A cheery Ringtone




                                                 Tring Tring
Setting a ringtone on the cellphone is a matter of personal choice. Some like to keep it plain and simple but some the customized ones. It was such a customized ringtone which made one of the drab and dull Monday mornings interesting. As I managed to squeeze myself into the 8:22 AM Manhattan bound train, I felt lucky enough to have tgot a seat. To me, to be able to grab a seat in the rush hour crowd feels like winning a little trophy every morning.
The mood was quiet and somber in the coach with most of my fellow passengers dressed in business formals with grim looking faces. The air was suffused with a mild sweet fragrance, typical of the morning hour on a working day.
Some were busy reading books while a few others stared at their cellphones. Some like me were trying to doze off to sleep and the rest were staring blankly into nothing.  I think we all were silently bracing ourselves up for the long day ahead. The low steady humming sound of the central conditioning, the soft monotone of the train chugging were the only sounds which pervaded except for an occasional small murmur or a muffled laugh. And it was through this unmistakable air of melancholy that all of a sudden the high pitched voice of the Indian Bollywood singer Sadhana Sargam pierced the air, “Bin sajan jhula jhulu, mai vada kaise toodo .. and the rythmic beats followed .
From the corner of my eye I could see my fellow travelers were equally bewildered and amused.
The cellphone’s owner with a sheepish grin, fumbled and scrambled to locate his cellphone from the bottom of his office sack. Till the time it was fished out from the depths of his backpack, we were all treated to some cheery and rhythmic music.  The unique ringtone had indeed lightened up the glum and somber air turning it into cheerful and bright albeit just for a while.







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