Spit Wide Open

Early Morning Puja :

Now a days, I wake up at 4:45 AM before the sunrise when it's still dark outside. I am outside my room tying my shoelaces. You please believe it takes a lot of courage to get up so early and run. Early because you want to avoid pollution and traffic. It was a calm morning until I heard little disturbance in morning breeze. I bent down from my 2nd floor's boundary wall and saw, down there a branch at neighbor’s gate shaking.The street light was there so I could clearly see everything. Suddenly from behind this flowery branch a woman, in early morning jogger’s getup, appeared fully. I don’t think she was aware of now being watched red handed plucking(stealing) red flowers, but my footstep sound did alert her. To scare her I clapped twice (clap clap) loudly and she started walking super-fast as you runaway after lighting the  wick of a fire cracker, for sure she got frightened. As a scarecrow I got surprised and amused seeing this woman running in her early 60s after her pre-dawn flower raids. And just between you and me I saw her face and know where she lives in Geetanjali layout.So what do such people(ladies) do with flowers, they either wear them in their hair or offer them to their beloved gods. Imagine this women preparing garlands of these stolen flowers, offering them in her morning worship (puja) to her bansiwale murlimanohar Lord Krishna. Imagine this old woman telling stories to her grand children about honesty, truthfulness and for sure benefits of getting up early. Anyways, below is what I hate the most.

Early Morning Cleansing Raga :

I filled my water bottle with water of course ,came down stairs and headed out for my morning run. It was partly cloudy and still dark. I am still walking , I start running once I cross this main road, stray dogs don't like people running so early. Oh, I see another early morning walker in our 3rd main road with his dog. I see this man often with his dog on the main road though. He is an active man, I guess is a member of RWA committee too. As I passed by him I turned back just to see his dog, shocked !!!! His dog was doing his thing in front of our main gate. Shit!!! I thought silently, what else can a tenant of a rented premises do ? I took the right turn and crossed the main road. This old @$$ is an educated uncivilized moron I was thinking.

So, finally I came to my favorite stretch, which is a road that enters into this small IT park. This small road is covered by thick canopy of trees, a perfect track for morning walkers and one of the reasons I still like to live nearby. People walk and run on both sides of this road which is okay before 7AM. Everything is good except the ugly thing you will not appreciate is when you see elderly public spiting on the sides, while others are still walking and running. Randomly they will take their time collect their phlegm in their throat and project it on their side, without caring if some one is coming from behind. I  understand after an age your lungs and throat continuously generate this sensation to shoot (phlegm) outside but this emission can be avoided at the walk roads. Why can’t they just spit little wide open where no one walks, may be over that deadly parthenium hysterophorus.(गाज़र घास )This habit in people kills me every morning. Do you think such people can ever really teach good habits, moral or social values to their little one. It might be a miniscule thing for them but explains everything of a certain way of living. And ironically then these uncivilized hypocrites bash India as a garbage.

~bd

Book Review : The Catcher in the Rye

I finished reading this book “The Catcher in the Rye” a 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger, a few months back and I wanted to share my views with others and in fact want to recommend reading it.Honestly this is one of the best timeless classic I have read recently. The book is all about a rich frustrated teenage rebellion who hates the false show off, forced customs and hypocrites in the society. Superb commentary by “JD Salinger” amazingly he touches the innocence and emotional side. The story is all about this teenage protagonist Holden, who doesn’t like schools knows that he is to be expelled from his school, leaves his school alone , spends a couple of days in New York where he meets various people, friends and goes though various experiences .

His conversation with his classmates , the hotel guy, his younger sister who he loves so much, his dead brother , the two nuns and with others are really amazing. At times you feel that you know him and his surroundings better than Holden, and for me that's the beauty. Though the book is set in early 1960's but it’s timeless, believe me you can experience yourself as the narrator. It definitely reminds you of your school days, classmates, teachers and people from your adulthood days. Another beauty in this book is, once you get hold of your copy , you will be addicted to finish it the same day , well you can do it just less than two hundred pages.

While I am highly recommending you to read this book, just now I opened a random page and picked these lines for you…… "He was even more depressing than the room was. He was one of those bald guys that comb all their hair over from the side to cover up the baldness. I’d rather be bald than do that."

I shared my thoughts about this book with one of my very good American friend (x colleague),as per him “The Catcher in the Rye” is for sure a timeless classic, one of top hundred controversial book of 20th century, was required reading for many students at one time or another in American schools”

I am sure you will enjoy reading this book.
                                                                                                                                                

~bd

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