Return to Mysore
I am back, after almost three weeks of travel with a day snatched in between in Mysore. I feel curiously disconnected; and am needing some days before I 'click' back into life here. Everything is on auto-pilot, and I see things and places without actually feeling them.
When I was returning here, on Monday 12th, I luckily left home - that's my B & SIL's home in Bangalore- early, at 0920. With jams all the way from Adugodi through Langford road, I reached the station at 1050 - a distance of about 9 km, making it 6 km per hour. That is the speed at which we do our evening walks - jogging is at about 8 km per hour. The train left Bangalore station at 1100, and reached Mysore at 1250 - I was home by 1 p.m.
And still, people ask me in baffled tones "Why do you live in Mysore?"
The huge press of people, the traffic, the smoke and dust - I cannot stand this in any place. This town has space, open, clean, green places, sleepy, empty roads in the afternoons, and gentle people with no rubbed-raw-by-stress edges. Which is how it should be.
Barkha Dutt's 'We the People' talk show, on Sunday,covering Manju Shanmugam's death, so eagerly worked for and looked forward to, left me feeling sick. Barkha Dutt didn't care, and didn't even appear to; the key stake holders - IOCL, Mani Shankar Aiyar - slimed out of attending. And so on.
When I e.mailed an acquaintance, a senior IPS officer who has been helping with advice and information, he said "in our sevices we go through such depressive moments at least 4 times aday. cheers. the man did not loose his life in vain.it has made a difference". I am touched and revived.
The fight will continue.
When I was returning here, on Monday 12th, I luckily left home - that's my B & SIL's home in Bangalore- early, at 0920. With jams all the way from Adugodi through Langford road, I reached the station at 1050 - a distance of about 9 km, making it 6 km per hour. That is the speed at which we do our evening walks - jogging is at about 8 km per hour. The train left Bangalore station at 1100, and reached Mysore at 1250 - I was home by 1 p.m.
And still, people ask me in baffled tones "Why do you live in Mysore?"
The huge press of people, the traffic, the smoke and dust - I cannot stand this in any place. This town has space, open, clean, green places, sleepy, empty roads in the afternoons, and gentle people with no rubbed-raw-by-stress edges. Which is how it should be.
Barkha Dutt's 'We the People' talk show, on Sunday,covering Manju Shanmugam's death, so eagerly worked for and looked forward to, left me feeling sick. Barkha Dutt didn't care, and didn't even appear to; the key stake holders - IOCL, Mani Shankar Aiyar - slimed out of attending. And so on.
When I e.mailed an acquaintance, a senior IPS officer who has been helping with advice and information, he said "in our sevices we go through such depressive moments at least 4 times aday. cheers. the man did not loose his life in vain.it has made a difference". I am touched and revived.
The fight will continue.
posted by AnJ at 9:12 AM
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