During the rush hour, if you are lucky enough, you may manage to get a seat in a bus or in the general compartment of a passenger train but a window seat will just be a dream. The other day, while I found myself in such a situation, I was reminded of a similar occasion …
Category: Travel
Trees or Buildings?
“Chip of the old block… This hill station has umpteen mind- blowing scenes… Right now, the sun set and the evening sky… The happy-go-lucky trees and plants dancing to the tune of the unseen wind…” The lady seem to be upset over the behavior of her son and his look-alike father! “Mom, what the hell …
Breathtaking indeed!
To our pleasant surprise, there was enough space in one of the compartments to sit and enjoy our journey from Ooty to Coonoor in the small train (Nilgiris Mountain Train) which was to move on shortly along the narrow gauge. When the train was crossing the first tunnel, I was getting ready to mentally recite …
Thus far and no further, please!
When trees and plants disappear and new buildings appear in large numbers, we call it urbanization and asset than it is a welcome change or rather a sure indication that the poor are becoming richer and educated. But, as far as the disappearance of trees and plants are concerned, it is time to say “thus …
Peaceful Co-existence
‘Old order changeth, yielding place to new…†The poet who wrote these lines would have taken into account the rapid changes that were taking place ever since stone age and the human capacity to bring about such changes but it is doubtful whether he would have foreseen the rapid unbelievable changes during the past 10 …
How about a playful hide and seek
“I am the monarch of all I survey…” “Uhm… I know the rest of those immortal lines… you need not repeat them here. Right now, you are the lord of fowl and brute… You can even add… and those majestic trees and the vast sky. But, don’t you think that you are, in fact, highlighting …
Wherever your casual eyes are cast!
I don’t know how far those mountains are from where we stay, but they are ‘distracters’. You try to concentrate on what you read or write but you are tempted to have a look at them now and then. Does one of them look like a sleeping dame or an old guy relaxing on an …
YUMMY!
At long last, we were at the ‘Big city’ and soon our taxi cab became a part of hundreds of slow moving cars and buses. Here and there, a few motor bikes and auto rikshaws were struggling to squeeze through narrow gaps. All through the morning, it was a pleasant journey, right from the hill …
The art of settling down!
Back home after a gap of eight months is a strange experience. Off and on you are haunted by the happy-go-lucky experiences you had had, all these days, with your kith and kin. Simultaneously, you have to struggle a bit to regain the routine life. Yeah, its calls for a lot of diplomacy and patience …
WOW!
We were on an aimless evening walk. There were several new houses, big and small, in that area and we were at liberty to choose any path that served the purpose! A subway here and a bypass there, we moved on and on, saying “Hi, Hello†in response to greetings from strangers whom we met …