Loove marriage…

One weekend recently, I asked my uncle (the Punjabi one) to pick me up from my new place on his way home to the baarder. When he came by, my landlord was loitering near the gate so I introduced them to each other and they a pleasant chat in Punjabi reassuring each other about the safety of the little girl (me). A couple of days, my landlord asks me, “Your uncle, he’s Punjabi. But you…..?” For I obviously don’t sound or look remotely Punjabi. I confirmed my madrasi origins while saying the uncle was an uncle by marriage. That zapped them further and he said, “We don’t marry our children outside the community”. So I said it wasn’t my grandparents choice, my aunt decided herself. And the mystery unmystified itself in their eyes.

“Ah! Love marriage!”

The simian habit…

The monkey menace in Delhi is a favourite space filler with the media. There were all these reports of monkeys going crazy some months ago. Including one about this monkey which attacked a municipal corporation guy causing him to fall off the building and die. This monkey was hunted down and caught – maybe it owned up to the crime – and relocated out of the urban area to Asola Wildlife Sanctuary. Asola is this scrubby jungle with no wildlife really, on the Delhi-Haryana border. It also happened to be our very own baarder so you can imagine we weren’t too thrilled about this MCD personnel killer monkey in our neighbourhood! Wonder if the monkey which slapped our dog was the same one?

Talking of monkeys, was on my way to Jantar Mantar to meet some protesters (as always) when I noticed these two dudes on a scooter in front of me at the traffic lights. The pillion rider was carefully searching through his friend’s hair. Apparently our simian instincts haven’t left us completely.

Btw, nothing to do with monkeys...its been a month sans beret! How time flies!

War against global warming...

Cities around the world observed Earth Hour this weekend by switching off all electrical appliances for the appointed hour. Me and the denizens of Utsav, Kant Enclave, The Baarder also observed Earth Hour - for 12 hours.