It is a baby GIRL. Dress her in PINK !!!

I was about to leave work when Arthur wished me a good evening and continued noticing my purple fleece.

I love the color of your fleece and I wish men get to wear dark colors. Do men wear dark colored shirts in India? I saw some Indian men and women on the subway who I most probably think were going for some party dressed in bright colors like maroon, deep blue, golden upper garment like the one are wearing(I was wearing a orange kurta to work that day!)

He turned to Ed who sits across us in the same cubicle and asked him...Hey Ed, do Russian men wear dark colored shirts. I have never seen men wearing anything more than a white, cream or a pale blue traditionally. Ed gave a big nod…yes Arthur…it is always the white and white like colors which are worn.
They turned back to me and within those few seconds, my thought processing ranged from the candy-pink clad MGR/Sivaji to the yellow, purple, red, green blue Ramarajan /Vijayakanth /Sarath Kumar sailing across the heroes who wear the exact same colored costume as the heroines to the silk jacketed Prakash Raj in the movie Villu!!.

There is no concept of a specific color for a gender in India unlike here where a boy baby is dressed in blue and a girl in pink.

Do you know why blue is for a boy and pink is for a Girl? asked Arthur and also went ahead explaining the same. A male child is always considered to be superior than the female child anywhere in the world across all the cultures as they are the carriers of the blood line. Blue color is supposed to ward-off the evil spirits and hence the boy baby considered to be the precious one was always wrapped in a blue cloth. When this was continuing over a period of time, a thought arose among people on what color would look the best on a girl child. A pink baby is a healthy baby with a good blood flow leading to the rich pink which shows through the light colored skin. Women are always associated with beauty and what is more beautiful than a healthy child? “In the pink” is an English idiomatic expression for in good condition or in good health. So to conclude there was never a color for a baby girl. I thanked him for the explanation and rushed to catch the train and saw this young father on the subway with his baby girl in the stroller…….

Pink… Pink…. Pink…
The bubble-gummy pink …. The pacifier is pink….
Stroller to the shoes…. Bottle (feeding) to the blanket….
Even the box that carries the wipes is also in pink…

I reached home thinking about the conversation and the pink baby!

Isn’t it interesting that the precious one gets to dress only in 3 colors - white/ocre/light blue in the western world in most of the occasions. Blue has had various meanings in the past and the present.On the good side are the bluish Krishna, neelakanta siva, the clothing for heavenly figures in the Christian paintings andsimilarly in other religions too. Blue is the colour of God's Glory. Contradictorily blue is also represented as a color of dullness like “having the blues”, morning blues etc.

Why get obsessed with the baby blue or the baby pink when there is lot more???????

Everyday Notion....

Notion is all about the different ideas, impressions, perception, thoughts, belief, dreams, judgement, and impulse.

Wait…. Aren’t those the Synonyms of the word Notion?

Words get associated with their meaning depending on their usage. Call out the words apart and would you ever think that they are connected?

This Everyday Notion aims at dealing with those varied fractions of my thoughts which are byfar different from day to day..but it is me..still the very me.