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The Beautiful Predator and the Delicate Prey!

September 23, 2026 / queenbee / 0 Comments

*** this incident happened a couple of years ago***

GBee and KBee, my kids extraordinaire (the amount of T.V. they manage to watch without any boredom is extraordinary) were at it again, watching the idiot box, commonly known by mere mortals as T.V.

I wanted them to get away from any screens and play outside. I turned off theT.V. and brought them both, into the verandah. KBee is at an age, where every new particle, item or thing finds itself in his mouth! He is an explorer with a taste, LOL!

Anyways, I was chasing them both playfully in the verandah.

Suddenly, I saw something black fly past me, behind GBee, at probably 2 feet above the ground. I thought it was bat. We see bats on a regular basis near our house and after 7 p.m., I don’t let the kids out for playing, because bats scare me! (Thanks to COVID virus scare.) Someone also told me bats can suck blood, like vampires and draculas, as shown in movies like Van Helsing. I don’t think that is true, but I have no intention of experimenting.

The bats I have come across, love to hang around custard apple trees and we have one in our yard. I see bats daily from 6 p.m. till 10 p.m.

Fearing the worst, I still ran in the direction of the black shape, turns out, it was a beautiful black bird with maroon coloured wings, which swooped from behind GBee and took a spot on the telephone lines!

The bird, I found later is called Greater Coucal, found in India and other Asian countries.

Unknowingly, I began singing a Telugu song, Nee nagumome extraordinary…. (only hummable song from Telugu movie, Cameraman Ganga tho Rambabu!) Since the bird was so stunning and unique, I began singing songs, in its praise, like a poetess!

Anyway, it looked to me like the bird was staring at something on the floor. I followed it’s gaze and lo, behold, I saw a beautiful, jet black butterfly with lemon yellow dots on its wings. A beauty for sure!

On closer inspection, it looked half dead, unable to move or fly.

I put two and two together and came to a conclusion that the bird was the predator and the nearly dead butterfly was the prey.

I carefully picked up the butterfly, showed it to GBee and KBee for closer inspection and appraisal! I placed it gently, on the pillar, hoping that is enough motivation for it to fly away to safety.

The butterfly hardly moved.

GBee, brought a plastic chair, placed it carefully beside the pillar and continued his observations.

The bird, probably wanted to grab it’s prey but GBee was unknowingly protecting the butterfly. The bird was too afraid to be caught. (Poor Coucal didn’t know that GBee, KBee and QB were harmless humans!)

The Coucal kept coming back and forth, unsure if it was allowed near its prey.

Vexed at watching the plight of the Coucal, I brought the kids inside the house, closed the grill door and waited, in silence.

Once we were out of the butterfly ‘s personal space, I waited for 5 minutes, and slowly opened the grill door to check the progress of the situation. The beautiful bird had vanished, as did the delicate butterfly!

That’s when it struck me, that even a bird as beautiful and seemingly harmless one like an Coucal can still be a cruel predator in the eyes of lesser beings like butterflies, worms and the likes!

P.S :

1. Normally, I would have tried to save the life of the butterfly, but as it was already half dead, I decided the best course of action was to let it die.

2. As I was searching the net for images of the beautiful Coucal, I discovered that the male Coucal brings presents for the female, as a part of their flirting, so the butterfly could well have been just a present, than food for the female. Interesting!

3. I am still humming the above mentioned song. I wonder how a director who made Pokiri can make a movie like Liger! What a fall for director Puri Jagannath.

4. Incidentally, I saw another Coucal recently near Malpe Beach House, during our trip to Karnataka, about which I am writing as a part of my September vacation series.

Van Helsing is the first ever movie I had seen of Hugh Jackman. Interestingly, in the said movie, he turns into a werewolf at the end. Years later, he went on to play Wolverine!

P.P.S :

Both the images are from the Google search engine and I take no credit for them.

The Monster!

March 1, 2026 / queenbee / 0 Comments

This little incident happened recently when all the four of us were returning home late, one night.

