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Sherlock Holmes with his fancy hat, magnifying glass and pipe
always fascinated me. I was glued to every clue Perry Mason
worked on. I would read with anticipation as Ganesh (Vasanth)
reconstructed a crime with a seemingly simple object. The way
these celebrated detectives worked was really captivating—
piecing clues together, painstakingly, one piece at a time,
sometimes aided by past theories and sometimes devising new
techniques to help in the search.
Probably, it is a thing with all Scorpios. They love the mysteries
of the world. So do I. And I have a snoopy Aquarian in me
too, who also loves hidden somethings and suspense. At the
age when most boys’ fantasies involved picking up a bat and
destroying the opposition to win a cricket match for their
country, I would fantasise myself as a detective solving a
murder mystery with a simple clue.
While that dream of being a detective never materialised, I’m
truly grateful to the universe’s way of giving me a chance to
be a detective in my own way. Only, there is no violent death
that I investigate; it is life—
the past, the present and, most
importantly, the future, for that’s where one’s hopes and
aspirations lie. And yes, I don’t have a Dr Watson or a
Vasanth to talk to. It’s myself that I engage with. If people in
my inner circle feel that I’m lost most of the time, then they
are right. And some of them also know it is the normal state
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