Olive Oyl to Purple Queen!
The vision of branding Guwahati as a Purple City, drawing inspiration from the Kopou phool (Foxtail Orchid), has made it's presence felt. Sherin’s lane has apparently decided that merely following the theme is not enough. It must lead from the front. For the uninitiated - Sherin's resides in Guwahati’s first purple lane. There are some people who simply live in a lane. And then there are people whose lane gets chosen by history, government policy, municipality's enthusiasm and, possibly, divine intervention. My friend Sherin belongs firmly to the second category. Her lane has now become the first lane in Guwahati to be painted purple, and frankly, after looking at the evidence, I think the authorities made a very carefully calculated decision. For starters, Sherin is elegant, and the chosen one. E.C. Seiger, who created Popeye's Olive Oyl in 1919 AD, must have had a premonition of a girl who'd be born more than six decades later in Shillong, and who...
