lazy sunday

Its yet another lazy sunday at home. The morning began with a pot of lady grey, tickling D to get him out of the bed and a conference around the dining table on the importance (or otherwise) of the institution of marriage. This was entirely unplanned and a rather vigorous mental exercise for a sunday morning.
We have since moved on to other controversial issues. Just saw this week's We the People on NDTV where political correctness within history was being debated. What a touchy bunch of people we are! We take everything to heart and are over sensitive to the mildest of affronts. Clearly, there is too much time on hands that people actually think and worry over the appropriateness of the name of a movie or the publishing of some obscure historian's book. Where is our focus, and is it not time we directed it to more constructive issues?

Looks to me like every political party in India has appointed someone or the other with the title of 'Controversy Originator and Coordinator'. This Mr/Ms COC ensures anything and everything that can be politicised must be afforded the honour. Hence, there is no dearth of masala, and if at any point the COCs fail to deliver, the media is always there to fill in the gaps.
We soon decided that this is too much serious thinking for a lazy sunday. At the micro level, its a warm, dull day, we are planning to watch an old hindi comedy on dvd and the trees outside are still leafless but somehow look happier. An old hindi song is playing in my head...

thoda hai thode ki zaroorat hai

zindagi phir bhi khoobsoorat hai