is this forever

Come to my dreams everyday
and I will be very fine all the day
Kindness! Dad when did u teach me this?
you don't answer me
I learnt it that day
My heart sinks when I think of your forehead,
haunting...never felt anything like that..
I touched your hair softly thinking to get any tiny hair fallen
to keep it as your precious last thing to see forever
I got one..hugging it in my hand I walked to funeral..
It is in my little purse along with your phone book and some of your scribbled papers
I never dared to open them after u
You stood once when I was leaving..at one moment I realized you was waiting for my kiss on that cheek
how many I kissed you on that day dad..you might be happiest when I did it to alive you..

Silk- Colorful- a tiny bit of History

My father along with my uncle once planned to start silkworm farming. It was more common those days. I was in my 8 Th standard, I guess. We had a new building in construction stage which was very near to my house where they planned to start Silk farming. I remember my dad calling me and showing those tiny eggs of silk worm..very tiny ones..I wanted to squash them, as they looked like lice egg (nits). Dad was telling they will grow very big if we give them food. From that day onwards, everyday evening after school, I run to that new building and see how much big they have grown. Sometimes when dad used to serve mulberry leaves (food of silk worms), I used to stand beside and ask him, "If you get any mulberry fruits in that leaves, give them to me, don't give to insects". When I go there with my friends..He was asking us to carry round wooden baskets of leaves into silkworm room in pairs. You should have understood one thing.. My show off..about silk worms to all my friends. I show them how they eat, move, slowly..I take them into my hands and show my guts :)..In school my stories followed everyday, till my dad took them to Bangalore to sell them. I remember they were worried about improper cocoon formation..Before dad took them, I took a small cocoon and placed it in a match box, I thought butterfly will come out of it.

I suddenly remembered all those today. I was traveling from my friends place to office, I have to cross a junction, which is named as " Silk Board" which is given after "Central Silk Board" located nearby.

That was in my Masters, when I got randomly chosen seminar topic on, "Advantages of Biotechnology in Sericulture", those silkworms came again into big picture.

I was fascinated to hear the history of silkworms..I controlled myself telling about the story while seminar as it is something to say in gene level..But I, at last told the story. Because I wanted to say.

You know silk is first discovered by Chinese people and secretly maintained for 2000 years. Many stories came out those days, that silk is made of leaves, soil layers, some plants...Its discovery was made a nice story.

One fine morning Chinese king came back form hunting and shouted in the palace, "My dear Princess! I want some refreshing drink". Those days tea is brewed under trees in palace garden. Queen was standing there while tea was made. Suddenly! In the vessel of boiling water, they saw glittering threads. Queen asked to take them out and observed its shiny nature. She was fascinated by that new thing. They came to know about the cocoons on the tree. She started sticking that shiny thread on her gowns. Then slowly they found more cocoons, and very soon they made silk gowns, veils, so on..And then rules came out in China. Any Chinese speak anything about silk is sentenced to death. It was symbol of royalty.
Once, a person from Japan came to China and stole a few maids who know about silk, few cocoons and plants where they grow. After that Japanese started producing silk too.

I find it interesting. All of them enjoyed listening to it.

We then speak about genetic engineering, and how silkworm genes are modified to produce more thick, fat cocoons. And I came to know, they started using the strongest silk produced using Biotechnology techniques in making Parachutes..

Silkworms have made me remember those colorful days!