Winter of Discontent

It certainly has been a bitter month of a cruel winter last month in our country .While it is nothing new in foreign lands to face such climes of extreme cold temperatures and dense foggy conditions, the weather in India has been a shocker of sorts.It certainly took the wind out of the sails.All of us travelling whether by air or by train-routes had to suffer the spine-chilly taste of the chilly weather .

Yours truly for instance was always eager to take the 11-day long journey on the world’s longest rail-route in Russia but one long journey from Allahabad to the national capital spanning the time-zone of twenty-six hours made the T20 cricketing format seem as dreary as a five-day long test-match .Unbelievably,unwittingly,unexpectedly the arduous journey enabled me to taste the ‘fun’ of the longest day and the longest night of the year pass as a combined unsavoury treat.

No more do I visualize the spectacle of being stranded at ‘Dakshin Gangotri’[the Indian base-camp in Antarctica ] - which is much more down below our Down Under -land ,Australia.

Three cheers however to the wintry season one has been able to find good use for the overflowing winter coats ,the mufflers and the woolen cardigans on home ground .

I say ‘No thank ,you Sir’ to Santa’s offer of a ride on his wondrous vehicle [snow-mobile?].

Be mobile on one’s mobile-phone rather than move across the earth in such rough and tough conditions and climes.
I shudder to think of Mother Earth’s agonizing plight at the way it has all come about .

What use Copenhagen summits and Inter-Governmental Glacier Conferences ?

God Save Earth…!!!