Sampath-Musings

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   BICYCLE       How can I forget the first ride on my own pride BICYCLE?   For it gave me my  most-treasured first VEHICLE;   And the much-needed transition from physically stretching the legs to pedalling, taking me to the PINNACLE of joy;   As a schoolboy, I deemed it a MIRACLE!         An almost simple CONTRAPTION,   Its mechanism was plain-sailing without COMPLICATION;   The easy CONSTRUCTION, in case of any small repair, enabled me in RESTORATION.   With PRECISION and PERFECTION;   Of course, many high-speed vehicles started hitting the roads subsequently due to mind-boggling automobile REVOLUTION!       Hail with BICYCLE even now!         R.SAMPATH 3.9.2026

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   GRANDMOTHER     (Dedicated to our group members and grandchildren)         Grandmother isn't just a close RELATIVE;   But who doesn’t have a parallel ALTERNATIVE;   They're fond of INTERACTIVE;   With their grandchildren and being SUPPORTIVE!   Grandparents are our asset and are RECREATIVE!         Who can forget her profuse love and AFFECTION?   And many a CONVERSATION -   While we were tender children and her lovely ASSOCIATION and ATTENTION;   That gave us utmost SATISFACTION and INSPIRATION;   Of far-reaching positive IMPLICATION!         Is it possible to forget many interesting stories narrated by her now and THEN?   At that old age, she would have been more enraptured and enamoured by grandchildren than even their own CHILDREN;   The bonding between...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   HISTORY       What's HISTORY?   It's a series and collection of many a real STORY;   Most of them with GLORY;   For the present and future generations to CARRY;         There will be good lessons to LEARN;   Bad ones to SHUN;   And many to scratch your BRAIN;   Rare things to YEARN!           It offers CLUES;   With significant CUES;   Of great VALUES;   Paving the right and righteous life path as your GUIDES!       R.SAMPATH 28.8.2026

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:                    SCHOOL DAYS' MEMORY LANE    As school-going children, during play times, we had no INHIBITION;   There was no self-imposed PROHIBITION;   In class, we had a common AMBITION:   We were attentive to what was taught and tried to have full IMBIBITION!         For playing, no quorum was COMPULSORY;   Response would never be ELUSORY;   We would not take in what was ILLUSORY;   In case of dispute or controversy, we would send the most intelligent among us as our EMISSARY!         Except for examinations, we had no FEAR;   Nor a big responsibility to BEAR;   Although we had prepared for it on top GEAR!   Despite healthy competition, we held one another NEAR and DEAR;         We had a strong and special BOND; ...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES       Both are of motley, a riot of mind-blowing colours;     And jaw-dropping designs;     Both are soft creations of Mother Nature;     Flowers are humble, and butterflies are nimble;     The latter are attracted by the former for the honey;     They're a natural pair, inseparable from each other;     Both are invariably captivating and entrancing to poets;     Who never miss to relate the duo as an apt pair in their works;     The colours and admixture of colours are the pet features of cloth manufacturers along with countless designs to be printed in the female clothing, especially sarees;       Both, though they're short-lived creations, have attained an immortal/permanent place in the hearts and works of poets and the literary world at large! ...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:    APPROPRIATE and INAPPROPRIATE      Empty vessels make the most noise for nothing;   The frog's own tongue is its worst enemy, especially during rainy season;   The nicest gesture one can be to sport a smile at others;   Go on the fastest track to help others;   In this modern age where  the world has shrunken into a global village, the widest is the global human network for interaction transcending all borders and barriers;   While we talk to our relatives and friends abroad on the phone/WhatsApp for hours, why avoid interacting with our neighbours, keeping ourselves within the confined cocoons?   While you drive with utmost speed on the road, rushing ahead of others, why go in the slowest mode to the rescue of a person in distress on the road?   Overall, it's the best course to put into practice what you preach and be a role model;  just teaching is...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   WEIRD YET TRUE       Even the scorching Sun can't burn the sky;     Nor can any amount of rain drench the sky;     Even a heavy snowfall will not solve water problems;     While digestive enzymes burn the eaten food in the stomach into calories, they don't harm your belly.     Although two-thirds of the Earth is ocean/sea water, it still doesn't intrude or encroach into the landscape and annex it with water territory;     Even if the mother-hen tramples its chickens, they will not be maimed;     We do not get two summers a year because seasons are controlled by Earth's fixed 23.5-degree tilt as it orbits the Sun just once annually. Each hemisphere tilts toward the Sun only one time per year, giving every location a single summer and a single winter.     The blinking stars you see in the night sky actually sent their l...