musingswhileunlearning

Last evening my daughter walks into my room after her bath and perches herself upon my bed while I was looking for some quizzes to play on Sporcle! I took a cursory glance at her and saw her eyes swollen. After her agonising experience nearly a year ago about which I had written in an earlier blog, ( https://www.musingswhileunlearning.com/2019/02/like-it-or-not-growth-happens.html )  we are paranoid about her eyes and ENT status. I asked her whether she was   crying, mentally crossing out the PMS dates and she denied it. I stopped doing everything else and focused my full attention on her and asked her again, to which she shook her head as though to dismiss the idea but I knew I was right and I told her she’d have to give that answer to someone else. I waited for her to reply and she broke down.   My daughter is taking her pre-board exams and day before yesterday was her Mathematics paper- a subject that makes even a cool person like her sweat occasionally! On retu...

Credits: mictv.in August 2018 has seen rain wreaking devastation in God’s Own Country, Kerala. The little state on the south western Malabar Coast is endowed with Nature’s abundance and receives more than a fair amount of rainfall every year. This year the rains played havoc and after nearly a hundred years, the state has been hit with floods of this magnitude rendering over two lakhs of the population homeless, in relief camps and the death toll crossing three hundred and fifty and rising. Estimated damage is more than 10,000crores. Credits: indiatoday.in The News channels covering the situation show us how bad and depressing the situation is and yet, the reality is much worse. Shutters of thirty five of forty two dams have been opened! I was told by a friend this morning and we were chatting about how we had no idea that the little state of ours had so many dams! I read up about them and while some say there are 38-39, wiki says 42 with a list to support so I stand by 42 thou...