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...