Joe Speak

His head was spinning violently. He could not stand on his own. The whole world was swimming before his eyes as if he was looking through a screen of smoke. He felt that his feet were playing games with him. Every tread seemed to be laborious, with the effort making him sweat. He clamped down the violent urge to throw up and swallowed down the bile that threatened to drown him. The cars that whizzed pass did not make him even blink an eye lid. He felt that he was invincible, except for the revolutions of his head, and even tried to throw some thing at a passing Amby – that was wheezing and sputtering. Later, on retrospection, he would ask to him self, “Why did I take a dig out at that Ambassador?”, it had its own fair bit of problems – like the clogged exhaust, pistons that no longer produced the, escape velocity needed to propel the massive junk of rusting metal forward, or the air horn when in operation, which it seldom did, made a sexagenarian with acute case of Tuberculosis sound...

After three months of searing heat, it has finally arrived. The most awaited guest on all of the South India , the Monsoon. The word Monsoon is derived from the Arabic word Mausam through the Portuguese word monção. The three months of summer is very harsh on the Indian subcontinent, and the current trend in climate change is doing nothing to alleviate this situation, rather than to make it much worse. Monsoon is a time for joy and of escape from the harsh rise in the mercury. It is with great anticipation that the people in South India – especially Kerala- look forward to it. Monsoon in Kerala is the period of heavy rain, of cool winds and strengthening of the greenery. The heavy rains bring life back to the earth, the rivers and the streams get healthier and stronger and the dense foliage becomes ever more robust. My idea perfect monsoon is lounging on an easy chair, on the verandah, with a cup of hot coffee and a Robert Ludlum Novel. Also it is the time to listen to the potpour...