mocks anyone who is trying to do something which he just cannot afford to, and hence the end result would be futile, no matter what.

3. नीम हकीम खतरे  जान, भीतर गोली बाहर प्रान।
While I had heard the first part of this idiom many times before, I was surely missing the punch of this one. "Bheetar Goli baahar Praan." Superficially it shows the fear of a person who does not believe in medicines. Going slightly deeper, it shows unjustified fear from new things, and telling people that its better to continue living like they were doing before. Of course I don't agree to it, but that doesn't lessen the fun anyways. :D

4.खाए के मन ना नौ गो बहाना।
Hehe... No explanations. Love the sheer rawness of it.

5.अभागा गइले ससुरार, तहँवो मांड़े-भात।
:D Shows the plight of an unfortunate who got the worst even when he ought to get the best. "maand-bhat" remains a very basic meal, and it has been used to show the low return from a seemingly very fortunate occasion. Of course on normal days, a son in law would never be offered Rice with rice water in his in-laws' place...

Will share some more pearls like these in the days to come. Keep visiting the blog. :D
Alok K.