Quo Vadis?

  This post is part of the Chennai Bloggers Club's CBC VIBGYOR BLOG TAG 2 where some of us will write a post on the colours of VIBGYOR each day starting 1st of May to the 7th of May, 2020. The colour theme for today's post is RED. Red is bold, bright, fiery and basic. Red is powerful even a big train stops before a small red light or a dupatta! Red is the name of an awful movie (subjective) Red is the colour of blood. Red oxide was used as floor tiling for many years before mosaic took over. Red is anger. Red is also blushing from passion & / love! Red apples are more common than their green cousins, so also with capsicums Red is fire. Red is end of the colour spectrum and that means the end of this blog series! All images are courtesy Google and belong to the respective owners. p.s. remember this ad?

This post is part of the Chennai Bloggers Club's CBC VIBGYOR BLOG TAG 2 where some of us will write a post on the colours of VIBGYOR each day starting 1st of May to the 7th of May, 2020. The colour theme for today's post is ORANGE.                                   In case you wondered Wikipedia puts to rest the question, the colour was named after the fruit! Apparently the word saffron predates English as the name of the colour as saffron (spice) was used back in the early ages. The colour was / is used by Christianity, Buddhism and Jainism. Orange is a colour that is pleasing and it denotes warmth. The saffron band in the Indian Tricolour represents courage and sacrifice.   In my childhood one of my favourite ads was for an orange coloured drink that personally was cooler than Fanta. After all it was the Zing thing. I do not recollect many clothes that are from...

This post is part of the Chennai Bloggers Club's CBC VIBGYOR BLOG TAG 2 where some of us will write a post on the colours of VIBGYOR each day starting 1st of May to the 7th of May, 2020. The colour theme for today's post is YELLOW. If you have been reading my other posts in this series you will know that was partial to Yellow in school and then I expanded my views and preferences.                           Yellow to me is all about the sun. Though it may not be a primary colour, the sun is primary and essential to life. Our lives revolve around the sun as much as the earth revolves around it. The next thought that comes to mind after the sun is the sun flower and a lovely hymn that is connected to it. For over a decade Chennai bleeds Yellow during the IPL though otherwise they bleed Blue. When the CSK team chose the colour and the name, I was one of the skeptics because there was one sect that op...

This post is part of the Chennai Bloggers Club's CBC VIBGYOR BLOG TAG 2 where some of us will write a post on the colours of VIBGYOR each day starting 1st of May to the 7th of May, 2020. The colour theme for today's post is GREEN. To be quite honest green was not a colour that I liked in my younger days and then I grew up. In the millennium year one song happened in an epic movie that opened my eyes to this beautiful colour. The song begins with green and goes on to many more colours but the song is named green and shows how green signifies new beginnings. Green is the colour of nature and there is something soothing about it. Many childhood days have been spent looking at the passing fields and meadows from the train windows and as you grow and realize that these are the sources of our food the respect for the green fields grew in the mind. On the cricket field if we may bleed blue we are thrilled if the Men in Blue maintain their perfect record in ...

This post is part of the Chennai Bloggers Club's CBC VIBGYOR BLOG TAG 2 where some of us will write a post on the colours of VIBGYOR each day starting 1st of May to the 7th of May, 2020. The colour theme for today's post is BLUE. Blue is an interesting colour and I have many stories with Blue. Let me begin with school, for many years I belonged to the Yellow house and I was partial to the colour till I came to higher secondary where I passed out as the Asst House Captain of the Blue House, since then that colour became my default colour of choice. School was on the Marina and exam times we could see the horizon where the sky and the sea met in vivid shades of blue. I remember when I used to buy aquamarine Blue for letter writing and that kind of was my signature style for some time till I grew out of fountain pens. School was the time when my music preference was dominated by the King of Pop. The King used contemporary R&B, (Rhythm & Blues) to sweep ...

This post is part of the Chennai Bloggers Club's CBC VIBGYOR BLOG TAG 2 where some of us will write a post on the colours of VIBGYOR each day starting 1st of May to the 7th of May, 2020. The colour theme for today's post is INDIGO. If you have read my first post yesterday you will know that I have an uneasy relationship with colours and I keep it very simple when it comes to colours. So when the colour Indigo came up the first thing that struck me was a story that we read in school in probably the Non detail text. The story is the Postmaster, those who can make the connect, no matter how insignificant it may sound to you, congratulations to you. This classic by Rabindranath Tagore, (read it if you haven’t already or cannot remember it) talks about an Indigo factory. Somehow this stuck to my head till today, as I was looking up the colour Indigo, Wiki tells me it is a dye that comes from a plant that has been cultivated from ancient times. India has a long connect...

I have been meaning to get out of the prolonged absence from my blog. So when CBC came up with this prompt I decided to use this opportunity. Then it hit me! This is a colour related series and for someone who is colour challenged, I wondered if I was biting off too much than I can chew! So here goes this is the Vibgyor series and it starts with Violet. Colours for me are basic so simple names are enough to understand what I am seeing.  So Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, Brown, Black, Grey, White, Orange and Violet would be almost all the colours that I will understand.  Cyan, Fuchsia, Magenta, Mauve, Amber, Ochre and some more made me look up a dictionary back then, nowadays I Google it. I have heard people being named Violet, so I wondered why would anyone name after a colour, if not named for the colour and named for a flower, why would anyone go for this flower instead of the popular Rose or Jasmine? I will stop with these as my knowledge of flowers are ...

This post has been published as a part of 'The CBC Tablog - 2.' Read previous post by Lakshmi Venkatraman  here ... If you do not know about CBC, Chennai Bloggers Club is simply the Most Happening Blogging Community of namma Chennai. This tablog is a group blogging activity where each blogger posts on one topic and passes the tag to the next. So here goes... One aspect I want to change in Chennai? The list of changes can be long but I will stop with one phrase that should cover a few, “civic sense”. So what then is civic sense? It can be    A sense of taking pride in Chennai  and keeping it clean    A sense of awareness that spitting or defecating in public is a nuisance and can be extremely disrespectful to others    A sense of community living where sweeping ones garbage into the neighbour’s courtyard is avoided    A sense of ownership of the utilities provided for community good and protecting and preserving ...

This post is another CBC tag effort, a part of :                   and a big Thank You to Aarti who tagged me. Aarti blogs at Tapestry of Words and is a contradiction of sorts. You can learn more about her by visiting her page.     If you are still wondering about the CBC, The Chennai Bloggers is a closed group of bloggers of varied interests, many of whom are living in Chennai and includes those who are outside Chennai but still belong here. If you are a blogger from Chennai and are not in the CBC, you are missing something.   Now for the tag, my life in six words can be summed up thus:                                                 "He IS still working o...

I have been nominated for a Liebster Award!! I have not got these nominations before and so I was surprised that folks like my blog. Thank You Himani Agarwal for stopping by and giving me a vote of confidence. [Do not like the PINK colour though : ( ] Himani blogs at http://itjusthappenandthen.blogspot.in/ Some Googling threw up this “ The Liebster Blog Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. “ Liebster ” is German for “ favorite ”. This award is the favorite blog award then . ” These awards mandate that you cannot keep it and are meant to be shared. The award is but a chain mail, but it never hurts to share some appreciation and affirmation which is wanted dearly by everyone. So this is my affirmation and appreciation and in the spirit of this mail here are the rules: - a. Post 11 Things about yourself b. Answer 11 questions from nominator c. Choose 11 deserving bloggers and link them in your post d. Set 11 questions...