I must say, I have not found the summer this year very bad; but I was still longing for those first showers….yesterday there was apparently a downpour but not where I was….but just now, the air suddenly cooled, the breeze blew up, and the rain in pouring down now…oh, how wonderful is that first smell of the wet earth, as the parched land soaks the water in…how healing to the heart and soul, as the dust and heat get washed away in the cool, life-giving downpour!

If non-vegetarians advocating free-range chicken farming (where chickens are not “cooped” up but are allowed to run free) are SO concerned about those chickens’ lives, why, then, ultimately kill them and eat them? Isn’t it a bit like the witch feeding up Hansel?

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Yesterday evening, it was fun being with , and ..or it would have been, if I hadn't been so infernally sleepy...I went to sleep sitting on (or in) the bean bag, and I don't know when the evening broke up!

Each city has different centres for different purposes; but to me, the very heart of my city is the Brigade Road/Mahatma Gandhi Road/Church Street area. After buying tickets to watch “The Namesake” at the Rex Theatre (surviving the decades on Brigade Road), I walked around with the camera. This area is also a very fashionable place, where young people (and the not-so-young) dressed up to the nines, throng the malls, the shops, the movie theatres, the pubs, or just “hang around”.