tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38644027.post8081391688059072191..comments2023-06-19T23:55:27.189-04:00Comments on Arguing India: India Sans Rants, Stereotypes, Simplicities: Adventures with my fatherUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38644027.post-54073430966811123142007-05-08T09:37:00.000-04:002007-05-08T09:37:00.000-04:00Hi Achyut,Thanks a lot for sharing your own travel...Hi Achyut,<BR/><BR/>Thanks a lot for sharing your own travel tales, they are very interesting indeed. I will try to write more about the great adventures that I've had with my dad - including trekking in the Himalayas and going on long and interesting drives.ishanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17669766317584371233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38644027.post-34482520513919886532007-05-08T05:07:00.000-04:002007-05-08T05:07:00.000-04:00IshaniYour tribute to your father –has given a gre...Ishani<BR/><BR/>Your tribute to your father –has given a great insight into his personality and his value systems. I think you must spend more time elaborating on some of the journeys and I am positive they wd have shaped your life as well. It would be wonderful if you cd share some of those photos..which I am sure will inspire a lot of others!<BR/><BR/>I am personally able to relate to it-as me and my family have been trying to live these experiences ourselves-in the last three years and although almost all of our travel has been restricted to the South India-save a trip from Hyderabad to Mumbai. Very similar to yours- as we too start off at dawn-and stop before the headlights need to be put! Staying overnight at some pal/relations place when & wherever possible- and using the opportunity to strengthen ones bonds! An occasional detour to a place of interest..stopping by to take in the natural beauty-and enjoy the journey with absolutely no eye on the clock/ speedometer-it has been a great way to unwind in the upcountry!<BR/><BR/>Just the last yr, we hopped by at Sriperumbudur-and before long –our kids aged 10 and 5 then- unraveled history. Rajiv gandhis death, the Sivarasan and Subha saga, LTTE, IPKF, understanding why people often behave the way they do!! Personally I found it very educative-and am certain Sangeeta would agree- after all, her growing memories –are connected with the drive to South India from Gomia (Bihar) –once in two years!!<BR/><BR/>Right now we are in the midst of yet another trip-driving this time from mysore to Kerala- tought to choose between the highlights -among the Teak museum in Nilambur, Kalamandalam in Cheruthuruthy and the ayurvedic hospital on an island in the backwaters of Chettuva –each one simply outstanding!!<BR/><BR/>Lots of miles to go,...AK Menonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06019764664782608401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38644027.post-35848665995442976492007-05-07T09:03:00.000-04:002007-05-07T09:03:00.000-04:00Ishani, your evocative account of travels with you...Ishani, your evocative account of travels with your beloved late father, resonated with my recent experience of travel and adventure albeit fictional- viewing Satyajit Ray's `Sonar Kella'…<BR/><BR/> <BR/>Having traveled around the world from Senegal to Tokyo, watching Satyajit Ray's `Sonar Kella' again, recently, reduced me once more to a little brown Bengali girl child palpitating with adventure and excitement induced by a journey – in this case a journey through a child's imagination to a mythical golden fort, captured by no less than mythic cinematic images of Rajasthan. Growing up in the huge metropolis of Kolkata, where the physical landscape is one of overcrowdedness, of teeming millions, outward poverty and squalor and a cacophony of sounds deep into the night – Satyajit Ray's sounds of open desert, Rajasthani folk music, the sounds of a train journey and the lilting sounds of camels in motion took us Bengali children to another world of imagination – where one journeyed intensely, to Rajasthan, to unknown worlds, to `Tanganayika', to journeys within the self.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>Mukul's face, the face of the child protagonist leaves the viewer haunted. By a strange series of coincidences, the most famous face in western painting, the Mona Lisa was visited on my consciousness repeatedly, on my many visits to the Louvre, the more recent film the Da Vinci Code and through a biography of Da Vinci on the History Channel. Viewing `Sonar Kella' recently, I realized that the face of Mukul was imprinted on the consciousness of many viewers over generations with the same kind of evocative quality that one associates with the Mona Lisa. Once one has seen Mukul one can never forget him.<BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>My uncle who is also found of traveling and adventure both to real places and through the imagination, reminds me that journeys are fundamentally about a sense of quest. It is this sense of quest that your late father shared with you as a child, he has left you an inheritance beyond words. In your case probably your father himself was a journey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com