A Rear Window morning

In the Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window, the protagonist who was healing from a broken leg would peek into the matchbox apartments of his building with a binocular. This morning, the sounds and sights of our society’s flats interested me similarly. Our home may be the most dramatic as Mashi screams loud on phone with her family members.

Some of the windows were decorated with cribs, stars and Christmas finery. It is the morn of Christmas Eve. This isn’t the jubilant Christmas morning that Scrooge saw when he woke up in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol.

 

In other homes, Hindu bhajans and morning ragas were being played. A tulsi [basil] plant was being worshipped with an oil lamp. This plant is to ease stress and repel mosquitoes. After the sun rose, sinister news was put on at this house.

The money plant is another favourite plant of this building. It is to remove financial obstacles and create wealth. However, if socialism isn’t spread eradicating bosses who underpay and overwork employees, the money plants will only make the wealthy wealthier.

In other homes, I saw creepers and climbers tumbling vertically and spreading horizontally. Flowering plants were fewer, or maybe they were yet to bloom.

I heard a man clearing his throat, prayer bells ringing and conch shells blowing. Women were hanging laundry to dry. One of them had a towel around her head as she had taken a bath.

The morning rush to work has thankfully reduced now. I hope it always stays that way.

The trees grew taller than the building, oblivious to the activities of human life. The squirrel adhering to its timetable was crossing over to the other building on tight-rope. Pigeons cooed. Birds chirped. Trees gently shed old leaves.

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https://pixabay.com/photos/money-plants-growth-coins-finance-6692564/: Image by Orlandow from Pixabay 

https://pixabay.com/photos/tulsi-herbal-aromatic-ayurveda-4850177/: Image by shashi javali from Pixabay 

https://pixabay.com/photos/horse-conch-conch-shell-seashell-4905470/: Image by Ray Shrewsberry • Downloads - Likes 👍 from Pixabay 

https://pixabay.com/photos/prayer-bells-bronze-bells-prayer-1910634/: Image by Dean Moriarty from Pixabay 

 

 

 

 

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