“I have been
following your blog” says Deepa from Baroda. “I find these thoughts and ideas
have a resonance in my life as well. It’s uncanny.”
“It’s a blog
that belongs to all of us. In our humanness, we are all similar” I reply.
It is now one month since I started writing a blog.
Most readers
emailed/texted from all over the world and encouraged me to write. I am
extremely grateful to you all.
“Just
another foodie blog?” asked a scholarly friend when I mentioned the title
‘Lemon and fresh mint’.
“Not really”
I said to him “It is about ordinary people like you and me who do ordinary
things. I wanted to capture these ordinary moments.”
A few years
ago some students had wanted me to start blogging.
“Madam, we miss those good old college days”
they said. “If you write, it would feel like we are together in the classroom
again.” One of them even presented me with a book about writing!
However, I
was not ready for writing a blog then. I thought blogging was for all those
people who had highly interesting lives.
Then, one
day, our grandmother turned hundred. Her life was simple and ordinary. But to
be hundred was interesting. So I wrote my first blog post about her.
There were
too many ideas bubbling in my mind and this blog provided a platform to publish
them.
There is
something about this blog which makes me park my bottom in one
place every day for a while and makes me write. I am like the silly bird who sings instead of picking grain.
Although this
is a low-profile blog, it is surprising to know that people are reading it in
Serbia and Brunei.
Do you think
it has something to do with the black cats that laze on our doorstep every day?
(In the picture above is Blackberry - a wild cat who has adopted us. Like Winnie the Pooh, he has "very little brain" and a lot of positive energy.)
