My Little Log Book

Of Many Colours I wore blue today. Royal Blue That is how I feel when I step out under the winter sky Bluebells on the hedges, blue bougainvilleas with their fluttering dry paper leaves Ice cold blue with blue bangles You had better keep your distance from me So they don’t offend you, my blue veins that stand out Getting up in the morning, taking my bath at dawn Washing those left over dishes And drying those cold clothes I wore blue today To feel the glitter in my blue eyes, for I am tired of feeling grey Is pink my colour? It gives the colour to my cheeks When my husband brings me a gift But more often when my in laws point out my mistakes I can hide under my pink lips, bangles and ribbons The blushes turn to anger soon Again that is pink and can be kept under wraps Like my pink dupatta which hid my embarrassment From the repulsive maulings Of a revered teacher or a co-passenger or a kin So I wear a brighter pink To hide behind...

(With due apologies to the real poets out there!) When hormones and BPs make a call Does friendship go for a stroll?  Kitty parties, kids and kitchen Maids, puppies, homework and men Tie it up with anniversaries and weddings Bdays, golf parties, work parties and promotions Parents, arthritis, doctors checkups Boss, deadlines, budget and the alumni curse Aunts uncles getting old As we struggle to make time for them Those childhood memories get slowly lost GTs, selfies, whatsapp, games though manage to rule the frame We still manage to survive the day With a smile, attitude and reserve at play Where Everyday is a new day and and Every pic has a new Wrinkle Those are not worry lines but smile lines  No anti wrinkle cream is erasing the experience No doc making us live forever When finally the mood swings stop and Life settles Remember we will be too old to play So let's enjoy the egos and squabbles And let those thyroid, ...

IPL at Vizag I have always loved my cricket, so it was a pleasant surprise when my husband asked me to accompany him to a cricket match at Vizag. I have been unaware of the IPL goings on for the past couple of years. I don't really remember the reason the interest just petered off. Was it when Chennai found itself at the centre of the betting scandal? I guess so. I mean when the Champion team's owner's relative was found out being immersed with unsavoury characters with proven involvement in betting scandals and the same owner owns Indian cricket and the captain of the team also captains the country...the relationship between all of Indian cricket and the betting industry and IPL becomes kind of incestuous. Anyways that's a separate story from my IPL watching yesterday! So, cut off as I was from the game I didn't know what to expect. But to my immense pleasure I found two heroes at the ground at Vizag! And one of them, my all time favorite in cricket, Rahul...