Its been 10 months since I have been waiting for this moment............. leaving Mysore and going back to Delhi. To be honest, I disliked this place from the very moment I stepped here. I was coming from Chandigarh,one of the best cities in this country, and it was my first stint of stay ever in south India. Only after arrival here, did I realise that there is a strong and invisible divide between the north and south.In fact, here in the south, people almost tend to treat you like foreigners once they come to know that you don't share either their looks or have any little knowledge of the language they speak.For the first time I realised that its really amazing that we call ourself one country and are bound by one law because the under that one roof,the rooms are so strongly built that there is really not much that one can hear of what goes on in the other.
However, the last few months have softened my outlook about Mysore.... thanks to some of the nice people that I have come of befriend.In fact,I surely would remember this place for its weather and beauty and at the end of the day, I am really happy that Mysore happened to me.
However, the bottomline is that I am going back to where I belong and that thought leaves a big smile on my face.So, I shall be back in the same avatar talking sweet salt and bitter once I settle down.Till then, ciao!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Humans.....God's mistake for sure!
Yesterday, my wife and daughter visited the Mysore zoo and more than anything else I was extremely excited about my 2 year old seeing a variety of fauna for the first time in her life. It all went well till the time I was driving back to collect them from the zoo. Suddenly a thought occurred to me that what if we humans were not so lucky and the animals were lucky enough to get us caged and keep in the zoo! It just sounded so cruel..........I realised that how selfish we humans are! Just for the pleasure of our eyes, we shamelessly execute our superiority on the other species!
I think this concept of zoo is wrong and cruel to say the least. We need to respect the other not-so-lucky creations of God and give them their due. After all their only fault is that they were not the chosen ones to be born as a human being .... probably a creation which even God must be regretting after having created it!
I think my 2 year toddler seems to more intelligent than I thought her to be because the whole tour did nothing to amuse her ...... and it took me 33 years of my life to realise that it was really nothing to be amused about.... rather it is a mistake which we should correct...and the earlier the better!
I think this concept of zoo is wrong and cruel to say the least. We need to respect the other not-so-lucky creations of God and give them their due. After all their only fault is that they were not the chosen ones to be born as a human being .... probably a creation which even God must be regretting after having created it!
I think my 2 year toddler seems to more intelligent than I thought her to be because the whole tour did nothing to amuse her ...... and it took me 33 years of my life to realise that it was really nothing to be amused about.... rather it is a mistake which we should correct...and the earlier the better!
Monday, June 9, 2008
Tourism in ruins!
I am just about to wrap up my stint of stay in Karnataka, the place that boasts of having the "silicon valley" of India, Bangalore. Just before I leave this place for good, I , like all Indians, am in the process of marking my attendance in the places of interest around Mysore. So yesterday, we planned to go to the nearby tourist spot of Thalakad, around 75 kms away from Mysore.However the trip turned out to test my driving skills to the hilt and I guess we will land up remembering the trip for the horrifying journey than the beauty of the place.
Its so saddening to see the state of tourism in Karnataka. Our last journey to Ooty gave me a hands on experience of how it must be to drive through roads after an earthquake rips it off. To come to think of it, I guess, the orthopedicians in this state should pay some commission to the government for getting them patients with low backaches,as the bad travel must be contributing to a significant number of victims turning to the doctors for relief.
On a more serious note, I don't know why a bad and sorry experience is required to awaken the government. I bet only after a major accident claims the life of poor tourists that the headlines would be grabbed and the government would land up doing "too little too late" to improve the pathetic state of the roads in Karnataka.
Our politicians are so busy grabbing the gaddi from each other that miss out opputunities to increase the revenue for the government.God has been so kind and bestowed so much to us in the form of heritage and scenic beauty that its a crime and unpardonable offence not to recognise it and use it to promote tourism. A small country like Maldives which thrives and survives on tourism would have been enough to make a responsible government make best of the beauty in the country.
I don't understand why do these netas make big issues about the Indian culture when they really have done nothing to preserve the past. I guess, politics is all about just talks relating to POLL- TIC king in the mind of the dirty politicians of this country and they fail to see beyond it...........!
Its so saddening to see the state of tourism in Karnataka. Our last journey to Ooty gave me a hands on experience of how it must be to drive through roads after an earthquake rips it off. To come to think of it, I guess, the orthopedicians in this state should pay some commission to the government for getting them patients with low backaches,as the bad travel must be contributing to a significant number of victims turning to the doctors for relief.
On a more serious note, I don't know why a bad and sorry experience is required to awaken the government. I bet only after a major accident claims the life of poor tourists that the headlines would be grabbed and the government would land up doing "too little too late" to improve the pathetic state of the roads in Karnataka.
Our politicians are so busy grabbing the gaddi from each other that miss out opputunities to increase the revenue for the government.God has been so kind and bestowed so much to us in the form of heritage and scenic beauty that its a crime and unpardonable offence not to recognise it and use it to promote tourism. A small country like Maldives which thrives and survives on tourism would have been enough to make a responsible government make best of the beauty in the country.
I don't understand why do these netas make big issues about the Indian culture when they really have done nothing to preserve the past. I guess, politics is all about just talks relating to POLL- TIC king in the mind of the dirty politicians of this country and they fail to see beyond it...........!
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