Reveries At A Lucid Interval

              “I am a perennial embarrassment.” -Rudra Chatterjee (Chitrangada:The Crowning Wish) Many moons ago, when I was more of a kid than a girl, I saw an image in an English daily followed at home. I was not more than ten years old at that time. In that big black and white photograph which occupied a considerable quarter of that page, two young women were embracing each other with a delicate and aesthetic intimacy. I stared at that column because, I felt nothing unusual in women who are close together! Mind fluttered with the question- “what has given this picture, such an importance to appear in this page.”  Being a person with incurable ‘curiosity syndrome’, I pushed myself to make sense out of the cluttered sentences upon the faded white page , fabricated with sophisticated words ! It was really so heavy to be afforded by my vocabulary, thoughts and consciousness. The only thing that I deduced from the whole article is the single idea – “girl-girl relationship

It has been two years into college and in an attempt to fathom my very own personality, there is one precious lesson that I have figured out –the lesson of acceptance. I stepped in as a judgmental being but as time crawled and paced, my conscience was positively influenced by experiences. There was one boy in the college who embarrassed me by confessing his heart out ridiculously and publicly during the very first days itself. I was not particularly irritated by the way my friends laughed at me for that incident but I certainly did rank him as an absolute non-sense person. His blind loose talks always infuriated my senses and often I struggled to maintain any amount of equanimity. This year,on one easy day in the campus, he appeared from nowhere, into my group, with his exasperating style of blague and I was annoyed. But when each of my friends left for their lunch, this boy started speaking sense and infact he came up with eye-opening statements itself! After a long hour

Before we start, answer me –“what in the whole world bind souls together? ” Come ‘on , give it a try. . .! Oh no…!   You are thinking so philosophically and obviously that is not the answer! The answer is foooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood! Because food links and glues people miraculously! If you are not so convinced, let me garnish this answer with personal flavours. Two years ago, when I came to Irinjalakuda as a fresher to join Christ College, I was just a tall, lean girl with an unappreciated appetite! I still remember how my neighbours and relatives used to gift me that awful look which made my blood boil! I was so fed up of replying their nasty queries and comments. But now, people would definitely spot me as a baby elephant who knows nothing but to fall upon food. Even when disappointment deep boils my head, I find solace with food. Madhuri Dixit of Irinjalakuda! So,this must be the right time to mention about some really special ladies in my life. Apar