The title of this post finds its origins in a novel with simlar name written by VS Naipaul. Set in India, some 40 years ago or so, this is a kind of travelogue of author's brief stay in India where he found it to be full of superstitions, ignorance and darkness! Many decades and many MNCs and malls later, few parts of India seemed to have chucked off that tag, but there are many places that haven't and continue to remain shrouded in ignorance. Move few hours away from a city, travel in a second class train compartment or a dilapidated state transport bus and you get to see the dark underbelly of India Shining. As one of the characters in the movie Rang De Basanti says "Yahan zinda rehne ki jung mein logo ki zindagiyan nikal jaati hai" . So true it seems! My day today was spent being kind of lost in similar thoughts. To start with, I when I boarded the ST bus, a woman was wailing. She may be in her 20s or something, but she was crying in some peculiar musical tone. At
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Bloody awesome!!
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ReplyDeleteGr88 pics :-) majestic serenity unleashed!!!
ReplyDeleteRathi ka phodna jari hai......
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Nice pics!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I left few comments of ur posts..didnt get any reply? U dont reply to comments?
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Thanks.
Sorry ... Didn't notice ur comments in the blog earlier. Saw them just now!
I do reply to comments, and more so to comments from first time visitors to this blog :)
Somehow, I didn't take a notice of your comments (I was out of town when they were posted ... to be precise, I was busy clicking these pics during trip to Himalayas)
So I missed it somehow!
Awesome pictures!thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMind boggling!!!!!
ReplyDeleteReally loved the pics... infact feel like leaving my job right now and run off to the mountais !!
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Those are some beautiful photos! what time of the year is it?
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