Idiot After Intermediate

It might sound de trop for a title but these are the exact words written just as you enter the oldest and most prestigious tennis ground in the world. The ALL ENGLAND LAWN TENNIS AND CROQUET CLUB for THE WIMBLEDON. This month's recommendation is for a final played here in 2004 between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova. it is important to get a sense of this ground itself before dwelling on the individuals competing. It has a reputation of being one of the most intimidating tennis courts around the globe with its classic British etiquettes of all-white dress codes among other similar things. It has witnessed the all-time best players from Bjorn Borg the teenage prodigy to Andre Agassi arguably the finest striker of the ball, this ground has seen it all.                                                                   ...

 And then there was the sign of early sun fading the mammoth unending dark black night. Although too early to say conclusively and perhaps momentarily but the plateauing of the covid curve in India is visible. The last couple of months in particular and the whole year, in general, have been such devastation. combined with the reoccurring mutations of covid has made us skeptical about hoping for anything better at least in near future. The current ebb in active covid cases should be a boost for us amid such horrendous circumstances but the periodicity of this pandemic makes that dubious. However, life goes on, despite losing close and dear ones life goes on... having said that the cases have dipped still the lockdowns are intact making going out or meeting anyone nearly impossible. During the onslaught of the second wave, Exams were either differed or postponed in some cases even canceled. So it is very hard to escape the boredom equally for both the nerds and the social animals. Ho...

I had prepared a rough draft about what things I will be suggesting for this month for you all to watch read and try but the Deaths, destructions, apathy, misery, struggle, helplessness, lack of oxygen, beds, medicines combined with simultaneous lack of accountability responsibility morality, and empathy do not allow my conscience to write anything other than what's prevailing in the current times. It will be remembered as disastrous bookmarks of our modern India and we the millennia are witnessing this.  A Quick five-minute surfing on social media will make anyone nervous, the volumes of SOS calls for help, the pain of boys and girls grieving for their parents will break anyone's heart. it is nerve-wrenching to watch people of my age struggling to breathe and more so struggling to get their parents an odd hospital bed. I wonder how does one get the courage to bear these tremendous griefs. The parents cremating their young ones goes against the natural order of things.it is per...

 So with the 2nd wave of covid possibly halting the normal/ natural life cycle of us humans as we know, and this hovering speculation of another dreaded lockdown in the country, it's hard to be cheerful amid these dark prospects. I myself am fortunate enough to be occupied with my preparations but many of my friends may not. So for them and anyone in these categories there are certain recommendations (precisely 3) that they could follow to make this boring period a little less grim.    1. Five Feet Apart     Normally I watch a movie, enjoy it, take something out of it (that's rare) and then forget it. That's the SOPs of watching movies right? But with FFA I lost my cycles to the extent that now this movie has a very deep infiltration in my overalls. It may be partly because I have a very close association with someone with similar (similar in nature not perhaps in degree) life-threatening disease and partly maybe because of the perfection with which will a...