It’s been over six months that I’ve picked up the kids from school every other day . Yet it was only when Wow Dinga pointed it out to me did I realise that the ‘electric pole’ was actually a Palm Tree! While busy chatting with mums and grandmums, I failed to recognise this straight pole as a tree trunk. Thanks Wow Dinga for helping me look beyond my nose.
Sharing this with Parul and other tree lovers at #ThursdayTreeLove.
How often have you mistaken a thing for something else?
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Step exercises take on an entirely new meaning when one uses the stairs to access the skywalk at Nana’s Chowk. This busy intersection in South Mumbai is so foolishly made that most people prefer to risk being run over to cross the road rather than take the steps which do not really take you across unless you want to go to Grant Road station.
To make them more attractive, the sides have been painted in attractive colours. And as an added incentive to use them, the Municipal Corporation has calculated the calories you burn with every step.
Laudable though this effort may be, once again the intentions of the Municipality are misplaced as the people who use the steps are generally fit in the first place. Very rarely do fat aunties use the train let alone the steps!
Sharing this with Esha and Natashaon #WordlessWednesday.
Hope your week has been good so far.
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Have you ever seen a kite fight?
Mumbai’s skies, earlier this week saw many kite fights.
On the 15th we celebrated the festival of Sankranthi, a day which marks the beginning of the northward movement of the sun. This is one of the few Hindu festivals determined by the Solar calendar rather than the Lunar one.
At this time of year with the winter at its peak, people get together in open spaces or like in my city of Mumbai on top of terrace rooftops. They enjoy soaking in the mild sun, munching on sesame seed and jaggery sweets and of course flying kites
The kites are handmade and the string used is special . This string called ‘manja‘ is rolled around a wooden reel. Don’t get fooled by its thinness. It is actually a cotton thread stiffened and fortified with a powdered glass coating. This makes the string sharp enough to cut down another kite that is flying above. It has also claimed the lives of innocent people standing by who can’t see it darting dangerously low to ground.
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See you next week,
Twenty- five Seven 