As the winter is about to abate

As the winter is about to abate

As the winter is about to abate, with some weeks still for the spring to knock the gate, the months of December and January have been too harsh for those preferring to have Southern Cities on their itinerary. To keep the record straight these two months were equally appalling/troublesome for some territories in Southern States, with winter chill reaching a scale which had no previous tale. As for the North, the winter was biting and equally biting was the journey which some destined to take towards National Capital and their arrival shrouded in thickening fog and the atmospherics nothing to suggest of a carnival.

I, for one, reached the national capital on a day after two months away with a belief that times would be thick with an appetite for food and with no physical movement days and nights it would be on a entire different firmament. Because the days spent in the states of Odisha, West Bengal and Gujarat were different for the different meals tried on different days and the round the clock activity that ensured strong mental alacrity.
Disposed to the idea that national capital had to be tried given the indisposed nature of tummy that had failed to shine, OLd DElhi Station was accessed with no hopes that coming days would be a feast. It has been over three weeks when the stay has been punctuated with a belief that no matter what the war mongers may engage in the best course would be to not be reclusive and step out as and when the time has come for the idea to be flaunted as a clout.

Here in the national capital, registering alarming departures and arrivals, what has been registered with an alarming pace has been those sporting double chin and their woolen craze. Snuggled in quilts and stepping out wrapped around with innumerable woolen clue, the increasing woolen wrapper on the body suggests the inclement weather and increment lather they have to deploy to get a smooth shave and which could change their fate. Double chin growth showing up as one face and refusing to expand slow shows how disproportionate their range of activities has been to their range of body demands. UNbelievable has been the weather and unbelievable has been the entrapment in leather leading to no wise movement which could unleash top to toe shudder. With unbelievable meals and no unbelievable zeal to fight the flab, the all round personality is what they command and fewer having logistics to be in running band. Running is the least to expect from those who are on meal feast and with cold refusing to hold the intermittent shower of body expansion is the fashion. If cold refused to abate and movements on the roads and rail tracks had a slow gait, the refusal of those having stubble and refusing to shave even when their flames were wrapped with them in a towel showed the mental agility was a luxury and few having the grit to have clean shaven clarity.

Clean shave was the least to expect in the Capital and beyond as most were engaged in viewing the Australian hammering and Sensex dawn. Sensex upped and breathed fire followed with some suggesting some stocks in the 30-share index had to retire. So as sensex rose and tank with those not remotely associated with either sensex and their strings of ex, they too refused to take occasional bath or clear the stubble as they believed this would endear them to those who construct a fable. Constructive was by no means their decision of not taking bath and not shaving the stubble carat as this was their winter-and-yet-to-be-decimated habit. Fling with the sensex and fling with traffic beats was their daily grind,never realising that moisturiser driven and woolen draped appearance would be of no order if no attempt had been made to cut the double chin and double bum which had reached their prime.

In the National Capital and those areas yet to reach annihilation level, Winters would come and go, the surge in road traffic would refuse to slow and yet there would no surety that bodies stretched beyond outer limits and chin bursting to the seams and looking timid won't have a recurring pattern as there are no dearth of those who pass this bulging baton. Time is ripe to reassure the commodities existing in national capital and caught in existential dilemma that the best way to fight cold is to have jaggery and honey and take brisk walk even if it leads to trail shock.