IMG_1340 ethos art gallery 300408
April 30th, 2008
Nagaraj Kapini and Pranoti Nagaraj
Multipurpose Commandment
July 12th, 2007I found this excellent, useful warning, just right for our moralistic thou-shalt-not society, on the wall of the ATM opposite my home…. If only Moses had thought of this, he need not have struggled down from Mount Sinai with two heavy stone tablets!
How to change the speed of the running fan?
July 3rd, 2007Found this in a shop in Chickpet….
Pic by Sanath Reddy
I
just couldn’t help wondering HOW they regulate the speed of the fan
when it’s running, and at the end, HAD to ask the shop-owner. He gave
me an explanation about lack of space elsewhere in the little, crowded
shop, which included the words, “we don’t change the speed of the fan.”
In that case…why have the regulator at all?
If they try to regulate the speed of the running fan, they are going to have to go to….er…second-hand shops!
Parenting
July 3rd, 2007How
Parenting is such a
difficult task…from the time the baby makes its appearance in this
world, you are actually more vulnerable than what a friend of mine once
called “a small, needy specimen of humanity”. As you watch anxiously
over the little one, you yet must also step back and allow more
independence, as that is the only way the infant/toddler will grow up
into a person. You constantly worry over little crises as they happen,
and hopefully, the child comes through them…illnesses, falls,
physical injuries and later, the traumas that the child weathers
mentally…and hopefully, you make it with the child intact…only
those who are making, or have made, the journey, realize how beset with
pitfalls it is. You take your eye off the child for just one minute and
trouble brews…but with luck, the trouble is something that can be
solved, and you and the child go forward to the next day.
awful, then, when that one moment of distraction, that one minute when
your not being on high alert, ends in tragedy…this just happened to a
friend’s friend, and like every parent, I felt my heart wrench at the
news of a child’s accidental, and sudden, death. How will the parents
face the horror of the guilt that will be gnawing them, the awful
thought, “If only I had kept watch…” I hope they slowly come to
realize that it is just not possible to be alert every waking and
sleeping moment of a parent’s life…the loss of a parent is bearable
as being part of the natural cycle of life, but the loss of a child is
beyond bereavement; as a caregiver, it is all too often a reproach to
oneself forever, of what one did or did not do, that could have saved
the little one.
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