Amazing the way days melt into months while one is on holiday… And there have been SEVERAL over the summer.   Singly, and ‘en familie’.     Mostly South covering coast, plain and plateau of our glorious country….and even beyond.   Plus meet ups here with returning natives from distant shores.  Mostly catching up with family and friends then, has been the order of the weeks and months gone by.   

One thing has become increasingly clear with every return to base, here in Haryana.   In comparison to our Cow Belt , the Rest of India seems to be having it  better.  Or seem to deal with life’s problems differently.   They are a less ‘in your face’ aggressive, happier, chilled out lot.    Not that they don’t have problems , but either the climate and surroundings, ….OR some other special ingredient in their lives helps them evolve a mantra to cope better.  Would  like to make it my mission to find out what it IS!

Tales from folks and friends visiting from further shores only add to the gloom of life in heartless Haryana.   Many invitations to visit or move to as distant as Oz and Canada, set the family thinking.    With the ever flattening  globe, is it REALLY so impossible to envisage a shift?   

So South or further West or Far East…..?  That or those, have been the questions on our minds/     Getting  this forever on the move,family to settle down and discuss, is another story.  But I sense a readiness for some radical change.   Can that ever be a bad thing?   Only time will tell.

Meanwhile several dramas unfold on the National stage…., amidst an almost missed monsoon these past months.  A brand new lady President,  who NO one is excited about, but politically incorrect to pan.   A Nuclear Deal that threatens to ShAKE up and almost break up the running Government!     Xtreme politics, instead of sports ..in the ICL/  BCCI face off..   Good luck Kapil Dev, and kudos to you for even trying!     Ever rising crime , more sadly teenage crime draws a sad reminder to us parents/ educators and policy makers alike……. We are NOT doing our jobs right…. Why else would children be so Stressed, Depressed and Acting OUT on senseless aggressions?  

The good news?  Come September, the Weather Gods have been merciful and there have been a  few cooling showers in the past week.  Tempers have cooled and moods have lifted.    Pre-emptive action with the RWA helped save three trees in the plots ahead of us from being felled by the building mafia.   The sanction to cut one which interfered with a boundary wall, seemed to appease them, and help ‘save face’   

The most wonderful for all our spirits has been Team India’s winning the UK  cricket Test series/    Also putting up some semblance of  a fightback for the ODIs.   The Absolute cherry on the pie was Friday evening’s 20/20 mini World Cup WIN against Pakistan.  All credit to MS Dhoni and  his boys…   Our hearts and hopes go out to them for the rest of the series.    Think I can speak for MOST of us, on THAT one!

Cheers!    It’s good to be finally BACK, People, .     Have a  LOT of reading to catch up on.  See you by and by.

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