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  COL SAAB KA PAUDHA   LT COL NOEL ELLIS   30/IX/2022               There is a creeper which spreads like the ‘forest fire’ if it gets the right environment to flourish. When we moved to our new house, this came along in one of the pots.               It kept surviving in the shadows of the hibiscus pots, hidden from our eyes. The extreme climate drew our attention to other plants which needed more care. This one disappeared without us noticing, only to resurface on its own.               I thanked the Almighty and told myself, how could we leave it to fend for itself. Just because most of the plants in hanging pots did not survive, this too was considered gone.               This wine waited for the rains and then started to spread. It creeped its way up looking for sunlight. I just let it be. From one pot, it hopped to another and soon it was spreading like no one’s business, almost turning into a bush.               The creeper started covering other plan

  MUFAT KA CHANDAN   LT COL NOEL ELLIS   29/IX/2022   One feels so proud when the little garden space infront of the house flourishes. Plants saw an extreme change of weather. They bore the cold winter followed by a hot summer and survived. Losses were there but nevertheless.               With the plants arrived the Birds and the Bees. Even Butterflies, Chameleons, Grasshoppers, Snails and Slugs emerged. If all the above came, could ‘humans’ stay far behind.   From a casual introduction on the road, to exchange of pleasantries, followed by regular time wishes in the following days. A gardening tip here and there became normal conversation.               With ‘developed familiarity’ begot ‘contempt’. ‘Colonel Saab’ thore ‘paan ke patte’ dena, ek do ‘Tezpatta’ hi de do, Paneer faarna hai, Nimbu de do. Lemon grass ki chai peeni hai. Do-chaar phool hi de do, pooja ke liye. Hadd ho gayi yaar. Bhai, phool tum khud uga lo itna hi shauk hai to, I would say.   Growi

  OUR FISH POND   LT COL NOEL ELLIS   28/IX/2022               Aquariums have been fascinating me since childhood. At my Grandad’s place, there were many aquariums with different kinds of fish. One could watch them frolicking all day long. How hard we tried but we could never count fish. They swam so fast and mixed with the others.               We could sit and watch bubbles emerging out of a clay fisherman kept at the bottom of the fish tank with a pipe fitted at the wrong place. A frog too would open its mouth to croak and out would come a bubble of air. Watching the fish feeding frenzy was an amazing site.               They also had an outdoor tank full of the most colourful fish one had ever seen. What types were they, one doesn’t remember. The only thing that one can recollect is that some were black, some orange, some spotted, some with funny faces, some with fluffy fins, bigger than their bodies, some kept chasing each other playing fishy games. Hide and seek was their favouri

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  OPERATION LOTUS   LT COL NOEL ELLIS   23/IX/2022               Lotus has always fascinated me. It all started by drawing a ‘convex lens’ in the centre, then drawing identical half petals all around it in kindergarten. Some kids could draw the side petals as mirror images. I just could not.               The actual picture and what we sketched never matched. Using a ‘rubbat’ to erase what we haphazardly drew ended up messing the complete drawing. That violent rubbing would leave the paper transparent. We could even rub a hole through paper, trying to perfect the shape of the lotus flower.               Be that as it may. On our way to Alibaug, we used to come across a ‘lotus pond’ near village Kurul. Big sized pink lotuses would grow. Village folk would sit on the roadside to sell them in bucket loads. Men used inflated truck tubes to harvest the flowers.   In our colony there, we had these huge cemented saucers, about ten feet in diameter. They had purple/blui

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