What a ‘pen’tastic relationship!

The room is filled in pitch darkness. You are left wondering whether it was the right move to have ventured into the room in the first place. All of a sudden a warm grip on your wrist conveys assurance. You don t seem to know this person completely. Or do you remotely recognise him – possibly in one of your earlier encounters?

Your grip is then transferred to another sleek one which appears to be a fabulous pen.


Nevertheless the grip transpires to be your light and lead, as you slowly follow suite.


The air is filled with a mystic aroma all of a sudden which brings about lovely memories of absolute joy known only to you, personally. But how on earth did this connection happen at all?


The journey continues. By now you feel fully at home and walk alongside your 'grip' taking friendly strides.


You start guessing and second guessing the next turn of your journey. You succeed at times when you feel great and give yourself a pat on your back. But then your hunches betray you, at other times, as the surprise quotient grips you giving a topsy-turvy twist from your ‘all-knowing-adulthood’ to the ‘ever-inquisitive, zeal-packed-childhood’.


There is a gloomy cloud hovering on top of your head, revealed by occasional beams of light. A lightning of joy illumines the next moment. The glee experienced in your buoyant boyhood - Unparalleled stuff. And follows youth, love, thrills, humour, horror, and passion.


The flavour of a higher plane is gently drizzled on you with aromatic essence. By this time your journey comes to a tense and taut end. As the light goes on, you are pleasantly surprised to witness hundreds of other co-passengers holding on to their respective 'pen-grips'.


‘What's all this’ you quiz yourself more as an exclamation rather, as reality dawns.


It is indeed an enriching journey – a journey which is nothing but your reading experience and the pen-grip is the relationship between the writer and the reader.


Well, the journey is great if you choose the right trip.


The World Book Day falls on 03 March 2011. So does this serve a reminder to slice a bit of our obsession for the idiot box and turn it, if you are not yet there, towards the printed realm of the enchanting creations of man?