Mr.Bee was driving, I sat beside him. GBee was seated in the seat behind us and KBee was feeling sleepy, so he sat in my lap. We were hardly 5 minutes away from our home.

Suddenly, he saw the road sign to our right side….

I don’t know in what angle the road sign looked like a monster. It was either the lack of street light or the radium paint on the road sign shining under our headlights or the weird stick figure dropping litter, which must have looked like black liquid leaking from his stretched hand, or, KBee’s over- active imagination…Whatever!

I turned my head to look at what caused the panic….understood that the road sign was the culprit. I pacified the kid saying, it is just a road sign.

That soothed his brain.

He began playing again, with the cars in his hands. (His hands are never empty. He has something or other always in his hands.)

This little incident made me realize that even harmless stuff like a road sign can be a cause of worry for little kids.

Just like the lump of coat hanging from a peg, which dances at night, thanks to the high speed fan, anything can be a monster!

P.S :

1. This particular incident had taken place inside the car, but, drawing the inside of the car is too tedious. So, I have kept it simple. The cartoons are supposed to show KBee and me sitting in the front seat but all the extra details of car would have made the cartoon clustered.

2. While this incident was happening, Mr.Bee was silently driving the car and GBee was shouting at the top of his lungs about his friends who stay nearby, etc. They were not involved in our conversation, so I refrained from drawing them.

3. Turns out KBee is giving me lots of material for my blog posts. Incidentally, both the kiddos name all their cars. We have vroom vroom car, First Asha, MK- 1 (short for Mortal Kombat), Point – 1 and Lighter! (These are some of their favourite cars)

Till the next post, cheerio!

The Anaemic Pomegranate!

February 25, 2026 / queenbee / 0 Comments

One fine afternoon, GBee had yet to return home from school. KBee was busy watching his favourite Blippi in YouTube and I was surfing through the phone, doing my daily dose of mobile-cart shopping!

Gone are the days of window shopping, of hanging out with a bunch of friends in the shops and malls. The latest fad is to do the same in Virtual reality, dropping the goods in the cart, online, when in doubt, just wishlisting them, then forgetting all about it!

While I was stalking the online shelves of Myntra, KBee informed me that he was, indeed, very hungry.

I decided to feed him a Pomegranate.

The hungry baby

That day, three fourth of the fruit was red and a quarter of the pomegranate seeds were white and tiny. ( I think the pomegranate was a little Anemic!)

I didn’t want the kiddo to find fault with the fruit, so I told him that the pomegranate was still a baby and the white seeds were baby seeds! The fruit was in no way spoiled, it just had some colourless seeds.

Extra gyaan to the baby

After telling the kid the pomegranate as good to eat, I went into the kitchen to make myself a hot cuppa tea of apple cranberry flavour.

A little over 10 minutes of time had elapsed. I walked into the hall, with tea in my hand.

I saw KBee standing over the doormat and busy watering it!

KBee told me that he didn’t like the taste of the white pomegranate seeds. Since I told him they were still babies, he decided to plant them and water them.

What better place to plant them, than the turf – look – alike doormat, which resembles freshly mowed grass?

That is what he was doing.

He put all the white seeds on the doormat and began watering them with such enthusiasm.

I was left wondering about how he got the idea, that plants can grow on doormats!

P.S :

1. I have not come across many white pomegranate seeds. It is an acquired taste, astringent!

2. I am not an expert in nutrition but pomegranate without red pigment looks like it is anaemic.

Teaching Telugu – Part 2

November 7, 2025 / queenbee / 0 Comments

So, why is teaching Telugu important for me, to even write a post, not one but two?

Well, for one, I only learnt to read and write Telugu after my seventh birthday. Hindi, had been my first language till then and the language I was most comfortable in, at that time.

I had many Urdu and Hindi speaking friends and that meant, I learnt Hindi more and almost no Telugu.

