PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
It never felt quite okay to peep into the well near my home, that triangular vessel of mystery, because anytime, I was told, the arms of an octopus residing there could strangle me, taking me with it, into the depths of darkness. Certainly, that was the longest-living nightmare that they had managed to inculcate! The crocodile in the black waters of the washing machine was short-lived comparatively! Blue sky, for me, didn’t hold just the white, puffy clouds or the birds up there! Not when Dubai or London was up there. Why else board an airplane? That particular teacher in school, who had dark rings around her eyes evoked fear in me; dark circles meant no sleep. Could she be really awake all night? Today, I look at myself, and I am amazed at how life chooses to answer some doubts-and wish they never arose in others now! Ironic, isn’t it? Definitely, children were born when that wedding knot/chain was tied. Why did some people not become parents, then? Surely, the knot should be tightene...