Ek do harf yun hi likh ke mita dena tha
Zahan Maa’oof bhi rahatha hai bataa dena tha
-Zaahir Gaazipuri
You know what they say about accepting the things you can’t change and changing the things you can? I am usually very sorted out about it. Most things, apart from morning coffee crises, fall into the not-mine-to-change category and as a result of this I manage a
I am overwhelmed by a feeling that the world is falling apart bit by gigabyte and my resolute non-involvement is anti-dharma. I - so sure that I had not an activisty bone in me - am alarmed by this unseasoned agitation of spirit. Since natural good sense does not seem to be doing its trick, I am going to attempt a little bit of systematic logic here. What are the issues at hand? Lists always help.
- We don’t have rains. The Karimnagar guys came and married two frogs at the municipal office. I don’t think they achieved anything apart from a tiny wrench in my heart. But what can one do for rains? Tried our little patch of conservation and harvesting (sort of!); what else? They say and I believe that larger issues are involved here, which are even more horrible to contemplate...
- We don’t have too much electricity or petrol for that matter and what we do have is horrendously expensive. The CM appears to be panicking and I am panicking with him
- The central government which is trying to get us some alternate energy looks like it may fall. I was ambivalent about this deal (not knowing too much about it), but now I think – someone determined to do something about something is better than nobody doing anything about anything.
- We have a HUGE garbage problem in our colony. Ours is the only garbage bin in about ten colonies and the cantonment does not have disposal trucks. We discuss the problem over breakfast every morning. I have no ideas.
- I have indigestion.
- They have taken away a bunch of children from Jubillee Hills by raiding homes where they had been employed. Is this wise? What is this transit home anyway? What about their families? I seriously doubt that the follow-up action is going to be all that it should. I am worried and I am only piping up in this ineffectual way on this blog.
- A news anchor was pretty bitchy to Katrina Kaif. She is a good kid and does not deserve it. Everybody is talking about the news. The news is that news is news. They should not be allowed to use reactions to their horridness as news. I hate this meta meta post-modern world.
- All the Hyderabadi autowalas are sad. They are especially disgruntled around Persis Takeaway. All that animosity for the consuming public ruins the taste of Biryani.
- Avva is feebler by the day. She found it difficult to sit down on the side-walk outside our house today. She said she hadn’t come for the past few days because of the pain in her back. She must be around ninety and I fear for the circumstances of her death and those of my life.
I am not at all sure what this list has achieved. I am not feeling lighter, just groggier. I also think this post should probably have a content warning. My sister will probably say that I should not be harassing the general public with depressing material.
But what this post will get instead is a disclaimer.
- The author is not responsible for any communication of ‘the blues’. Neo-Delhites in particular can wave away most material as not pertaining to them.