Summer holidays meant having my own private Telugu classes with my mom. She would borrow my sister’s old Telugu books, roll up her sleeves, rub her palms and start my classes!

Lucky for me, she had always been a patient teacher and never believed in violence. That being said, I always found reasons to not learn Telugu.

Textbook is out = Emergency Evacuation!

It took me nearly 4 years to learn the basics, the Varnamala, since I always ran away. I would hide somewhere, till mom got diverted by some other work or till she forgot that it was our study session! I don’t know why I hated it so much, it probably had something to do with, having to learn it, during summer vacation.

Interestingly, when I finally learnt it, I did it in 15 days flat!

Why?

I had to change schools, thanks to us moving into our own new house. The new school only had seats available in the first language Telugu sections. The section with first language Hindi had no available seats for new students. They were filled up.

With lack of seats looming over my head, I performed brilliantly in my admission test and got into the school.

Studying with sincerity..

Imagine my happiness, when I scored 90 out of 100 in Telugu, in my first quarterly exam at the new school. That was my first brush at hardwork.

I also remember crying tears of happiness (I do that from time to time!) when I scored 88 in my tenth grade public exams in Telugu. The 95 in Maths seemed trivial.

That’s why mother tongue is important. It takes little effort to learn and is as comforting as a mother’s touch. We can emote better in our mother tongue.

My chocolate munchkins, my kiddos, GBee and KBee talk in British English at home, thanks to the very British Peppa Pig.

They also talk in Telugu, but make it sound like British Telugu!

Thanks, but no thanks, Peppa, you Pig!

P.S:

1. The first cartoon shows me running away, leaving behind a thin film of dust. It’s not soul leaving the body! Thank you very much!

2. In Telugu, Vadhuvu is a Bride, Vidhava is a Widow. There is only subtle difference when writing them in Telugu script, but if one word is used instead of another word, it is a blunder. During my initial days of learning Telugu, these two words confused me.

3. Although my cartoons are basic, they take up 2 hours of my time, every time.

Till the next post, cheerio.

Teaching Telugu

November 3, 2025 / queenbee / 1 Comment

* I have the habit of jotting down ideas and writing full length posts in my diary, but some get lost in my indecisions (to post or not to!) This one, was written during the bleak period of COVID and here, it is, making a late appearance on the blog*

It all started with the lock down.

Normally, I wouldn’t have started teaching GBee Telugu, because, firstly he enjoys listening only to English rhymes. Secondly, he told me himself, that he is not a fan of Telugu.

Inspite of that, I tried teaching him Telugu and the results were unsatisfactory.

GBee : Avoiding eye contact and feigning ignorance!

But then, COVID happened and the lock down was implemented, which meant, GBee had nowhere to go, no friends to play with and had very little entertainment except for YouTube and the miserable light emitting diodes called T.V! ( We stay in an independent house and GBee had been an only child at that time)

One fine day, I tried my luck with him again by introducing the first two alphabets in Telugu and GBee didn’t shut me up!

That was most promising outcome, more so than my non-existent career!

This started the chain reaction in me and GBee found himself a Telugu teacher at home. (He must have surrendered, since he had no place to go and no other person to use as a friendly ally)

After a week of daily grilling of all the 52 alphabets (4 alphabets are not in usage now), GBee began recognising Telugu.

Tiring out GBee with repetitions.

GBee caved in….!

He had to accept defeat and even began taking interest in learning the dreaded ‘Italian of the East’!

As the days progressed, one day I asked him to tell me the Varnamala, which I knew GBee has learnt ‘by-heart’.

Instead of reciting all the 52 alphabets of Telugu, GBee only replied me, with the first and last alphabets!

The re-emergence of the Smart Alec!

After almost a fortnight, the kid became too clever for his own good…

I patted my own back, who likes a boring kid? Give me a smart Alec, any day!

P.S:

1. Telugu is called the Italian of the East, since it is rhythmic, just like Italian language. It is a language apt for poetry and songs. Any person with a little knowledge of classical music will vouch for that.

