The Public Diary

I always stand firm with the quote that your surroundings and your company have a grave impact on you and your thought process.  Call it my flexibility or having an easily influenced mind but I get affected by the circumstances. For instance, I am a kid who has learnt numbers in English. I don't have a clear memory if I ever learnt them in other languages in written form. Somehow I knew how to say them in Hindi/Punjabi but only up to 38. If anyone passed on the contact number to me in Punjabi I would request them to say it in English.  The story started changing when one day I saw some random person telling out his number in Punjabi in one go to the other person who was at some distance. I was surprised that the other person was able to jot it down immediately without having to ask for repetition or confirmation, as is the case in English. Had it been said in English, it would have certainly taken him a bit longer to get the other person to feed it correctly. Then I enter...

It's the second wave of COVID-19. And it's worse than the last year. Earlier we used to hear about cases at faraway places, in faraway people. Limited to news and statistics only. Hence, giving rise to the suspicion of the existence of the disease.  But this time, almost everyone is getting it. People in your family, people who you are in immediate contact with and the air is getting affected, increasing the odds of your exposure to the pandemic. One prominent symptom in patients is loss of smell and taste. So, let me divert from this sickening vibe and move towards the impact of sensory organs on each other. (What a smooth transition it was, no?) Has it ever happened to you that your sensing ability through one organ is affected due to the sensations being received by the other sensory organ?    Didn't get it?  I'll elaborate.  Once, I was watching a video recommended by my sibling. The video shot the occurrence of the Tornado. It was a good 10-15 minute video....