Tribute To A Princess

All my life, I have been facinated with royalty, perhaps with good reason. Two of my favourite people in the world are women I look up to and almost worship. They are Princess Diana of Wales and HRH Gayatri Devi Sahiba, Rajmata of Jaipur. The latter is ..I don't know how to describe it but I'm almost in love with her. I never tire of reading her autobiography, never tire of turning over endless pages of her photographs. She has been described as an embodiment of beauty, grace and elegance. I try so hard to model myself on her and I would be insanely pleased If I succeeded even a little. What a fairy tale life she has led! The opulence and extavaganza of the Jaipur Royal Family is one that cannot be hoped to be matched by humbler royal families, like my own. The Rajmata has done so much, helped so many.
It's such a pity that time has to pass. At the height of her youth, She has been one of Vogue's most beautiful people in the world.To my prejudiced eyes, she is still so beautiful and so elegant.
It reinforces my theory that breeding tells. No matter what you do, if you are well born and well bred, it tells. Like my own grandmother. She, too, was one of the most beautiful people I have ever seen ,in her youth. I don't care how everybody thinks that being cool is so important, how it comprises wearing impossibly tight tops and pants that defy the law of gravity. All I want to do is live up to these women, become like them.
The Poonjar Royal Family ( my family) too has its share of heroes and heroines. Like Col. G.V. Raja. Sportsman par excellence, he was the brother-in-law of the Maharaja Of Travancore.
My grandmother tells me tales of this gentleman taking her to see golf courses and the like, when she was a child. He seemed, to me, to be a courtly and gallant gentleman. He never failed to come and visit my great grandmother.
I like to think of Gayatri Devi, not as she is now, but as she was then. A beautiful princess out of a fairytale. And thus forever will she remain to me. Her Highness, Gayatri Devi Of Jaipur.

Cardinal Sin

There seems to be loads of time to waste but amazingly enough, no time to do stuff that really matters. I have long suspected that there is something amiss about time. It's not really just seconds, minutes and hours. Time is relative. I would say, directly proportional to the interest you take in whatever you are doing.
Sports seem to be in the news a lot these days. Poor Shreesanth. Seems to have learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to be cheeky. The slap from the hefty Singh must have jarred his back teeth. Ouch! Save a little pity for Ronaldo too. He found out a bit too late that the three gorgeous ladies he was with( wait a minute, three !!??!!) were in fact, ahem, men. He must have been drunk bcuz I have never seen transvestites who can actually pass for women.
Kareena Kapoor seems to be creating quite a buzz about her size zero figure. Earlier she looked normal. Now she's just another waif thin, anorexic zombie chick. Ok, maybe I'm just bitter bcuz I've put on a leetle weight. I have this overriding urge to tell Shobha De to go @#$@$%**&%.
Anybody who has read her latest article will agree with me.
A generous relative donated Six books to this starving gal recently. All were the RD condensed book collections. So I read the Agony and The Ecstasy. Very, Very good.
Something funny happened at the airport. I was reading and this insistent, angry voice was jabbering away somewhere close. I discovered that the source was a man behind my chair . He was lecturing his daughter and a few minutes of unobtrusive eavesdropping revealed all. Apparently, the gal was gonna marry someone her parents did'nt approve of. Her Dad was giving her a piece of his mind( a very considerable one). And by the look of it, the dude was not someone you mite want to marry. To each his own.
Back to the IPL. So, the cheerleaders are wearing skimpy clothes , are they? I would like to know, who wants to see cheerleaders in jumpsuits? Not me. Anyway, KK( refer above) was wearing something similar but diminished in Tashan. Don't see anyone campaigning against that.
Anyway, there are so many other things to care about. Like global warming, for instance. Or starving children in Africa. But no. They can rot in hell so long as the cheerleaders are fully clothed. Geez!
Ever wonder that when you put crumbs out for birds, they never eat them. But when you try and save something from them, they will probably outwit you and steal it. Why do they call people birdbrains?
Black and white horror movies are so nice. And much scarier. I saw scary movie 4. Funny but not exactly recommended for, say, a parson. I really want to see Sacred Evil.
Can't think of anything else rite now. Wait! Why is this titled Cardinal Sin? I don't know.