2. Sri Krishnadevaraya, the Tulu Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire had quoted, “Desa Bhashalandu, Telugu lessa!” in his Telugu epic, Amuktamalyada. It translates to, “Among all the languages in our country, Telugu is the best.”

3. On a completely unrelated note, let me give a shout out to Rishabh Shetty and hope he makes a movie on Sri Krishnadevaraya, one of my favourite Emperors, along with Chhatrapathi Shivaji Maharaj and ‘Chhaava’ Chhatrapathi Sambhaji Maharaj.

Whenever I think of Sri Krishnadevaraya, the image that appears before my eyes is that of N.T.Rama Rao, in Mahamantri Thimmarusu. My maamma (paternal grandmother) is the reason I watched this movie while I was still in primary school. Although I don’t remember half of it!

N.T.Rama Rao as Sri Krishnadevaraya

4. The sequel of this post will be up next. TATA everyone!

The Air Blower!

October 29, 2025 / queenbee / 0 Comments

This little incident happened while we were in Munnar and well, I found the incident hilarious and that’s why, here it goes, into my blog….

One morning, as usual, Mr.Bee was happily watching reels on his phone. He sat by the windows, with his feet up the Teepai, all the while looking up reels and laughing out loud.

KBee was curious. He didn’t understand why the windows had to stay open!

Mr.Bee reasoned that, since we are in Munnar and near what looked like a valley, he told KBee that forest air is good. We need fresh air and also the greenery is pleasing.

But, surprise, surprise! KBee understood only part of it.

He closed the windows shut!

He thought his father needed air, so he began blowing air onto his face!

If you or anyone, ever need fresh air, you know what you have to do? Blow some air, windows are over-rated!

Thanks KBee for the valuable lesson!

P.S:

1. I love it when my kids give me valuable material to blog about!

2. I have more cartoons coming up, but right now I am enjoying a piping hot cup of masala chai on this rainy dull cold day.

Tea, anyone?

Lake Kodai and Coaker’s Walk

June 26, 2025 / queenbee / 0 Comments

Day 3 – Part 2:

After our visit to the Guna Caves, it was time for lunch. We had been planning on going for a boat ride at the picturesque Kodai Lake. The boys were eagerly waiting to row the tiny boat on their own!

N dropped us off at the Hotel Carlton, for our afternoon lunch. While we walked towards the hotel, a couple of transgenders demanded money and we had to comply!

The view from the hotel Carlton is to die for.

I had no idea of what I was getting into, until I saw with my own myopic eyes! We sat under the umbrellas in the outdoor seating area, away from the lunch hour rush and felt at peace. I looked at the boats in the distance, which looked tiny and immersed myself in the beauty. I suddenly remembered all the scenic photo frames which I had seen in my childhood and decided that they were nothing compared to the view infront of me.

Since the kids never get past the starters, we ordered veg manchurian and crisp fried dry baby corn manchurian for them. Mr.Bee and I ordered a soulful soup of cream of mushroom, which was out of the world. It is one of the top 10 dishes I ever tasted and that is saying something.

Mr.Bee and I were immediately happy about our choice of hotel. Mr.Bee ordered an orange mocktail and I ordered my only favourite mint Mojito.

Just as the kids were done eating their starters and we filled up our stomachs with soup, it began to drizzle. We thanked our lucky stars for not being stranded on the lake, with a drizzle wetting us up! We saw frantic tourists, rowing towards the boat house.

We waited a bit for the drizzle to subside, but it escalated into a rain. We ran indoors. The interiors too were competing with the scenic exteriors of the hotel. (Good job Hotel Carlton). There was an indoor wooden ramp (made of rose wood, I guess) probably for prams and wheelchairs and KBee began sliding, like it was his personal slide.

The fried rice we ordered came at last and we ate it in a jiffy. It lived up to our expectation. Infact, Mr.Bee wanted us to check out from Pine Borough and stay at hotel Carlton after this one lunch.

