Hands wrapped around

A small baby in your hands.. How does it feel? The tender hands, when they get hold of your finger. It’s a eternal feeling. It’s a feeling of responsibility, a feeling of pride, a feeling of extreme joy. You are being trusted, trusted as if you are God. You are responsible for the life of the little one. He/ she is comfortable in your arms, and you are ready to do anything for him/her.

I am travelling home in a 9:53 fast local from Bandra to Churchgate. And sitting right in front of me is a man carrying his little daughter in his arms. She is sleeping peacefully. Her little hand wrapped around her father’s index finger. It’s a moment to capture and hence I am now going to ask him if I can click her daughter.

These little ones are the greatest gift to us animals. They are the ones which make us humans. So keep loving them throughout your lives. :-)

15 Moments of Darkness

Today I re-discovered Bombay. After staying in this city for almost 3 years. I realised that there is a whole part of the city which I had never seen. I don’t know if you all have seen this part as yet, or even if you’ll have I don’t know if you have thought about this part. Its 12:35 am right now, and living on the 12 th floor I can see the whole of south Bombay in darkness. No lights, no sounds, no movement, it almost feels as if there is no life.

Yes it is one of those rare power cuts in this part of town. And it’s been there for the last 15 minutes. But these 15 have been good enough for me to see the other side of the city- DARKNESS.

The cool breeze still hits me and still gives me the chill, but it is different, I am enjoying it. I have been standing on the window for the last quarter of an hour and enjoying what I am seeing.

It is the first time in Bombay that I can see the stars, And more importantly make out the constellations in the sky. I can see the Orion, the warrior showing itself after a long-long time. It’s as if he has come out of the ashes, as if it has been dead all this while. It has been hiding from the city, in fear I guess. Or was it that it was just too illuminated in here to see it.

It difficult to pen down this moment but it is an eternal feeling which I get as I stand.

Perhaps living in second largest cosmopolitan in the world, we have forgotten about such experiences. It like we have forgotten of the life before Edison. Today we can just not live such a life. But today it’s very important for us to see what lies on the other side, the darker side. We need to realise how our ancestors had lived throughout there live without all this technology, without all this illumination present in our every day lives. It’s very essential for us to at least think about what it would have been for them, how they must have managed their living. Its like we have taken all this for granted. And our future generations will take us for granted for different reasons but they will never think about us and just say in their minds – Thank You.

It’s essential for every single individual to see from the perspective of others, others who are living without what we have, others who cannot afford it, others who did not have it during their age, others who have not experienced what we have. So from today onwards everyday lets spend some time and think about such a life. Today I thank all the greats for whom we are living the way we are- THANK YOU. J