The eclipse

 Checked just now. The total solar eclipse has almost half reached its path of totality. Called the Great American Eclipse (how America loves to own even a celestial phenomenon and, moreover, relate it to the (in)dubitable American Dream), in my opinion, it tells us a lot about the (mental) wealth (hey, not health, though the weird behaviours of (m)any awesome Americans would justify this moniker) of nations.

America, for example, has owned it up as if it is a Disney Show up there! Moreover, they  have managed to make in to an Event! Hotel-full of guests are ooh-aah-ing all along! There have been a week full of advisories regarding traffic jams, and eatable jams, too, as given the onslaught of spectacle watchers, there was fear-mongering regarding food scarcity, not to forget the 'special' sunglasses which, incidentally, every other kid could once make. The digitisation, and its woes, more than wonders, as camera rolls are now a thing of the past! Hope the ghettoised Indian community there, who celebrate every  'native' festival with lots of fanfare, make this, too, with a real Indian flavour.

Well, India is not on the famous path of totality. If it were to be, there would have been the great Indian circus, that is proving beyond doubt  that we simultaneously  live in multiple eras and centuries. Well, I look at the traditional rituals as sheer poetry that has now lost its focus. The traditional rituals could be imagined to prove the impulsive emotional response to phenomena beyond routine.

A solar eclipse indeed is one such. Imagine total night like darkness during the day, even if just for five minutes. Despite the light years of distances among the sun, the moon, and the earth, this 'darkness at day'  or the sun imitating the crescent moon look is indeed an invite to imagination, right? The media circus would end tomorrow, and yet the corona (this one is lovable, mind you!) would continue to haunt the imagery till the next total solar eclipse happens. Who knows how technology would then allow us to 'live' it! Momento Mori! Experience it till it lives!

Pratima@ Given the blazing hot summer, these days, i water plants late at night, circa 10 p.m. so that the roots relish the cool drink, thunda, thunda, cool, cool. Today I chose not to as I am not sure of  the indirect changes to the photosynthesis in absence of the sun every which way. Tomorrow they can guzzle the gurgling  glassful very early in the morning.