Disclaimer: The 7th of the AIA Series, this post also comes as a sequel to the previous post - A Fishy Affair
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For those who haven't read that one, let us give you a little
background of what’s been happening till now. The author and his friend have sauntered
off to a small village near Nainital, and have been doing nothing much other
than sitting on hill tops, flicking stones and telling each other tall tales
about how women find them irresistible.
If only they ever cared for fact, over imagination.
The previous day, they did go for a dip in a stream that was
quite icy.
Flashback over. Present day.
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“So we are back at our stream. Again to feel alive, I
suppose?” he asked, but I am not sure if he was supposing too much.
“Your mother will thank me later. For getting you to bathe the only two times
that you did this month.”
“Remember those movies with waterfalls?”
So we both took a deep breath, and remembered those movies
with waterfalls. Those nice movies where
the hero, seemingly innocently, wanders to a waterfall, only to find a pretty
girl right under it. Why these women
start dancing as soon as they are under a waterfall beats me, and why they
should get all seductive about it is an even bigger puzzle, but a good
detective is one who finds his own answers.
After cracking a few jokes, though.
So, once we were done remembering, we wandered, a bit here,
a tad there, hoping against hope to find our own Mandakini, our own Twinkle Khanna, our very own Zeenat Aman under a waterfall. We ended up bumping into each other at the
next bush.
“Must you have such a big ass? Even the birds are sitting
high up in their nests, lest they bump into it and ricochet to the next village.”
So I pushed my nice little bottom a little in, and strutted
off importantly towards the waterfall, careful not to sway it too much. The
nice little bottom, I mean. It’s a difficult thing, to control, when you are
thinking about it. Quite unhealthy too,
to be thinking about your own posterior.
“Feel like dancing yet?” he screamed as I stepped into the
stream, and journeyed towards the waterfall. If I could, I would dance on his
grave, jes, but I am not sure if this flowing creation of nature was inspiring
me enough to go all Mandakini under it.
The sight was quite beautiful though - the waterfall gushing
down with all the force that it could muster. A few plants stretched from a
nearby rock, straining to feel the water on their leaves, and behind them, the
rocks glistened a nice blend of black brown and silver. I was running to it
now, taking off my shirt and tossing it to a group of rocks sitting stoutly in
the stream. The spray had drenched me even while I was metres away. The water
was deeper here, flowing above my waist, and I settled into a swimming
position.
“Wait up, I am coming” he yelled, and jumped into the water.
“So that’s …glug glug… what they glug meant when they were
saying Ram teri Ganga maili ho gayi.”
“Abey paapi, half the Ganga has gone down your lungs. Stop
keeping your silly mouth open. Brr.. its quite cold.”
In seconds, we had reached the base of the waterfalls. When
we went under it, with such force did the water fall on our backs, and so cold
was it that we could not help but yell at the top of our voices. Swimming in a
river is one thing, in it you go with the flow, it is relaxing; but a waterfall
– all it wants to do is hit you with everything that it has. My whole body was
shaking with excitement. I was shivering but it felt electric. In some way, it
felt as if we were being purged, of every layer that the city had plastered on
us.
“If only you had brought your camera we could have made our
own aesthetic Alive is Awesome ad”, he
opined.
“With your potbelly, it would be anything but aesthetic.”
“Sigh. Remember those movies with waterfalls?”
Sigh, Twinkle Khanna.
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More from the Series,
6) A Fishy Affair
5) Vaikom Diaries : And that's how the Narayanans roll
4) The Heart of a Goof
More from the Series,
6) A Fishy Affair
5) Vaikom Diaries : And that's how the Narayanans roll
4) The Heart of a Goof
