It’s a cold December night. Others would argue it’s pleasant but I’d say cold. It’s a little late, most shops have pulled down their shutters. Riding the breeze, piercing the otherwise silent night, most out of place at this late hour is Himmesh Reshamiya, crooning Tera sarafa kaisa hai hum dum . The street ahead is pretty deserted. I can’t see where this music, if you can call it that, comes from. It’s way too loud to be a radio playing somewhere or even to be the music at a bar. There’s probably a party somewhere. But it’s still 3 days to Ring out the old, ring in the new.
I turn a corner and I can see bright lights and a small crowd. But it’s not a party. Goodness gracious me! Blistering barnacles! Heavens above! God’s nightgown! That can’t be true. There is a Santa Claus jiving to Himesh Bhai’s nasal notes!! A shiny banner above screams ‘Merry Christmas’! (And btw it’s almost four days past X’mas) Right above the banner a board proudly announces ‘Radhe sweets’, in Devanagri. Wow! They take secularism, or mixed bag, or khichadi if you may, to another level. A closer look reveals the presence of a perfectly idiotic looking clown on the stage, as well. His face is painted an ugly pale pink with the quintessential red clown’s nose. Some little kids have climbed onto the stage and they are bobbing up and down, without any sense of rhythm or direction whatsoever, while their proud and grinning parents look on and cheer. I don’t know if I’m flabbergasted or amazed or amused or about to crack up.
But there’s something that makes me smile. It’s not Christmas and it’s not New Years. The music isn’t a Christmas carol. The Santa has a white beard, brown skin and black eyebrows. The clown is dancing with the Santa for no apparent rhyme or reason. And the kids are just happy doing their own Brownian motion. Any dream will do. We just need an excuse to celebrate.
As i walk away I hear a Punjabi song blaring from the speakers. As if the pot pourri wasn’t enough of a patchwork already. Jee karda bhai jee karda tainu kol bithawa jee karda. It won’t be a surprise if India invents a girlfriend for Santa next! (Maybe Karina) And maybe Santa and his girl would do a Raas Leela outside Radhe Sweets then. Gujju Khichadi!
7 comments:
ok...... nice one..... But can u plz help me out here.....Wht interested you abt this incident that made you write this post......
I do not know why (and this is not AT ALL derogatory), I find that all the female authors I have read (the amateur ones :p) write in the same fashion. They notice similar things, like common stuff, are interested by predictable events, and heck, sometimes even their style seems similar. It's strange because I find a certain variety in the way the other half of humanity picks its subjects.
But then again, I am generalizing, something I usually refrain from doing. So it is very likely that I have not read much. So.
Hmmm. Nicely written as usual. I say as usual because you haven't still come up with a bad post.
But then, you haven't been here long. Heh.
It's an interesting topic. In a tedha way, it reminded me of my own last post. We really accept, assimilate, digest everything, don't we? Khichadi indeed!
@ mickey: hey there. welcome hither. if u found it to be a nice post, i dont see the point of ur question. the second last para explaans what i found interesting.
@ marvin: umm. ur comment at first did look derogatory but then i decided to take ur word. so if wht u say really is true then maybe the fairer sex is just wired that way. maybe there are certain things that strike us. as for the other half of humanity they get amused by any and every thing. lol. jokes aside, i dont think my posts have similar topics. ya maybe more than story telling i end up writing bout how things i observed made me feel. n do tell me who the other girls who write like me are.. ill read them.
@ piper: :)
@Zinque: Point taken, I agree that sometimes we came across somethings that attracts our interest and we can't resist ourselves from sharing it with others........... Keep posting.....
You did not get me I suppose. So I guess more harm has been done than expected. YOUR topics are VARIED. But the VARIETY seems common. Won't you agree? And didn't you notice the disclaimer at the end?
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@ marvin: ya i got what you meant. maybe i havent read too many female writers to second that though. interesting possibility though. may help u discover what makes women tick ;)
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