rangOli neigbours

rangOli neigbours Two neighbouring houses with a common courtyard and a mango tree in between Two friendly neighbours and two neighbouring rangOlis decorating their housefronts The cuckoo on the tree observed how dissimilar they were! One rangOli was traditional with dots and lines in white and with border reliefs in red The other was more modern filled with all sorts of colours and no dots or lines could be seen Under a canopy of clouds and the sounds of wind the cuckoo began to hear voices -- the voices of the rangOlis! I am more beautiful than you are -- more colourful, more attractive, more poetic and more vivacious You, you just look plain and simple dull and prosaic You may be right but beauty is in the beholder's eye beauty is in the creator's mind beauty is in that divine heart Suddenly the winds began to whip up and the clouds became darker and the sky began to light up and claps of thunder could be heard The first seasonal rains arrived to cool the hot inferno that the parched land became A little rivulet started to flow carrying with it the plain and the simple as well as the colourful and the attractive rangOlis that dissoved and united into a patternless puddle The cuckoo shivered in the branches and the sky poured on relentlessly J K Mohana Rao