Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Bomma-rillu

Anwar was happy with the trip to the sea shore so far. There have already been two games of cricket, one ride of the horse-cart, an hour of floating in the shallow waters and of course Candy-floss, Buddhi-ke-baal as they called it.

Physically tired, but mentally pumped up, Anwar looked around to find an activity to expend his energy. He saw his ammi packing the bags. It will take atleast 30 mins to gather and pack, he thought to himself. He started playing with the sand, to find small crabs, and started digging. He got bored soon. He watched the mound that he had unearthed. Slowly he started giving shapes to the mound. Within 15 minutes, a small castle of dreams started to etch out in the sandy beach. His mother was also watching intently, admiring his passion and dedication for this activity. He went on to make detailed walls, doors and windows on to the castle. Oyster and Crab shells bedecked his castle, adding to the strength. Smack!!! landed the ball on to the tallest tower. The entire castle collapsed and the evening wind levelled the mound soon.

Ammi carried the sobbing Anwar on her shoulder, consoling him that when he grows up he can build a real castle.......

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Simple Harmonic Motion

Kishore forgot that he has the next class on the 5th floor of his college, and he started running to the classroom. He glanced at his watch, and found that he was already late by 5 minutes. Kishore was really irritated with the course of things, nothing seems to go right at the moment. "Why is this happening with me", he was wondering.

He silently walked into the classroom and settled down at the last row. He watched the Blackboard, and found it cluttered with lot of trigonometric equations. Among the equations, he found the lesson topic for the day, "Simple Harmonic Motion (S.H.M)". After 40 minutes of fighting with equations and sin-cos functions, professor Bandopadhyay, started summarizing the lesson. Kishore woke up from his siesta, and tried to concentrate. Proffesor Bandopadhyay's lecture is generally boring, but the summary was usually good and concise.

Bandopadhyay spoke, "So, as you see, even though the motion of the pendulum seems to-and fro in a linear space, in reality, the to and fro motion is the projection of a point rotating on a circle with constant speed. In other words, even though the point is rotating in a circle with constant speed, if you view it from a particular point of view, the point is oscillating !! Amazing isnt it ?? "

The class dispersed, but Kishore was still there in the last row, scribbling his learnings into his diary.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Boomerang

It was a lazy sunday morning, and the clock was lazily pointing 5 minutes to 9.00 a.m. Most of the kids in P&T colony were still in dreams, except Raju who was ready, taken bath, had the breakfast and ready for his favourite sunday morning show, "Mowgli". This particular day they showed Mowgli discovering the boomerang and playing with it.

Curious with the boomerang, Raju tugged his father who was also watching the show.

Paapa, does this really work ?

Yes beta, specially they are used by people in Australia.

Can I make one ?

Why not, It works on simple principles of aerodynamics........ One minute, reduce the volume, the phone is ringing.

Who was it, Raju's mom asked ?

It was Manilal, he wanted some money to help with his son's engineering admission. How can I help him ? I have so much other expenses these days. My home loan EMI is Rs. 25,000.

Raju shouted, Paapa really will you make it in such a way that when we throw it, it will come back to us after some time ??

Monday, June 14, 2010

Humans.... Equals ?

The year is 3520 .......

The Earth is still ruled by apes. Those were the days when humans were the latest addition to the poultry animal lists, and human meat was a craze in the local restaurants.

Mutendu, decided that he will also try human flesh. So he went to Hotel Paradise for lunch, which claimed that the meat was fresh and any meal will be ready only after 2 hours (Still lot of human parts are considered venomous, specially the soft portions in the skull and ......). Mutendu reached at 10.30 am hoping to receive his lunch on time. The table attendant, asked him politely his order.

I would like to have a human. Please suggest me a good dish, Mutendu said quietly.

The waiter said, American: very large soft, indonesian: very tender, Try Indian Sir, it would be very spicy and enjoyable.

OK, bring me an Indian, Mutendu quipped.

The waiter enquired, Do you want north Indian Sir, or South Indian ?

Hmmm.... South sounds fine, Mutendu replied.

The waiter elaborated, In south Indian, you have Kannadiga, Tamil, Malayalee, Andhra types.

I think, I have heard about Andhra, bring that quickly please, Mutendu said, staring at the ticking watch.

Sir, In Andhra we have Coastal, Hyderabadi, Godavari and Guntur styles, the waiter listed out.

Mutendu had lost his patience, Bring a Damn human, you $%$$%........ I dont care what it is, I guess all are the same.......

Chicken Puff

The brahmin went with an empty stomach to the Silverline bakery opposite kundalahalli gate. He watched greedily at the delicacies on display, and ordered fresh samosas. He contemplated on the work he had done through the day and was grinning, thinking about his success.

Bhaiyya, give one chicken puff, the girl in a tight black jeans, blurted out. Her husband was standing calmly, one hand on her shoulder.

The Brahmin tried to ignore them, but still kept observing them from the corners of his eyes.

No darling, he will not eat. He will not like it, the husband said to her.

No yaar! He will like it, the taste of flesh will make him healthy, the girl muttered.

This sentence rang a bell in the brahmin's mind. Ghor Kaliyug, he exclaimed in his mind. Today's youth have such corrupted mind, and their minds are filled with filth. This young modern couple feel that their children at home will be healthy by eating chicken. The next 5 seconds, the brahmin prepared his speech that he was about to lash out on the young modern couple. He threw away his paper plate, picked up his bag, turned away from the couple and started towards the counter to pay up. I will teach them little dharma today, he was mumbling, trying to recollect all the relevant slokas.

As he turned back to the couple, he noticed that they have vanished. On the road, he saw a pale skinny dog enjoying a chicken puff. He went back to counter, and ordered, bhaiya give me a chicken puff.........