On 16 of February 2011 there was a holiday, since it was the festival of "Id". I played with my sister and her friends. We played badminton first. After that we got found a few seeds and put them in a pot that was abandoned. We also put leaves. Then we put a lot of water into the pot and then mixed it. While we had gone to the jogging track my friend stayed back. Once we came back my friend told me that while we had gone a cat had come smashed the pot and ran away.
I wrote this in May 2026 and then left it sitting in my drafts for six weeks. Partly because it feels more personal than what I usually put online. Partly because writing honestly about uncertainty is uncomfortable when most of us are busy performing certainty. And partly because I wasn’t entirely sure I believed all of it yet. I’m still not sure. But perhaps that’s the point. So, here goes. ----- May 2026 Two years ago, I moved back to India. I hadn't planned on it. In fact, if you'd told me in 2020, when I packed my bags and left Bangalore for France, that I'd be back in four years, I'd have laughed it off as a failure of imagination. The plan had always been to stay abroad and build a career in Europe. The universe, well, had other plans. Four years abroad had been, by most measures, a good run. Two years in France at Sciences Po, a well-paid summer internship in Paris, the youngest funded researcher on a research project between Princeton, Columbi...
Wonder what the cat had against the pot???? Now what will become of the seeds and the leaves?
ReplyDeletebut million dollar question is - why did the friend not shoo the cat away?
ReplyDeleteDear Sanjith,
ReplyDeleteI have the same question as the two before me.
I am sorry, but I am quite shocked that your friend did not do anything or shoo the cat away.
Seems to me, like the cat was incorrectly pointed fingers at!!!!
Since you are an animal lover, you should stand up for the cat & get to the bottom of this "cat & the pot" issue.
God Bless
Chikks