Defying teleos all the way Hi traveler,
I liked the way you present your travel experience in an indifferent manner; it's anti-teleology, non-judgmental. Do you really experience anything?
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A small dose of Rock. Well man..... 'Living Next Door to Alice' was playing at the musical fountain in that park where we had our stroll at dusk. So i wudnt say we were totaly devoid of Rock.
I still have a chance. "The nearest possibility is to marry a Khasi girl and buy a house in her name, Indira advises. Too late."
Still dont apply to me! Sooo.....
Happiness I too felt that the moment defined the pilgrimage, especially on a hill which would bar the girl once she is 10 years old. Doesn't the picture speaks for itself?
Awesome! Eye catching ,interesting and the most wonderful part is the foto "something called happiness" but u have not mentioned that moment in the content.....y is it so?
Thanks for all the feedback, friends. When you travel in India, myths are as real as stones. I see the legends through the people I meet on the road and try to write it as journalistically as possible. I have been condemned by my secular friends for "eulogising fairy tales". But there is no escape from lores for a traveller.
I am not qualified to comment on the karmic cycle, but I could feel the energy on the hill. I have a yet-to-be-developed theory on the gods on the hills. They demand persistence and patience. The hike makes us, perspiring and panting like dogs, equal. (Not to forget the rich men opting for the easy route on cars or dolis or donkeys.) When ego is subsided, energy is released. Heart, lungs and every muscle vibes with energy. Mind is clear. Then the out-of-the-world experience the elevation provides. And...maybe its bullshit. But just a fleeting thought.
On Mythology, and Rishis... You may choose to call it Mythology, as one might see the Bible (orig. from Biblos = book, in greek), or the Koran, or any such set of stories.
However, I beg to differ on a couple of points. A Rishi is distinctly different from a human being. Rishis are able to manifest physically like humans, and even look and feel like them, but are essentially beings unchained to a body. Agasthya Rishi had certain karmic purposes, and settling down in the South of the Sub-Continent was one of them.
The pictures speak a thousand words. Kerala still retains the essence of its purity from another age - in spite of 'modern' life polluting the very creation of this essence.
Nice pics, great trip. You're on your way, fellows!!
Pact Of course. But we still remain three. Sunil seems to have fallen in love with the base camp. "I will come up to the base camp and wait for you there next time," he says.
A narration so authentic that i relived the whole trek. Well never knew u three made a pact. Buddy 3 is an odd number lets make it 4, Count me in as long as health permits.
Have read that. Must say that was inspiring. But even he seems to be too professional (heard some inside information in Muthanga about his celebrated 'Bus to Kuta' article a couple of years ago.) a rural reporter.
Great pics! Hello :)
That was indeed a great post.
Am sure you have had really worth mentioning time.
Pictures are as always great- gives the feel of the event!
Cheers,
Marutham.
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Tragedy Those were the days when I roamed around with little idea on cameras, forget digital ones. As a novice, I clicked several beautiful frames, but realized later that I had not loaded film properly!
When the bus came to its final halt in Koomankavu, the place did not seem unfamiliar to Ravi. He had never been there before, but he had seen himself coming to this forlorn outpost beneath the immense canopy of trees, with its dozen shops and shacks raised on piles; he had seen it all in recurrent premonitions - the benign age of the trees, their riven bark and roots arched above the earth. (O.V.Vijayan, The Legends of Khasak)
Somewhere around Chidambaram, I was startled awake as the bus took a sharp turn. It was a hamlet trapped in time; mud huts, hay piles, dung cakes, old trees, e... full info
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And I thought I was being too judgemental where I had no reason to be.