These are jaggery cubes.
If these are too big for me, I cut it into pieces, pop one, roll it in my mouth and let it melt π I usually like to have one after meals.
Have you tried it ever?
Tag: dailyprompt
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and it never gets done…
I was 10 when some guest speaker addressed us, students, in our school. He expatiated on the virtues of rising early and made a deep impression on young me. Before that, I often heard from my father ‘Early to bed and early to rise…’ β.Λ βΎβ.Λ
β°So in my early days I made a resolve to be an early bird. I often set the alarm for 4 or 5 am but alarm could never rouse me from my slumberand even if it did I soon dozed back. π€
My mother finally told me not to set the alarm as it woke up everybody but me. I agreed on the condition that she would get me up. That too didn’t work and whatever time I was up I threw a tantrum why she did not get me out of bed in time. π«
Decades later my dream of being ‘healthy, wealthy and wise’ is still unrealized. γ
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My Ideal Day
π I wake up in time to catch the glimpse of the rising sun. I like to behold the ruddy sky in the east. Then i sit or lie down calmly thinking my thoughts. When I’m done I’ll stretch and sit for my Pranayam.πͺ· I lie down some more listening to my favourite songs by Pt Jasraj, Kumar Gandharv, Begum Akhtar or whichever song has me under its spell at that moment. I play that again and again. β«
No chores please! And no plans either!
πI then pick some books and my kindle too. Those are at the hand so I lift them without having to get up. Surrounded by the books thus, now I pick my phone check mails, messages, feed, some shopping site while books wait for me. One fine moment I’d shove it away, pick a book and immerse myself. Once in a while I pause and wonder at the beauty of thoughts and words. I doze off, read again, listen to the music and keep alternating between these.
πCome evening and I need to go for a long walk with a friend, we talk, exchange ideas, sit on the bench or the grass, feel the breeze, gaze up, chill some more…some writing before retiring. π΄
Oh, I didn’t say a word about meals. I don’t want to give much thought to it. Fruits, juices, soups, coffee would be fine on an ideal day. ππππββΎβοΈ
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Books I want to Read
Like Rudyard Kipling’s Yellow Dog Dingo, I am ‘always hungry’ (π). I want to reread so many from Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies to Coleridge’s The Rime of Ancient Mariner, to Kipling’s Just So Stories, Jungle Book, to Midnights Children, to all the books by Hans Anderson, all the books by Jim Corbett, all the books by Munshi Premchand and so many more.
However, currently on the top is the latest book by Salman Rushdie ‘The Eleventh Hour’ and one audiobook ‘Sunny Boy’. Guess who wrote this.
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What do I complain about most?
(οΉΛ βπ§ ΛοΉ)The noise. The blaring loud speakers, be it a festival or a wedding or victory. Also people sitting close and talking loudly at high pitch makes me recoil.
Hey, don’t get me wrong. I love soft, calming , soothing sounds. πΉπΆ π ΰ½ΌβΌπ βΉ ΰ£ͺ οΉποΉποΉβΉ ΰ£ͺ Λ
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