Aal izz well
Aal izz well As I sit here drumming the keyboard, I want to share with you this feeling of immense satisfaction that things have begun to move more or less smoothly and we can now go on with our lives as usual. If you are raising your eyebrows or scrunching your nose at this, please be patient for the next three minutes and go through my explanation. It has been two days since Diwali. The dense smog generated due to explosion of tons of paper-wrapped gunpowder into piles of garbage in just a couple of hours by husbands and sons of women who claim to be unable to sleep without air purifiers on normal days, is beginning to clear. The animals and birds s*** scared of this war on their sensory organs are beginning to come out of their hiding places. We have duly worshipped the brightly painted small clay figures of Lord Ganesh and goddess Lakshmi , pleaded with them to grant us the boons which the other gods ignored or forgot to bestow on us during the rest of the year, and d...