through a glass, darkly

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsThe sky looks ok, the world is spinning just right. But otherwise it's the end of the world as we know it. We're floundering like Alice in Blunderland and the best part about it is that we don't even know it yet. Did you say it's a crazy world? Crazy doesn't even begin to describe what's going on.
In the filthy inlet of Mahim creek in Mumbai, salt water turns sweet, triggering off a chain reaction among the gods. Everyone's joining in the party, with idols in north india guzzling down milk, and saints smiling from the walls in surat. And we lap it up hungrily, saying, please sir, can we have some more?
And we get more than we asked for. It only gets curioser and curioser.
Prince, freshly rescued from his hell hole, comes to town to meet a couple of arbitararily chosen film stars and we smile benignly.
"We're all mad here," says the Cat in Alice in Wonderland. Couldn't agree more.
We live in interesting times indeed, as the chinese curse goes. When the debates over KANK ring louder than the protests against the quotas in educational institutes. When people tear their hair and lose sleep over the fact that a karan johar can make exactly the kind of film he wants, with the biggest stars in the industry, engender all those heated disussions among people at cookie cutter moulded coffee shops and prosaic water coolers and still walk away with a commercial hit, in spite of all their criticism.
When a having a beard could get you in a hairy situation on a plane.
And somewhere amidst the white noise of that chaos, Pluto quietly slips off the planetary orbit.
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't...You see?" says Alice. Well, we're in the thick of it.
It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.



About the AuthorVrushali Haldipur A mini-bite of the Big Apple, with fries to go....Read Morefirst published:September 08, 2006, 14:52 ISTlast updated:September 08, 2006, 14:52 IST
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