Fear of Death-Part I

       We mortals are sure to have one fear – the fear of Death. It is more visible in some, while many others have been able to successfully conceal it behind a cheerful countenance.

       Padma was a sensitive child, more sensitive than normal children. She realized she had this fear much earlier than other children of her age did.

       ‘I don’t want to read this comic’, 5- year- old Padma said in a firm voice to her parents. She was recently introduced to the world of Amar Chitra Katha comics. As a part of her socialization, her parents bought her a comic containing that part of the epic, ‘Mahabharata’ which covered the Battle of Kurukshetra. Children of her age normally were fond of battles, which depicted vivid pictures of mace and bow- and- arrow fights. ‘Why?’, asked her bewildered parents.

Reality is not so Scary

                   The presence of the moon around us is a source of happiness, isn’t it? Padma was a big fan of both the Sea and the Moon.

                   In her childhood, it was fairly common for her to watch the moonlight  fall on the Bay of Bengal and think of moonlight songs like  ‘Lahiri lahiri lahirilo’.

Does this pic not remind us about songs on the Moon? I remember 'Lahiri  lahiri' and the legendary cinematographer Marcus Bartley