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Smart city

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    Blatant weakness behind ‘Smart’ness… By Lancy Thomas It was cool weather and I was sleeping by wrapping blanket around me. My ear was banging loud sound saying ‘wake-up wake-up we are too late’. It was a cool morning since there was a drizzling rain. But my family members were shouting so hard, leaving me no other chance then to waking up. So I jumped out of my bed and ran for nature’s call and got ready fast for a trip, as last night we had planned for temple visit which I totally forgot. I could see everyone was ready to move and were eagerly waiting for me. I told everyone to get into the car and I will be ready within few minutes. It is 7 seated car which can accommodate a family. As we are joint family, almost everyone fitted comfortably in the car and started moving towards temple. Since there was drizzling, it was cool weather outside and we had very...

life in village

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Water was flowing in a small stream. which was crystal clear ,could see tiny "fishes " jumping and playing , suddenly thought in my mind to catch the fish thinking I can preserve at home. Could not find any kind of container nor net to catch hold of fish, just grabbed dupatta of my sisters kurtha and asked her to join me to catch fish , Both we stepped into the crystal clear stream of water holding either edges of dupatta against the water flow to trap the tinny fishes we could see our feet so clearly came to our mind we really need to brush our nails to clear the stains in-between our nails we kept that thought aside and started to trap the tinny fish, Suddenly my sister asked me how we will carry after catching the tiny fish since we need to walk back to our home at least few minutes. in mean while, the fish may die and we will be the reasons for their death| so I looked around to get some container which was hard to find so I rushed to the near by bushes of water plants wh...

Tiled roof

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The thunder sound was so "annoying" we could feel the sound of heavy rain that was the month of June as usual Mangalore was prone to  heavy rains in June ,July month .our house was at remote area of Mangalore city it was not too village also ,I could see the water dripping from the tiled roof and my mother was just keeping the vessel to collect the water dripping from tiles just to avoid water dropping to floor as usual me and my sister were just shifting the vessel from one place to other to collect the droplets it was a fun  and game to us , to collect the water drops without missing and who collects more is the winner at the same time I could hear my dad's voice who was just entering the main hall from the entrance how much I should spend ,the tiles were replaced before the rain starts still the problem is not solved he was in anger  thinking wether the work is not done pretty or the tiles was not replaced in tact he understood it is waste of time and energ...