A Sunday Siesta

Sunday siestas, though a welcome break, bring back a lot of old memories.

Today after a rather heavy brunch and doing a quick read of the newspapers, I turned in, into the bed watching some stupid dance competition on television.

God knows when I fell asleep.

And I drifted into my childhood in my dreams. I was in bed at home, again a Sunday afternoon. The golden rays of the sun filtered in from the west. Papa was struggling to wake me up - telling me that Mom was almost done with Halwa and tea. The sweet fragrant smell of Halwa was wafting in the air.

Delighted at the thought of having Halwa, I was transported from my dreamland to here, Mumbai!

Sigh, it was just a dream - folks are a thousand kilometers away and there's no Halwa here!