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Ganga ki kasam

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Well no kasam as such but just liked the title. Ganga at Kanpur. I love it when it's all swollen and murky. Then it looks like the river they talk about in mythology and literature.

Sparkling flowers

Had this dream the other night of driving up to Gulmarg with ma & pa at night in a taxi. Pa was in the front seat with the driver while I was sitting right behind him with ma. On a straight road going up into the mountains I see this glorious, milky white full moon rising from behind the snow clad mountain peaks. The moon is so huge and bright that the snow on the peaks are glistening in the moon light and the tall trees appear dwarf in front of the moons magnifence. I tell pa to hand over his newly purchased SLR camera buy by the time I get it the moon is already up in the sky. Disapointed I look around to click something else and notice that the mountain side across the narrow valley that we are travelling in is covered with neon coloured small daisy like flowets! The sight of a whole mountain side covered with dimly lit flowers is mesmerising! P.S.: in the dream I ask ma whether the flowers are glowing because of the moon light? She says, no it's a special flourescent

Shooting Blues

On the beach..........white sand, deep blue sea............black bathing suites............walk back to the resort..........double storeyed white villas with red tiled roofs...........the path had those grey triangular bricks leading from the beach to our villa..........foreigners walking to the beach in the opposite direction (is this some where abroad?) Then it starts. Everyone stops and starts looking up and behind us. I notice this after a while. I stop up and look up. And then I see the shooting stars blazing through the sky, coming from the horizon over the sea. Not one or two but like fireworks. White, with long tails and in bundles of 5 to 7. Not once but again and again in a gap of a minute or so. What does it foretell?