The Statesman, 27 October 2003 Funny how the most unlikely object can transport one to a faraway world from the past, not physically but through an uncanny presence. It happened with me that, one day, tired of hearing the same, monotonous answering “tone” on my mobile phone, I wanted to change it to something else.… Continue reading FROZEN MELODY
Day: July 20, 2021
MELLOW WAKEFULNESS
The Statesman, 31 August 2006 It is the sweetest alarm clock ever. The cuckoo in the tree next to my window may not be as minutely accurate as the cocksure cock when it comes to timing the break of dawn, but its soft cooing is any day preferable to the latter’s “rude awakening”. In fact,… Continue reading MELLOW WAKEFULNESS