Just before going to bed...just out of the blue...
Mishti - Mamma Lion eats other animals?
Me - Yes
Mishti - So for that he kills the animals?
Me - Ya...
Mishti - Then why is he the King of the jungle? King has to protect everyone na...
Me - Right beta... I don't know why someone who harms everyone is made the King....
After the recent celebration of our 70th Independence Day, Mishti knows quite a bit about the day.
Some due to the patriotic movies watched by her father the entire day, some due to the little kid who dressed up like Lokmanya Tilak at our society's Independence Day event and a lot more after asking nearly 500 questions to me about Freedom, Freedom fighters and Independence.
Some questions were like..
"Mamma you said Pakistan was part of India, then if we both got independence then why did Pakistan get separated?"
"Mamma why did British people trouble us?"
"Mamma why would British people want our money if they had their own?"
And today's question was...
Mishti : "Mamma how did Mahatma Gandhi fight for freedom."
Me : He fought through non-violence which means without harming anyone.
Mishti : Mamma do you know if Mahatma Gandhi went for a Karate class when he was small?
Me : No... I have no idea betu.... but why?
Mishti : Just like that... I just wanted to know...
6/8/16
It was a special day for Mishti as she could finally get on a stage and address a good number of audience :)
Yes, she has been longing for this day. Last year in Chennai too she was selected for the inter school story telling competition. But the parents were not allowed in the competition. Moreover there was no dias. It was more like telling the story just to the judges.
This time too it was inter school story telling competition. She kept asking me if she was going to be on the stage. And finally she could :)
After her competition was over, we went to a mall to celebrate. While coming out of the mall she saw a sign board, which said, 'No parking'. Adi and I were busy in our conversation and didn't even notice what she did...
All of a sudden between our conversation...with a deep sigh in her voice, Mishti says.... "No Parking.... but so many parking!!!!"
We stop our conversation and look at the other side of the road... she was right :D
While reading Chapter 1 of her Computer Book which says 'Machines are man-made things'.
Mishti - Mamma what is man-made?
Me - The things which are made by human beings.
Mishti - But it says 'man-made' means things which boys made?
Me - No the term is just 'man-made'. It means both boys and girls.
Mishti - But Man means Boy no Mamma??
Me- ummm... ya but here it means both..
Mishti is still not convinced.... Anybody who has an answer to this??
16th May 2016
3:00 PM
Mishti came back from school and told all the stories of the day and as a ritual I had to tell mine too.
I asked her if she would like to hear about the poetess of India from the article that we did today on TBI- Hindi.
Mishti : I know Mamma ...it's Rabindranath Tagore.
Me : That's only one... we have many..
Mishti : okay tell me..
This was the article - http://hindi.thebetterindia.com/1854/women-poets-india-list-poetry/
The first name was Kamala Suraiyya and I started reciting her poem...
“Don’t write in English,they said,
English is Not your mother-tongue.
Why not leave Me alone, critics, friends, visiting cousins,
Every one of you?
Why not let me speak inAny language I like?
The language I speak,Becomes mine, its distortions, its queernesses
All mine, mine alone.”
– from An Introduction, Kamala Das.
Mishti - Why did people ask her not to write in English?
Me- Because her mother tongue was Malayalam.
After 10 minutes of explanation on what Malayalam is or why one was supposed to write in her/his own mother tongue...
Mishti : Ya we can write in any language we like... like you are Bengali but you write in English and Hindi :)
6:00 PM
Mishti's friends Mahika and Saanvi are on the door...
" Aunty Sidhiksha hai"..
Mishti : Mamma can I go to the park with them.
Me: Yes...take your water bottle along.
Mahika : Aunty aap usko itni choti si bottle kyun dete ho?
Me: Kyunki park me use itna hi pani chahiye hota hai beta :)
Mishti : Haan aur paani waste nahi karna chahiye. Paani kitna kam hai na.
Saanvi : Tere ghar me paani kam hai.
Mishti : Aray mere ghar me nahi...village me..village me logo ko peene ko bhi paani nahi hai. Bahut door jana padta hai unko paani laane.
6th May 2016
12:44 PM
No context....no background... just out of the blue comes a question. (And this is so normal)
Mishti : Mamma which part of the computer do you like the most?
Me: The Monitor
Mishti : Why
Me: Because we can see everything on the monitor :)
Me: Which part do you like the most?
Mishti : The Keyboard
Me: Why?
Mishti : Because you can write anything you want from the keyboard :D
Me: hmmmm... deep!! Very very deep!!!
