Nature Adventures

Sept 25th, 2010, 12:36 am…. No. It wasn’t a dream….  I opened my eyes. I was on a soft and smooth bed of granite stone, gazing at the stars. I wondered who stole the tent at this time of the night and in this thick forest. Then I realized I was not in the tent. It was quite warm in the tent so we all had come out and slept under the sky in the open, scattered all across the huge granite monolith. My sleeping bag was of mediocre quality and hardly comfortable… but why was I so comfortable?! Serenity was at its zenith and the moment was a blissful eternity. It felt like a twilight, of divine proportion, between sleep and wakefulness. I could see the Great Bear in the sky. I hardly knew the constellations, let alone identify them. But who cares! God has made everything so perfectly jigsaw that it is impossible for man to put it together. And when he finally can - after a lot of contemplation, meditation and enlightenment - he’d prefer to leave it to

  7 th  May, 2010 - 9:37 PM… “Auto! Zara jaldi chalo miyaan!!!” Darn it!  Zindagi mein aaj ich milna tha ye taambail ki speed ka auto ?!  Driving on the Hyderabad-Secunderabad Highway @ 30 kmph! Gosh! On the 1.62 km stretch of the Tankbund road, I could have almost ran at that speed (never been in a marathon though and hardly know the world record) ! However, come 9:45, I am dot at SriKaleshwari Travels… finding about 6 of the 22 already there! So much for my punctuality. I am greeted by the lively and enthusiastic Dr. Vibha Naik who happens to be an anestheologist (pardon if any typo errors). Looking at the stringent and full-length instructions drawn up so meticulously by the GHAC, I was sure that if I am delayed for even a minute, she would give me multiple measures of anesthesia. But she was an absolute lady, congratulating a Hyderabadi for reaching on time!  It was interesting to meet people of different professions and from different walks of life. Mostly they were th