GBee wanted to play at the playground but access was only for the hotel guests not for restaurant guests. (He stared longingly at all the slides, see-saw and other playground equipment visible from the upper outdoor dining area)

Pointing at the other guests and talking about them loudly!

When we were finally done, we called N, who picked us up and dropped us off at our next destination, the Coaker’s Walk. We ditched the plan of boating thanks to the unpredictable weather and sudden drop in temperature.

The Coaker’s Walk was fun, because it overlooked the valley and although there was still a curtain of mist hanging infront of eyes, it felt worth the walk.

There were make shift stalls all along the walk and we only bought a tribal couple fridge magnet, got our photo taken and printed (which now hangs on our wall), I bought a pair of ear muffs and Mr.Bee got himself a beanie, because the cold air was beginning to shake us!

There were stalls of sweet corn, chaat and ice cream, but we didn’t buy anything. Here too the Londonesque weather kept us on our toes. The sudden drizzles made us run for shelter under the plastic tarp of a junk jewellery stall.

We decided to return to the room and while we waited for N to pick us up, I saw beautiful trees and demanded Mr.Bee to click some photos for me. All the photos of trees in the post were taken by Mr.Bee.

Trees with flowers in lavender and orange colours and a huge cactus tree.

We were so exhausted from all the site seeing that we returned to room at 5:20 pm. We had a light snack of kodai apples and Dadoo’s dry fruit Laddoo.

Just as we were ready to hit the sack and turn on the room heater, all the 4 of us cuddling together, the hotel admin moved us into a better room.

With a light dinner, we ended our day. I packed up all the loose articles as tomorrow we were moving to another hotel.

P.S:

1. The new room had a bunk bed for kids and 1 queen bed for adults. (The previous room had only 1 king bed and our kids are the movers. They keep moving in circles, which means a king size bed is useless for us.)

2. Inspite of walking all day, the kids still managed to bring out residual energy, to jump from the top bunk to the queen bed! I spent the night, mostly shouting, asking them to stop jumping and sleep! (I was sleepy and tired and Mr.Bee generally falls asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow.)

3. All the shouting I did was useless as they continued to jump and Mr.Bee continued to sleep!

P.P.S:

Our KBee started schooling this academic year and that keeps me on my toes, only my posting schedule will suffer, mostly! Cheerio my friends.

The Devil’s Kitchen and more

June 11, 2025 / queenbee / 0 Comments

Day 3 – Part 1:

I woke up early, (thanks to the church bells in Kodaikanal) decided on what clothes all the four of us need to wear and waited patiently for more than an hour, before waking up the sleepy trio, the boys.

After the kids were ready, they played in the open area outside our room, which was as slopy as a park slide. I warned them against going far away, since it was hilly and I was sure there were rattle snakes in the area. (The rattling sound I heard at regular intervals among mounds covered with grass might have been anything, but better safe than sorry) KBee found some tissues, made a paper ball with it. They rolled the paper ball downhill, taking turns and had fun. I spent the time recording their activities.

We had our breakfast at the hotel itself. I had bread and jam. Kids had dosa, because they are part of the Dosa Fan Club! Mr.Bee had milk bread with coffee. We got into our ‘car for the week’, ertigo and off we went in the cool breeze!

Our first stop was Fairy Waterfalls. It had a small flow of water, it being summer and all. We had to park the car somewhere nearby, go through a gate, (as if entering private property) to access the waterfalls. It was peaceful place, only two other people were admiring the nature and sadly we saw plastic bottles inside the lake too. Some idiots never learn!

Summer Special – itsy bitsy, Fairy Waterfalls!

See the pale rainbow at the bottom of the waterfalls? We were mesmerised looking at it. As we were enjoying the moment in nature, we heard a horse neighing violently. I don’t know about the kids, but that scared me. We found a white horse ahead and it was jumping up and down, neighing repeatedly. We returned to our car after taking selfies and KBee was surprised to see a white horse. He only saw dark horses in T.V, white horse was a novelty.

