Wandering scribbler..

I used to be a bit scared of butterflies. There i said it. This is one of the most embarrassing facts of my life... I can actually be blackmailed with this.!  I know butterflies are usually referred to as fragile and beautiful (only the colored ones) creatures but i used to be hell scared of the big black colored butterflies which always darted towards me. I am more or less over this "phobia" now but i still don't like to be in the same room with a butterfly! I'm okay with spiders,lizards,cockroaches(not when they fly towards me),rats,snakes and all the pesky creatures people are usually scared of. But somehow i cant seem to make peace with the (err..) butterflies.  In Bengali there's this joke that if a butterfly sits on you,you might get married soon. I don't know how that is possible but whenever a butterfly landed on me, i went hyper and ran here and there and hid myself somewhere,my dadi and mummy joked that maybe it means I'll get married so...

There was a slum at the back of my house where the adi Ganga flows, the people living there were more or less harmless,though their children used to sneak in sometimes to steal bael (stone apple) and other fruits from my garden,but overall they were quite harmless... Now for the construction of the metro track these people where asked to vacate that area and allocated some other area...  For about two years that area had remained empty and the bank of the Adi Ganga looked really beautiful from our window, till one evening we heard some strange noises and then we noticed some men with bamboo sticks making tent like structures and overnight they made tent like houses..By the next few days we found people carrying rolls of bedding and other possessions with them like pots,cooking supplies and including a child or two clinging on to them..Then after a month they installed dish TV in their homes...! Anyway these people are now happily residing behind our house and have made the...