Its been long since I have written something on my blog, the reason, the stories just stopped coming to me from my chilhood. Probably, because I stopped visitimg my stories or caught up with grown up issues. Anyway, I remember when I used to go to my tution class after school, I would find coins on the way. This would happen once a month and sometimes thrice a month. And I would collect as much as a rupee in coins to 50 paise. I was so thrilled and I used to be very observant and would look in detail on the road while going and coming back from tutions. This was my personal secret and I enjoyed that money during my recess at school. I never told anyone, for the fear of not finding them, a superstition(not that i was sure if the word existed in my vocabulary). And, later when I grew up I found out that there is a community, when they take their dead people to cremation ground they throw small coins from the house till cremation place. It was their custom and could never find a reson of them doing so. Please if you readers have any insight on this practise, it will solve my mystery. Was I wrong in using that money, although I was not aware of its true emergence. But, I did have that little secret in my childhood. That was so personal and the pleasure it gave me mentally and in kind since that was my money with which I could buy goodies during recess and after school. It also taught me to observe and see things in detail. This habit has helped me alot in my creative work. Just, yesterday when I was coming back from my shoot I was obersving things around me. When I clicked a picture on the road, my driver said I quote "maine aap ko dekha hai aap kuch na kuch dekhte rehtey hai". This brought memories of my childhood.
