If it is raining cats and dogs, where does that leave the cows?
I am not being too lame(that is what son says whenever I try to make a joke) . I really saw them. 4 of them. Standing on the road and not knowing where to go.
It was one of these rainy late afternoons of Bangalore. And in the middle of the road, stood 4 cows. Not walking and obviously not grazing. Our roads may be potholed but there is no grass on them. Were they standing there to enjoy the cool shower? Did not look like it. They were looking quite glum. Or were they thinking, it is no use. We can not reach home before the rain stops.( They do not live in our street, you see). So let us wait here for the rain to stop. And they had not much to fear, as our area is does not have much traffic.
But traffic is not a big worry for these animals. A few months back, in Ring road, chord road signal, stood a cow. It just stood there. Was it too shocked and forgot the traffic rules. We don't know. The traffic policeman softly and politely led that cow away to the side of the road. (You are not the sole night mare to the traffic police!)
Now about the title, what has the princess who challenged Bhishma in Mahabharatha, got to do with this story, you still ask. Didn't you tell your little kids, "see there amba buchi. Give some grass to it." and showed a cow? I did.
I am not being too lame(that is what son says whenever I try to make a joke) . I really saw them. 4 of them. Standing on the road and not knowing where to go.
It was one of these rainy late afternoons of Bangalore. And in the middle of the road, stood 4 cows. Not walking and obviously not grazing. Our roads may be potholed but there is no grass on them. Were they standing there to enjoy the cool shower? Did not look like it. They were looking quite glum. Or were they thinking, it is no use. We can not reach home before the rain stops.( They do not live in our street, you see). So let us wait here for the rain to stop. And they had not much to fear, as our area is does not have much traffic.
But traffic is not a big worry for these animals. A few months back, in Ring road, chord road signal, stood a cow. It just stood there. Was it too shocked and forgot the traffic rules. We don't know. The traffic policeman softly and politely led that cow away to the side of the road. (You are not the sole night mare to the traffic police!)
Now about the title, what has the princess who challenged Bhishma in Mahabharatha, got to do with this story, you still ask. Didn't you tell your little kids, "see there amba buchi. Give some grass to it." and showed a cow? I did.
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