Daisies on concrete.
Have you ever seen daisies break open concrete and grow as if they were built to do that? Curious, isn't it? These feeble little things managing to break open skyscraper muscles? People say it's perseverance. I see it as the sunshine on a rainy day. I remember the evening when the former Tamil Nadu chief minister, M.Karunanidhi passed away. I was cycling when I heard heated arguments of someone refusing to close down their shop to what seemed like union workers. It is only when I got back home did I, along with my roommates, check our phones and came to know about the news. It was grief at first, for the people who have lost their leader and family member. Then it was panic, followed by a race- everything was shutting down and we didn't have backup stocks of food. It was the third hotel we went to, that still had some food. They were in the process of shutting down and would only let us take out and not dine in. As we were walking back to our house, careful not to l...