When I was Away

Happy Earth Day, my lovelies! I’ve been postponing just about everything in my life for a little later. The ‘later’ like ‘tomorrow’ never came. So I forced myself to take a walk- apparently a walk clears your mind and multiplies thoughts in your head. So it did. And it has now left me so stimulated that I want to do everything this very minute!

Let me at least feel the satisfaction of translating my high into words, will then get the show on road :D.

Wanted to share the two absolutely worthwhile things I did in the last few weeks.

1. Watched Kannathil Muthamittal

2. Finished Reading Sea of Poppies by Amitava Ghosh

Kannathil Muthamittal is a film I’d been meaning to see for the longest time and finally did over mugs of steaming cha. Sometimes when I think of Mani Ratnam’s films, I can never really point to his best work, because each one is such a pièce de résistance. And with Kannathil, I look at him with the same reverence as I have for Ray. It was delightful to watch a Tamil film, owing to the fact that I do understand the language in bits, though couldn’t have done without the subs. (Can I let out a secret? I need subs for Engileees phillums too. Ma kasam their  firangi confounding accents can get the better of me :D) Kannathil Muthamittal, literarily translated as ‘A peck on the cheek’, had me thinking for a long while about adoption and children who cannot accept the reality when told. How hard it must be for both, the parent and the child. But that aside, do watch the film- rarely will you come across a film that indeed touches your soul…and watch it for Srilanka’s breath taking beauty and the civil war that didn’t let us see the other face of SL.

Sea of Poppies- OH. MY. God. What a tremendous book. Each and every line is a literary masterpiece, and I don’t for even one bit understand why this book didn’t win the booker (it was published around the time White Tiger was and Adiga won it). The language, the sheer amount of research that must have gone into it, and those characters had me asking for more. And I so can’t wait for the next in the trilogy. Any idea what its called?

So then, I have been up to all this monkey business. You?

And before I end- can I say a simple Thank YOU? No no, not in the ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ sense. I really do want to thank you bloggiques, who I look forward to entertaining every day. Though off late I’ve barely written anything that’s even remotely hilarious. Still, it matters that you read. And send me emails out of the blue to say mostly good things :D. So then, Danke, for being around.