Button, remember Pippa, our snail friend, who came to live with us for sometime and kept running away again and again to meet up with his friend, Raja, the stray? Raja’s no more. Maybe he’s met up with his other friends Shabby, Puchku and Dushtu somewhere up there! Where the twinkling stars are!
I just opened the window to let in some fresh air after ages and was surprised at how cool the breeze felt. You must be loving it.”
“I must say I do. Bears love the cold.”
“Why?”
“I read a terrible story first thing in the morning as I have a habit of scanning the front page of the TOI.”
Newspapers reported that a just-born baby was thrown inside a dustbin near Kalyan and left to die! Which living species would commit such a heinous act if not “human beings!”
It poured yesterday: It was miraculous that she survived the downpour.
“Thank you. What did your daughters do today?”
“Well, the elder one wanted to watch movies the whole day long. She finally saw two.”