My Friend Ganesha

“When will Ganesha come to our house” the four year old Shreya asked her mother innocently.

“Ganesha lives in the sky, he cannot come to our house” her mother replied. “He is my friend, I want to play with him” she persisted.

Her mother looked at her and tried her best to make her understand that Ganesha is not seen by the humans and that’s why we worshipped him in the form of idols and pictures. “I want to play with Ganesha” Shreya kept repeating.

The father who was sitting on the sofa nearby, lost behind the newspaper was roped in by the mother to explain the absence of Ganesha.

“He is my friend and I want to play with him” she retorted as her father made his attempt. “How can he be your friend, have you met him or seen him?” questioned her father. “No” Shreya replied with her head down. “How will he come to your house now if you have not met him or invited over?” The question was met with a silence. She went back to playing with her doll lying on the floor.

The cell phone rang which the father picked up and hung up after a few minutes. “Who called up?” Shreya asked from a distance. “That was my friend Ganesh” he replied.

“Ganesha a friend of yours?” she asked her father who on realization gave a puzzled look and the mother broke into a laughter.

Come Back

Jigna moved her hand on the other side of the bed and on finding nothing started moving her fingers up and down. Quickly she opened her eyes to see that there was no one else on the bed.

She came out of the room looking here and there when light emitting from the hall caught her attention. Curiously, she moved towards the hall only to find the door ajar. The house was searched and there was no one’s presence except hers. She panicked, grabbed the house keys and went downstairs.

Jigna ran outside in the middle of the night and found her standing at the gates of the building. “Mom, what are you doing here?” she asked her mother, who was dressed in a sari and her long hair open. “I am waiting for you Dad. He told me he was going to come” she replied.

“He is not going to come back, he is gone”. She tried telling her but she won’t listen. “Okay, let’s wait for him at our home” Jigna told her mother and took her back to home. She had managed to put her mother to sleep and still somehow sleep eluded her.

Tears kept flowing through her eyes as she looked at her mother sleeping peacefully. She took out the newspaper cutting from the side table and looked at it for a while.

It was the obituary of her father who had passed away a year ago, still her mother longed for him to come back.

Tagged: With An Award

 


Sunil gave away the award which took me by surprise. Thanks for the award Sunil.

The award comes with a tag which as usual took a long time as I was scratching my head for the answers. This is what I could up with:

1. What is your current obsession?

I, me and myself

2. What are you wearing today?

Now, T-shirt and shorts

3. What's for Dinner?

Chicken dish

4. What are you listening to right now?

Pardesi from Dev D

5. What do you think about the person who tagged you?

Someone with a sense of humor, a book lover and likes to click pictures. Knows what he wants from life.

I hope I did justice :)
 

6. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?

An unexplored remote island like the one found by Robin Crusoe.

7. What are your must-have pieces for summer?

Nothing (if its clothes related). Living in Bombay means a long summer except when the rain decides to cool the place.

8. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

Taj Mahal & Angkor Wat, Cambodia

9. Which language do you want to learn?

Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam

10. What's your favorite quote?

Don’t have any favorite as such but for now I like this one:

“If we act out of fear and not hope we get bitter and not better”

— Jesse Jackson

11. Who do you want to meet right now?

My naatku niece

12. What's your favorite colour?

Light Blue

13. What is your favorite piece of clothing in your closet?

Black T-Shirt with a White Tiger image

14. What is your dream job?

I have two dream jobs

1) To own a media production company, shoot short films and produce TV shows something on the lines of the Alva brothers or may be different.

2) Entrepreneur.

15. What's your favorite magazine?

Reader's Digest.

16. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?

I would probably save some and spend the rest on clothes.

17. What do you consider as fashion faux pas?

Govinda’s fashion statement

18. Who according to you is the most over-rated style icon?

Megan Fox, her face looks odd and the ‘sexy’ tag puts me in a mystery.

19. What kind of haircut do you prefer?

The one that makes me look good

20. What are you going to do after this?

Take a nap.

21. What are your favorite movies?

This puts me in a tight spot. I have a long list of them and don’t remember names of the few. So here is what I could recall.

Hindi:

Bombay to Goa, Amol Palekar & Hrishikesh Mukherjee Movies (don’t remember the names), Andaz Apna Apna, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar, Dil Chatha Hain, Lakshya, Hyderabad Blues, Teen Deewarien, Nayak, Taxi No. 9211, Ek Chalis ki Last Local, Dev D 13B. There are a few others that I am missing out on.

English:

Remember the Titans, Ron Howard movies, Die Hard Series, Stranger than fiction, Terminator Returns, 1408, Ed TV, Hero (Dustin Hoffman), Kill Bill series, Freedom Writers, Harry Potter series, Enemy at the gates, The Bucket List, Bourne series, Monster House, Sixth sense and many more.

22. What are three cosmetic/ makeup/perfume products that you can't live without?

Shaving kit does the trick (That too I use because I don’t want to scare away people)

23. What inspires you?

The ability to make a difference.
 

24. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:

1) Be Yourself

2) Smile, always works

3) Wear what looks good on you, not what you think

25. Coffee or tea?

Tea

26. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?

I eat, call someone, surf the net, walk or jot down those thoughts.

27. Which other blogs do you love visiting?

The ones on my Blogroll and Google Reader.

28. Favorite Dessert/ Sweet?

Anything that tastes good.

29. Favorite Season?

Rainy season.

30. If I come to your house now, what would u cook for me?

Won’t snacks do? I can cook an omelet and toast some bread.

31. What is the right way to avoid people who purposefully hurt you?

Give them something back that they were not prepared for.

32. What are you afraid of the most?

Fear of fear.

33. My question (Borrowed from Sunil): Funniest one-liner you've ever heard?

That I should get a degree/award for being a “Friend of Lovers”.

I pass on this award & tag to Meena, Grayquill, Rakesh, Shruti & Mad Alpha Moggie for having such wonderful blogs.