Spent the past few days in a thoughtful state-recovering from the events in the past week, and planning ahead for things to come. Realized there's only so much one can prepare for and we must leave the rest to time to take care of itself. Finished reading 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' and am onto a book on Gandhi now, 'The Good Boatman' by Rajmohan Gandhi. A keeps telling me to keep working on my research as well. Its something I haven't done in a while, I must admit. There were a few papers written and submitted last month, but have pretty much given my brain a vacation in the past 10 days or more as far as work is concerned. Today a colleague called to discuss some work-related stuff, and thats when I realized I was getting a bit rusty. Dug out my old library of papers and did some reading..getting back on track now.
The weekend was productive..spent it getting an all-clear from the doc, with advice on keeping a close watch on things henceforth. Got groceries for the week, drove around the city a bit..its cloudy during the day these days, perfect for taking off on a car spin to the beach or just roam the streets of Chennai marvelling at houses located in quiet, clean, neighbourhoods with lots of trees for shade. My idea of perfection! :)
Got back home and was channel surfing for a while and realized there's nothing, absolutely nothing on TV, same as when we had Doordarshan as our only option, and the famous 'rukawat ke liye khed hai' card as our standard screensaver! Atleast I didn't pay a few hundred bucks each month for doordarshan-its slightly sad to have 200 channels covering sports, entertainment, news, etc and still have nothing to watch! Yesterday no matter what channel I was at, the only thing..the ONLY thing that was on was Dhoni's 'exclusive' wedding to which no one was invited. I'm not even sure if the average TV viewer is interested in Dhoni's life off the cricket ground: as long as we bring home important trophies, I think thats all the average sports fan wants! He can date/marry whomever he likes, I doubt if anyone really gives a cat's meow about it! Anyway, I think the media's continuing coverage of the wedding was aimed at generating audience interest in the subject-I think we were almost expecting Dhoni to do a Sania Mirza at the last minute and call off the engagement before marrying Deepika Padukone or Asin!
So while the world wishes Dhoni and his new bride all the very best, I just want to tell the media to back off-I think Dhoni sent the message to them loud and clear when he chose to get married at a remote estate with high iron gates and a sign that said 'Trespassers will be prosecuted'. Thats enough to keep me off the subject in any case!
Time for some good old fashioned reading!
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