Home, sweet and sweaty....

At home after one of my longest periods of absence. The kid is finally in sync with India now and is happy. He took to my mother almost immediately and that gives me some free time now.
This place is extremely sultry and dusty now, being at the peak of summer. All the trees look brown with inches of dust on them. Even the usual pre-monsoon showers that used to clean them up are absconding. It seems they visited Bangalore recently.
My customary vists are not yet over. Hope I can finish at least one more before leaving.Mother thinks I hardly care for all those people(mostly her friends) while they dote on me. I care, I know but visiting them all when I hardly get to stay at home is unfair. I've had enough arguments with her on this one and I've given up. Now I go like a poor lamb everywhere, try to avoid eating but mostly end up making my stomach a junkyard and make them all happy.
It's hardly worth going to BCR these days. It reminds me very much of Bangalore with its teeming crowd and the blocked roads. Ever since they gave permit to these private buses(blast RR!), one can hardly cross the road or have a normal conversation in front of the bus-stop. Private buses are all the time honking and their conductors shouting( as if one can't see them!) and it all makes one want to escape from the place immediately.