quaint&quirky

BY R.K.MISRA It hurts to separate but it is interesting to expect.  Particularly at the cusp. Between the old and the new, between yesterday and tomorrow.   A baby to be born and a child moments old. From antiquity to anticipation ! As 2018 is set to become history, one seeks to look back one last time before crossing the threshold to 2019.There are a legion of pundits to dissect   the politics of the year gone by. I too shall endeavor to do so but at a different   word venue. For now and here, I heed my heart and not my head. The last month of the past year -2018- saw a global extravaganza at one end of the spectrum and a soundless ,simple wedding , at the other. The world swirled in a manna- dipped ,mesmeric daze   at one end while   the other passed on padded feet, the way it was meant to, simple as simple could be. In fact almost a non-event except for the near and dear ones. Nevertheless , it interests me for the simple reason th...

BY   R.K.MISRA How do you describe a garment that heats up half of humanity and cools down the other half ? Poised perilously between male fantasy and feminine felicity ,the panty remains the softest thing between two legs. This piece of attire   has waxed and waned over a hundred years to emerge from a coarse   legging to a soft as satin statement of an iron hard resolve. Along the way it has picked up a matching upper body companion piece and the twain possess the fabled capacity to have long   entombed pharaohs   come alive and run to a Nile on fire, pep-pill in hand ! Nevertheless, it’s shrinking   wafer thin size should in no way be seen as a sign of weakness. Symbolisms do empower. More so at a time when social scientists predict the beginning of   an era of ascendency for womanhood globally. At a more mundane level, the fact of the matter is   that it has also given the feminine of the species a sense of   cosy comfort a...