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Tag: plinky prompts

  • Broadcasting….

    Do I ever listen to Radio anymore? Asks Plinky. Of course Not voluntarily, but out of compulsion as my husband has tuned in to FM radio. We get some channels called RadioMirchi and 98.something FM. They have idiotic RJ’s presenting cacophony passed off as music. Radio news is only bearable since there are no visuals…

  • Vote out

    I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. W. C. Fields Will I vote this year?When did I last vote? asks Plinky Last Tuesday at the Toastmaster’s to elect the best speaker, evaluator and so on. But we are talking of the political electoral then its ages since I did vote. For us in…

  • the first day of spring.

    When winsome westerly winds caress comely creeping cloves As bumblebees’ buzz-buzzing and cuckoos’ coo-cooing resound in huts, in coves, in groves, In springtime, the sensual season so langorously long for forlorn lovers, Krishna strays and plays, my friend, dancing with young girls. The poem by the Sanskrit poet Jayadeva, describes Krishna in spring. Spring the…

  • Mad Hatter

    Katherine Whitethorn claimed that hats were divided into 3 classes’ offensive, defensive, shrapnel.  Yet when Plinky posted this query I wore my thinking hat! Let me see, what kind of a hat would I  be? Different hats for the different personalities that I host, and tasks they do of course… The all American baseball cap,…

  • A magazine that I would like to edit.

    Broadcasters are storytellers, Newspaper guys are fact finders and organizers of information news magazines are kind of hybrid of both. With dictum in mind if there was one magazine that I would like to edit if given a chance, is an Indian magazine called ‘Woman’s Era” a magazine that I have been reading since the…

  • The moody weatherman

    Weather is a great metaphor for life – sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets Rainbows “Moods, are the clutter-declutter pattern of us created by our harmones, experiences, anticipatory response and even the weather. We tend to have feel energtic with…