sunday

Feeding kabootar at Central Park - any ideal Sunday should definitely include an hour of this. Bang in the center of the metropolis, its amazing how stepping into the park is like entering another world - one moment you are in the city that never sleeps - the next, you are steeped in serenity as if skyscrapers and traffic never existed!

Unfortunately, whenever I see a scene like this I am reminded of the scene introducing Amrish Puri in Hum Paanch - The one in which he is offering his morning prayers and feeding pigeons - then suddenly a cloth falls on one of them - and AP cool-ly collects it and passes it to the cook, saying one word - "Nashta".

Chilling, to say the least. That man single handedly terrorised millions of Indians, or at least that's what the 10 year-old me felt whenever we sat down to one of apna DD's Sunday evening movie fixtures. He had that effect on me that any Ramsay Brothers production could only hope to replicate..

Waiting for the chill to end - another walk around the park is long due !