Later, we went to the Echo point. To reach the point, we have to go through an enclosed pathway, with 100 something stalls of chocolates, bags, soveneirs on either side of it . It’s like entering a tunnel of goodies! It was congested with human traffic and we walked at a medium pace, to let KBee catch up. Thanks to the heavy mist that day, we couldn’t see the valley properly. We spent hardly 10 minutes at the point and returned to our car. We also met a group of school going girls who had a boom box with them and they played some songs while dancing and shouting all the way to the echo point. At last, I could catch one song, “peelings” song from Pushpa2.

Our next stop was Pillar Rock Flower Garden. Here too, we waited a while for the mist to clear so that we could look at the beautiful Pillar Rocks. We had a brief glimpse of the magnificent Pillar Rocks, took a few selfies and exited.

Pillar Rocks are not visible in the background because of the heavy mist

We made a brief stop here for our snacks, which were salted raw mango, boiled kabuli chana chat, fruit salad and rose flavoured soda. (lemon soda was unavailable!) I also bought Kodai Apples for our snack, for later in the room.

At every viewpoint, we had parking issues, so our driver N would park it far ahead and we spent most of the day, walking. Even KBee tried his best.

We reached the highlight of the day, the Guna Caves or the Devil’s Kitchen. The caves got the alternate name because the Tamil movie Guna starring Kamal Hasan had been shot here. Even the Malayalam movie Manjummel Boys was shot here which is based on a true story. The Guna caves is blocked now, thanks to people getting lost inside them. As per records, 16 people have disappeared inside the caves, in different incidents.

Anyway, you can only imagine how it felt looking at the nature, where the tree roots look magnificent than the tree itself! (I can write a whole post about this one location)

No pic can do justice to the beautiful Guna Caves – Courtesy: Google

GBee, wanted to climb to the top most point of the roots, which was more than 30m in heightfrom the pathway. There was also clay everywhere, so I warned him against it, but Mr.Bee didn’t like us stopping the kid. So both of them climbed towards the tree to the top, while KBee and I waited for them at the bottom. Interestingly, we had to run around the whole park thanks to the monkeys which kept coming to us, to sniff if we had any snacks with us. At one point, I threw a cookie away, to divert the d*** monkey. Later I also threw away a half eaten guava! (We thought we had fooled the monkeys, because we hid our snacks, but they still managed to find us, out of all the hundreds of tourists!)

Monkey Menace!

Since it was a weekend, the people at each tourist spot were in hundreds! What did we do next…? Read the ‘part 2’ post, which will be up soon.

P.S:

1. During the peak season, we will have to register our car or cab or any vehicle beforehand. They allow only fixed number of vehicles.

2. By the time we reached Guna Caves it was hardly time for lunch, but the climate was very cold. We bought the kids cute ear muffs at the Pillar Rocks Flower Garden, to keep the cool air out of their ears. There are also many YouTube videos which show the Guna Caves and feel free to watch them.

3. When travelling, it is better to always keep snacks and fruits handy to avoid hunger pangs. That’s what we did. We had cookies and guava at Guna Caves. We would have prefered eating away from the keen eyes of the monkeys, but the driver N banned us from eating anything inside the car. He kept warning the kids to remove the shoes as soon as we entered the car. He had his reasons.

Till the next post, Cheerio!!

Home Alone – The Queen Bee version

April 5, 2025 / queenbee / 0 Comments

Long ago when I was busy with my job, designing super passages and under tunnels, leading a carefree life, my family had to travel. I excused myself from the trip and stayed back alone at home. I didn’t want to miss out on the fun at my office.

Being in ‘the’ design team in our office was a heaven. It was like being in a girls gang. 6 of us, under the guidance of the most cool headed team leader, our AGM. Those were the days. Since we had the most technical knowledge, due to our area of work, there was always someone who needed our help! We were always busy and had most fun during breaks, being in the same age bracket also helped! We even celebrated each others birthdays with much fan fare, cake cuttings and gift givings. It was the golden period in the technical division.

