Goin' Bananas.

I’m slowly going bananas.

So many movies to watch. So many books to read.

My computer hard drive is filled with quite a lot of movies I’ve been planning to see. Then my cupboard, which is meant for my engineering course books, is flooding with novels, journals (!!), old Reader’s Digests (they keep piling up), cut out newspaper articles (as old as 23^rd of November) and even books on such vague subjects that I’m not supposed to be concerned with (most peculiar being an all-about-America’s-next-top-model book).

What am I gonna do?

I can’t possibly watch all those movies, since I live with my parents now. I don’t know if you’ve experienced it or not, but my parents do sneak up on me while I watch Hollywood movies to keep a check on me if I’m watching a steamy scene (somehow, they never want to believe that Hollywood movies do have a story and are not “just about sex” as they call them).

As far as books are concerned, most of my collection has been borrowed from here and there. So, I’ve to read a lot of books simultaneously, since everyone is bugging me to return their books. So, I run on an extremely tight schedule to meet my “lenders’” demands.

Well, I said it, one of these days, I’m goin’ bananas!

Introspection walk

I love winter.

Why?

There are obvious reasons, like summer is actually unbearable (power-cuts taken into consideration). Then, all things in life become much more enjoyable during winters. For example, working out becomes much easier (specially weight training) and of course, as most of you might know, sex is also excessively enjoyable during winters. Also, endless number of cigarettes and cups of coffee (or tea) don’t seem over-the-top anymore.

But for me, there is another important reason. I look forward to this season due to the fact that it allows me to go on my ‘introspection walks’. Agreed, I go on these walks during summer too, but during that season I have to do that during night alone (one can’t be expected to go on long walks when one’s ass is on fire).

So, in winter I can actually go for these walks during daytime.

Daytime ‘introspection walk’ is much better.

I love walking alone, observing little things that are normally overlooked when you are speeding away on any gas-guzzler.

Puppies playing,

Woman sweeping away,

Beggar lighting up biri,

Rickshaw-wala taking a nap,

Little girl crying for balloon,

All these little things somehow take me away from the actual realities of my life. Maybe I’m crazy (or just plain weird) but I feel that roaming around the streets during sunny winter mornings helps me to introspect better.

My parents think that I’m nothing more than a loafer wandering the streets (awara-types), but then that’s another story…

Guide to Malgudi

Finally finished with Guide.

I can’t start to tell you how many people, or should I say book lovers, were actually cursing me for not finishing it faster. And they are right.

It’s not lengthy, it’s not a tough read and, most of all, I’ve already read it before.

But, in my defense, reading it this time, I actually felt as if I was reading it for the first time. I guess I was too young when I read it the first time (I was 11) to relate to it. Plus, R.K.Narayan is so brilliant that you would breeze through any of his books, and every time you’ll read them you’ll find them still fresh as ever.

His way of elaborating the small nothings of life is so good, that you start to want to enjoy every word of it.

Anyone aware of Malgudi Days would understand what I mean.

Come to think of it, I feel bad for him that he, arguably, remains one of the most underrated writers in India (Indians are actually busy trying to flaunt their “connections” with Salman Rushdie and V.S.Naipaul).

But don’t worry man, I love you. And I hope there are a lot of people like me who have enjoyed your works and keep them close to their hearts.