Fresh morning
Raise with the Sun’s raise
Have breakfast,
Curd rice and pickle?
Idli sambar?
whatever you wish…
Race with the work
Pace with your strength
It’s lunch time right?
Rice and dal?
Roti and Sabji?
Whatever you have in your stock…
Again work or tour?
Some other task?
Which doesn’t disturb your normality…
Which doesn’t destroy your peace…
It seems very normal, right?
Not really…
If you analyze normally …
It is a great blessing God poured upon you.
Ask someone who lost their normal life, if you don’t believe me…
Who had forgone their peace forever…
Being normal is a priceless fortune as somebody said…
@Anjana Lahuri
I miss the days
The festival fervor;
The occasion when we summon ourselves to celebrate,
buying new clothes for which we wait anxiously
Buying new shoes,
Buying new powders, new earrings, new necklaces,
Smearing Mehandi over hands and legs,
Then the celebration starts;
With head bath,,
Wearing accessories whatever bought
Roaming to all the relatives,
Eating home made snacks,
Playing daylong in the streets,
Mobile free, selfie free, social media free…
The new dress wouldn’t be changed;
Until all the celebration is fulfilled,
Until the festival is finished,
What?
I am not saying I want all those days back…
I am not that selfish.
I only wish;
My kids also get such days,
And the same fervor,
Even more,
Before the world transforms into a,
Robo-tech, Digi-task, infinite G, oxy- incubator…
I am rich
I am fortunate
I have ego
I have self respect
I am confident
then you may doubt,
what is deprived of me?
you are right.
one more friend joined me recently
unasked
uninvited
and not friendly
it scares me
it captured my confidence
It gulped my personality
It chased my ego
It laughed at my richness
It challenged my fortune
My beautiful face transformed into a ghostly shade
My fearless stature shrunk back to shivery bearing
I hate this new comer
it is the fear
unknown fear
fear of uncertainty
fear for life
O god
teach me how to overcome this
bless me the courage
I know
with that I can do wonders in my life…
Anjana Lahuri @2021
Why am I searching the light
over the hills
up in the sky
all the places
when it is inside me
in the form of knowledge
in the form of right conduct
in the form of self discipline
in the form of me…
@Anjana Lahuri 2021
I am sure you heard about:
Changing the world over night;
Transformation of perspectives over night;
Irrelevance of ambitions overnight;
Dooming the confidence overnight;
loosing the hopes over night;
Becoming your goals and themes meaningless overnight.
What?
You feel ridiculous about what I am saying?
You see me as a fool?
You find me as a pessimist?
Definitely not?
until I lost my dear ones abruptly,
Until I am snapped by God and wrapped up in trauma,
Until I am shocked by the life’s mockery,
Now you may consider my story relevant.
Yet,
I am strong:
I am building the confidence;
I am trying to understand God’s play;
I am trying to move forward;
To turn my life bright again;
If not possible over night,
Over the years at least…
Nature has spectacular ways to heal your problems
Do you have the clean mind to absorb its medicine?
Nature has the best ways to say hello to you every day
Do you have the sufficient time to wish her back with a content smile?
Nature has a consistent way to recreate and regenerate according to your needs
Do you have the courtesy to maintain the same decorum?
Nature has beautiful ways to show you beautiful
Do you have the same sense not to intrude into her space and destroy her?
I think you have the broad way to give her back
To keep her intact
to inherit its grace to your next generations…
Chirapunji, that takes around one and half hour from Shillong, the head quarters of Meghalaya is a beautiful place to have a compulsory visit. But one can only enjoy the sceneries and the weather if we choose the correct climate, winter is the best. During rainy season the weather is unpredictable and we can’t see fully if the clouds scattered everywhere. Sometimes it will turn out as adventurous tourism as the clouds lands on the hills to the extent that we can’t see the road also and it will be tough for the nonlocal drivers as they wouldn’t have the clear idea of the season here. it was only my observation. But with a little bit study before you go about the climate and everything, it would become a memorable trip.
Can’t you see what is raining in my eyes
If you want to see
Can’t you guess what is freezing my mouth
If you want to listen
Can’t you guess what is aching my heart
If you want to feel
Can’t you see what is binding my legs
If you want to move along
Can’t you count my thoughts
If you want to be part of it
I only can say
Can’t everything be said
It is only up to you
Whether you want to know or not.
Anjana Lahuri@2021
I never expected I would get a day to write about my sister-that her life ends abruptly. Without enjoying the success that she had achieved. Without fulfilling the dreams she had dreamt. I don’t know how to take the game of fate – she didn’t have a slightest clue that something that big is going to happen to her. Of course for us too. She shred her last breath so easily in a blink of time Without any suffering. Everything was happened so quickly.
We both had a liberty to study professional education that many of girls couldn’t get in those days. That was only possible because of my father’s employment and his strong aspiration to see his daughters independent. My mother’s ambitious and hardworking attitude added to our success that we both could turn out as gazette officers, which again was not possible for many girls.
She always was a hardworking and bright student and upto intermediate she had been the topper. She wanted to be a doctor but she couldn’t get it. For the rank she got in MSET I.e. 13000, she only got Veterinary seat. Though We didn’t have any deficiency to live a comfortable life, it was a bit high to afford a payment seat of medicine for us in those days. So she had to join in Veterinary without much interest. Her dissatisfaction had gotten deep rooted in her mind that she couldn’t focus on Veterinary. She didn’t appear/pass for final examination as she kept on reading for MSET again. For her displeasure she got the same rank and same category. Though she had determination, she lacked maturity to get over it and took it hard to heart to continue in Veterinary.
—To be continued
