Have we really forgotten to look at nature?

Date 02.08.2013.

I sometimes think if people have forgot their basic nature of living in the real 'Nature' or at least looking at the nature around them. People of course resort to their inner natural tendency, when they resort to violence in the name of protests or when they demand a separate state like Telangana and other states of India.

Speaking of different states, now people are demanding their own state like Gorkhaland, Saurasthra, Kutchch, and what not. They are simply undoing, what Sardar Patel did 60 years ago, by uniting different kingdoms and Raj's.

Sorry, I went off the wrong lane in this blog of my travel diaries. I wanted to write about the nature. Anyways, how many of us people really think to look at nature, in our daily lives? We may think of planting trees once a year, or going to a forest once a year in our busy lives, but have we forgot to really look and appreciate the nature around us and in turn, appreciate that 'inner being' in us, who is looking to jump forward always.

Have we looked at the stars at a clear sky carefully, like we used to? Do we now look at the wonderful animals around us and appreciate them for their usefulness in our daily lives? Not anymore I guess, after the corporate culture set in and sends us home, tired hungry and sleepy.

There are only few people remaining, I guess, who wake up in the middle of the night specially to see meteors falling in the sky or look at the stars and wonder how tiny humanity is, and marvel at nature.

I have an interest in photography and always carry my camera with me when I travel. Yesterday, on my way back from my office, I happened to pass through a wonderful scene on a road. It caught my attention. A calf was drinking milk of its mother cow and the cow was taking utmost care of not disturbing it. It would get angry if any human being stopped nearby fearing for its calf.

How wonderful the scene was! When I started my camera, the cow became cautious and looked at me like I was going to hurt its calf. Motherly love. I quickly captured the scene and left the place.

It would be a better nation to be in or a better world to be in, if all people appreciate nature in their daily lives and contribute in some way

Adeiu,
Kulls

Ahmedabad airport drama

An interesting experience
This is how auto people try to rope in unsuspecting travellers

. Last week, I had gone to Ahmedabad airport to drop off Jiggi Patel my friend, going to Australia. As I came out of the airport, I wanted to take an auto to the bus stand nearby.

2 Autowallah  people approached me, thinking I was a traveler and had just landed down at the airport. The conversation between us....

Kaha jaana hai sahab.
Me: Gandhinagar jaana hai. Drop me to the nearby bus stand
250 Rs Lagenge. beth jao.. 1/2 ghante me pocha denge.
Me: Are you mad? Sorry, I dont want to come
Are sir, give 200 Bucks.. 50 Rs discount
Me: Man, My budget is only 50 Rs... uptil Gandhinagar. Take me or drop it.

What sir, you are at the airport, coming down from a plane and now haggling for a small amount. This is the standard rate of auto wallah people. You wont get less than this anywhere. Ok , lets make it to 150 Bucks and I will drop you off to nearest bus stand.

Me: Who said , I just landed down? I cam here to drop off my friend. I dont even work here. I can at the most give 30 bucks.
And then I started walking out of the airport.

Finally an auto wallah realised that I was only a local guy and offered me my choice of fare. He dropped me off to the nearest bus stand to Gandhinagar.

But this left me thinking, this is how all transport people operate at the airport. You need to be firm with them and be ready to walk off from the deal to get the best deal.

Closing this, I must thank my boss at my office-LetsNurture to allow me to go to airport to see off my friend at such a short notice.

Is there any reason to be wary of drenching in Rain

Date: 27th July

All the year round, people wait anxiously and tirelessly for the rains to come. When the rains do come actually, they get part in getting drenched in rain. But for how long? Hardly twice or thrice. 

I have seen while coming from my office in Ahmadabad, that when it rains, people actually curse the rain after a time. What an irony! First they wait and pray for the rain, then they get drenched in the rain for a day or two and then  the same people curse the rain. 

Due to pressures from my uncle's home in gandhinagar, I take my raincoat with me to office every time, but I remember that in these 2 months of rain, I may have rarely used my raincoat. It is indeed a good thing to get drenched in rain, unless you are going for a job interview, to someone's place or have a delicate tendency to catch cold. 

How wonderful it is to get wet in the rain. You feel your stress, worry and all the troubles in the world get washed away. You don't need to go and freshen up at your home. And the best of all things is that you get to experience the wonders of nature flowing by with green trees and the wonderful scenery passing by.  

I would request everyone to enjoy the rain when they get caught up with it and spend the best days of their life enjoying. After all, they are not going to enjoy the rain once they get old, are they?

Kulls

Travel Diary No 3

Date: 12-07-2013

It is not every time, that you get unknown people in a bus singing together

But that is what happened on Saturday. I was coming to Baroda from Ahmadabad on a state transport GSRTC bus at 10 pm. There were about 30 passengers in the bus including me. As is the new facility, the bus had a TV installed where old filmi songs were playing..

It was also raining heavily outside. Suddenly, an old Dev Anand song came " Yeh dil naa hota aavaraa...'
such good was the tune of that song, that people from backside started to sing slowly first.. then the tone started to increase as others joined in, and people-total strangers to each other, started singing the song, as if they were going in a picnic. The conductor also joined in.

The atmosphere became so pleasurable, that the passing by bus passengers wondered, on what was happening in the bus, before they realized what was happening.
As soon as the song stopped, everybody went back to sleeping

It is not everytime that you see unknown people singing in the bus.. but India is a land of uncertainties and unpredictability.

Kulls 

My travel Diary No 2

There have been enough articles, education and reminders about mobile etiquette.  Still some people feel that it is okay, to shout or speak at the top of their voice on mobile, while travelling. This can be said especially in case of villagers who have acquired mobile phones but not any mobile education. Why only villagers, but there are also educated people in cities, who do not know the manner to talk. Recently, I was travelling to Ahmadabad in a bus and there was a woman sitting on my opposite seat, who was giving cooking lessons on her phone to her daughter at home.  So loud was she, that all of the bus passengers came to know what was cooking at her home , what ingredients were going to be added to the dish, and how many street dogs they had near their home.

Add to that, if the voice of the woman would have been sweet, it would have been nice to hear, but her voice was like a frog croaking at the top of his voice.

I have also came across a well dressed man  talking on phone on a heated discussion with his son, on how his daughter in law behaved with him, and what he should do to teach a lesson to his wife.  

Thankfully I have also came across people who talk so softly, that one can’t even hear their whispering while sitting next to them. 

See ya

Kulls

My Travel diary No 1

Date:   08.03.2013

While returning to from Baroda to Ahmadabad on an intercity bus at 8 30 pm, a cute girl child seated beside me, asked her mother as soon as the bus reached express highway, “ Mummy, kya bus me sab sone ke liye hee aate hain?”. ("Mom, do people come to just sleep on the bus?”)  The child was just about 8 years or 7 years old, but she had  good sense of curiosity and concentration, and seemed to enjoy studying people. And how true she was!  People mostly pass time in bus or train by sleeping. There are less people who look outside to see the passing cities or nature or study other people. 

Most of the people are engrossed in their own troubles and world. This little girl was oblivious of tensions of adults. God keep her that way always. 

Kuldip