Fighting the virus
The pager rings and that concludes my break.
The clock ticks mockingly as I leave to fight; to fight
the tenacious virus that the world can’t seem to shake.
The pager rings and that concludes my break.
The clock ticks mockingly as I leave to fight; to fight
the tenacious virus that the world can’t seem to shake.
“Here is the gift you asked for. It is an invaluable gift that you need to cherish for the rest of your life. ”
“I informed Lee about the plan change. After all, it was just a see-you-later, not a goodbye. With her, it always is”.
Undoubtedly, a scepter – a scepter of communism. This was going to rule the world. This would break all the chains that bound mankind. The scepter was designed to nourish the people with goodness.
She will always speak in my favor. “You are now in a town where religious practices and culture are strictly adhered to. This is how they will be there. We cannot change them. We don’t have to change for them either”. My mother’s advice is to adjust all this for a short time.
Good things end so quickly, in fleeting moments but bad things don’t.
Have you ever seen any of the older women in your family taking time for themselves? At the least a little time to relax? To take some deep breaths? Or buy things for themselves without letting you know? Have you?
Solo travel is not really easy. Even though we travel alone, there are still many people behind the scenes, before and after the trip. Some send us. Some welcome us.
March 29, 2017.Dear Journal, If you haven’t read the previous journal entry, here is a quick summary of what happened till lunch. I had taken…
Then we went to a church which was a fusion of Hindu and Christian look. It had Gopurams of a Hindu temple and a very traditionally Christian cross. It signified the unison of religions, we later found.
The saying “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation” by Brigham Young would be the right…
Madras Central Railway Station. The movie reel box had arrived from Bombay by train. Thousands of people crowded the busy Wall Tax road through which the reel box was taken to Kinema Central- where the movie was to be screened. People all along the roads showered flowers, broke open coconuts on the roads, showed ‘arti’ and burnt incense sticks, welcoming the reel. “Watch for yourselves, the first talkie featuring your favorite star TP Rajalakshmi dance and sing in Tamil and Telugu” screamed the posters all along and “The famous drama artiste TP Rajalakshmi for the first time in a talking cinema”, announced loudspeakers in cars and automobiles. The first talkie of Tamil Cinema, Kalidas, rested squarely on the tender shoulders of a girl, who was barely 20, married at 7 and divorced at 11!
Hannah Ratnam Krishnama @ Kamala Sathianathan Nivedita Louis 1898… Senate House, Madras University. The Graduation Ceremony is underway. The names are called out and students…