- Shahnaz Husain

Holi Hai!!   The vibrant festival of   colors of happiness is just around the corner. Barely a few days are left  before you head  to  play  joyfully  and get dirty   in colour game.  The Holi fever has set it and it is     the time of the year   when you  are excited   for  looking like a multi-coloured canvas.

The festival brings with itself, a whiff of mishmash of dry gulal and buckets of water.

Poor Shane Warne. Found dead in his hotel room. What a way to go and at fifty-two!

To have played cricket for so many years he must have kept himself very fit, and it’s something we all should do, for after all, in just a day, your heart will likely beat over 100,000 times. Your blood will travel about 168,000 miles. You will breathe about 23,000 times. You will drink three pounds of liquids.

This happened a couple of weeks ago; a car coming down the opposite lane at breakneck speed climbed up the divider and before my astonished eyes turned a couple of times before coming to a standstill upside down! Though the driver got out unhurt, it was just providence that there were no other cars in the same lane, or it would have been a catastrophe!

Even as communication gets easier and easier and we now can speak, see each other and know how our near and dear ones are at hardly any cost, I wonder why the easiest mode of communication, which is prayer is hardly used.

Prayer is powerful, and prayer is effective. We don’t need even a costly cellphone for it!

Three years ago my schoolmates started a WhatsApp group and it suddenly struck me and a few of my classmates that there were so many who’d played an important role in our lives. I began to think, and realized that so often we take time to thank people who are important, but forget to thank those who we think are little people who played big roles but were too unimportant we felt to get our thanks.