Enjoy Episode 2 of Santosh Bakaya’s ever popular Morning Meanderings Season 4 – your favourite morning read with your morning coffee! ☕ Heartwarming episodes that will make your Sunday mornings extra special! ☀️📆 🎉
Today was a beautiful day, streaked with rain clouds and the earth was flaunting some rain puddles, where toads splashed merrily, croaking their joy and a lapwing took dainty steps, like a long-legged fashionista, aware of her mesmerizing aura.
A wizened old man, sat on a chair outside a tea-shop, slowly sipping tea when the barking of dogs fell into his ears. Right in front of him walked a bony man with a sunken chest, hair all disheveled, stopping now and then, almost bending over, clutching his stomach, and coughing up a morsel of his lung.
Just a little distance away from the tea shop lounged a troika of intimidating-looking dogs in one of the rain puddles.
As an old woman, in her late seventies, leaning on a walking stick hobbled on, the terrible threesome somehow felt threatened and let loose a litany of woofs. One sprung up from his watery bed and started growling at her walking stick, another went a little further and tried to snatch it from her.
Morning Meanderings Season 4 – the weekly column by Santosh Bakaya
The coughing man looked around helplessly, trying in vain to stop them. The old man, sipping tea, heard her helpless yells and, depositing his teacup on the wobbly stool, walked in her direction and shooed away the dogs.
The woman thanked him profusely. I walked on, immensely happy.
But I looked back out of curiosity and was delighted to find both sitting outside the tea- shop, sipping tea and exchanging notes about the vicissitudes of the seven decades of their lives, chuckling and growing wistful every minute.
When I came back from my two rounds, I was surprised to see they were still there, animatedly talking to each other. I carried the scene back home, permanently etched in my heart.
Dr Santosh Bakaya is the author of three mystery novels for young adults, and a book of essays titled Flights From My Terrace, which was recently published as an e-book on Smashwords. Her poetic biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Ballad Of Bapu has been published by Vitasta Publishers, Delhi, India in May 2015 and has been receiving rave reviews from everywhere. Although a Political theorist, with a doctorate in political theory, it is literature which has been her first love. She was awarded the Reuel international award for language and literature 2014 for her long poem Oh Hark!, which forms part of the Significant Anthology. Many of her poems have figured in the highly commended category in Destiny Poets, a UK based website and many are part of international anthologies. Right now, she is giving the final touches to her satirical novel, tentatively titled Sanakpur Shenanigans.
All Posts of Santosh Bakaya
Hope you enjoyed reading...
... we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading and supporting our creative, informative and analytical posts than ever before. And yes, we are firmly set on the path we chose when we started... our twin magazines Learning and Creativity and Silhouette Magazine (LnC-Silhouette) will be accessible to all, across the world.
We are editorially independent, not funded, supported or influenced by investors or agencies. We try to keep our content easily readable in an undisturbed interface, not swamped by advertisements and pop-ups. Our mission is to provide a platform you can call your own creative outlet and everyone from renowned authors and critics to budding bloggers, artists, teen writers and kids love to build their own space here and share with the world.
Got a poem, story, musing or painting you would like to share with the world? Send your creative writings and expressions to editor@learningandcreativity.com
Learning and Creativity publishes articles, stories, poems, reviews, and other literary works, artworks, photographs and other publishable material contributed by writers, artists and photographers as a friendly gesture. The opinions shared by the writers, artists and photographers are their personal opinion and does not reflect the opinion of Learning and Creativity- emagazine. Images used in the posts (not including those from Learning and Creativity's own photo archives) have been procured from the contributors themselves, public forums, social networking sites, publicity releases, free photo sites such as Pixabay, Pexels, Morguefile, etc and Wikimedia Creative Commons. Please inform us if any of the images used here are copyrighted, we will pull those images down.
