chr(c)tr 2: the conversing grannies

13Jan09

they are straight out of the pages of shirshendu (a bengali writer)… 

both above 70… travelling in a ring road bus (delhi)… one of the longest routes, if not the longest route among delhi buses… sitting together and conversing about everything from price of onions to shahrukh khan taking off clothes to new bride in the family… and all that at the top of their voice since their hearing abilities have become weak… so even above the great roar of old dtc (delhi transport corp) buses, the whole bus is resounding with this conversation… the grannies, of course, care very little (or perhaps not even aware) about all these strangers listening to their stories… the co-passangers’ moods range from amused to annoyed…

they were also discussing how small the puja space is in the new flat one of their grandson (perhaps of both) has shifted to, and how difficult it was to sit there and perform the ‘griha-prabesh’ (entering-the-house) rituals … the flat, however, is far larger than the last one…

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