It is rare to find such camaraderie in civil engineering companies, because, we either have above 65 year old consulting employes or 20 something employees, fresh out of engineering colleges. That is because civil engineering needs experienced people to guide the young blood and thanks to software boom, most people avoid civil, it being a job which also includes site visits. (Personally, I love visiting the construction sites and looking at our designs in their magnitude.)

Anyway, it all comes down to me staying alone at home for 2 days and 2 nights! Thankfully, I spent the days in office, doing the work I love in the company of the team that I admired, so that’s that. But once I returned home, I was all alone, like Kevin McCallister, except there was no imminent danger of rogues and thieves entering the flat, then!

While I planned on watching my favourite TV shows and eating my dinner in a jiffy, the tough part was sleeping alone in the flat!

As soon as Mrs.G saw that I had parked my Mahindra Flyte in the cellar, she gave me probably 5 minutes to fresh up and knocked my door.

She meant well….

Mrs.G asked me if I wanted to eat something. She even asked me what I had in mind. I gave her a vague answer, as I really had no idea what I wanted to make for dinner. I didn’t intend to inconvenience her.

I wanted to eat samosa cutlet chaat, pani puri and even a pizza. But I refrained from telling her all that. I don’t remember what I cooked for myself, but Mrs.G returned to give me a bowl of freshly made potato fry and won my heart and stomach too!

That hit the spot. I slept well, thanks to a full stomach.

Even the clothes hanging from the peg, which made a ghostly shape didn’t scare me, one bit!

Even the rhythmic sound of anklets and whispers around me, could hardly stop my droopy eyes from closing!

“Good night, to you too” , I whispered in response!

P.S:

1. Who doesn’t like a bowl of potato fry!

2. Although I don’t celebrate Christmas, December 25th is not complete without watching the handsome and naughty Kevin McCallister being left home, alone! White Christmas is a dream…

3. Chandler Bing is one of my favourite characters, which inspired the dialogue in my third cartoon.

Till the next post, cheerio!

The Respectful Hindu!

February 4, 2025 / queenbee / 0 Comments

Although the post title seems political, I couldn’t come up with anything better suited for this post!

Anyway, like a true Blue Desi parent, I was teaching KBee about how we, as Hindus, are into praying Nature. Plants, some animals, books, planets and stars are all part of the vast group revered by the Hindus.

This is how my training went….!

Day 1: The idol worshipping…..

Another day, during a visit to the temple: Worshipping the Cow, which is helpful to humans and giver of boons, the Kamadhenu.

And then one day when I was busy talking on the cell with Mr.Bee about some random stuff, I witnessed a funny and memorable incident! (I was at my parents’ place with both the kiddos)

KBee’s heart is in the right place. Animals are revered by us, but I hadn’t specified which all! Technically, he isn’t wrong!

Interestingly, he made me think. If at all any Hindu deity wanted an animal companion, who would choose a dinosaur? Hmm, probably a Goddess as dynamic and as powerful as Durga!

What do you say?

P.S:

1. Lord Ganesh had a Mouse, Lord Karthikeya used a peacock as a mode of transport. Lord Vishnu had Garuda(the king of birds), Goddess Durga was partial to the Indian National Animal, a Tiger!

2. GBee and KBee are fanatics of 🦕 dinosaurs. KBee can watch the same video of Blippi and his dinosaur adventure, N number of times, every single day. No wonder he gave his salutations to the T- Rex. The Triceratops toy that KBee has is his absolute favourite toy.

3. Recently Mr.Bee showed the kiddos the Jurassic World movie. Interestingly, both of them felt that the Earth, does not need any such dangerous dinosaurs after all..!

4. Happy Ratha Saptami to all my readers. I am attaching a Rangoli I made for the occasion.

Cheerio, till the next post…bubye.

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