Unbounded Randomness

Day 90 or may be 91: Never mind, I have forgotten the count. It was one of those days in the Lock-down, when I had finished cooking, cleaning and was now sitting at my favorite place in the bedroom, wondering what do I do next? Few options slid through my mind, Netflix? YouTube? talking to someone on phone? Playing with my son?........and the list kept going….. I could not settle with any option. All of them had been overused in the past couple of months with no resort to my heart. No matter the option, I always felt restless in the end. And then of course there were other things to worry about like, what’s the count of Corona patients in the world, in our country and in our neighbourhood? What new rules are in place? Who got infected and how? What precautions should or should not be taken? What to eat and how to eat? Medicines? And then inadvertently, I felt I was actually feeling a little sick. May be I had throat pain, did I feel a bit hot? should I check my temperature?. Or...

When Richard , my colleague, asked me “ So what is it exactly that you miss about your country ?”,my mind was suddenly filled with images and events of relatives , friends, college, school, food, movies and an endless list got created in my mind. We were sitting at our desks on the computer in our posh office in London and chatting about ‘how so many Indians come to UK in search of better life’. I, as always, was explaining everyone about the differences in India and UK. I always wondered what these British people must be thinking about we foreigners, invading their country, creating competition for jobs , building temples around, changing their taste buds to ‘curries’ and making their lifestyle more diverse , fast and colourful. The’ Indianism’, as I have named it, is a fast growing culture spreading throughout the globe. Indians are opportunists and they have reached all the places in the world where there is opportunity to grow, learn, earn and prosper. They have strong foundati...