A Road



Two were walking down the street. Festivity was on the way, men and children with their mothers rejoiced among the adverse conscience. Every time those two   could find the happiness, some standards piled up on their hearts. It was a bizzare night, darkened one in between the pearcing brightness. For them it was a walk of disgrace in the other eyes, but a spark was evident , so simple but powerful. Every stone they were turning, rolled their fear into dungeon, in that turning there was smile only with a cluster of hope. People say when men love they can not think anymore different than loving, which they never  compromised.  The more they walked, everything got lonely, but it was a treat they were about to get from nature, what on earth is more blissful than a night with love to love under the thousand galaxies. Those festively arrangements never surpassed their coy and desire. Silence was never bigger than their exposure of eyes, which seemed to be travelled an ocean before and were waiting to dive again. That Street got more narrowed, as humans tend to be at times when the reverse is needed. That Street had given them  the time to evoke as they wanted. But time can be all and even can be nothing at all. As it passed , sky got wider and enough to get inspired through the star light, the drops of love was dripping down the streets , melting the stars. There they got more strength and night began to grow bigger and wiser. Other activities were getting stopped, because they did not want to be the night spinner, they wanted to confine that in a room full of darkness and hopelessness where families of social norms live. The abonden outer was never small and heartless for those two men, city at night they thought to be strange but that strangeness was way more lovely than any strange veil they put everyday. It was all they had for that moment which was a life itself in it. The colours changed with the moments of sheer splendid where they found themselves. The faded festive prisms belonged nothing but behaved as an orphan who didn’t live but had days of unsolved mysteries, alike the fear of those unwinged doves. That moment didn’t lie but chose to conceal the eyes of unmatched people, who never measured them in that same cup, it might had been the most difficult part of life. At a glance they saw a girl walking down the path, life might have took her there where she was in her own self. These words were not mouthed but they just saw her eyes wide open in chaos of opinion, and all came forth. She too passed that Lane of selfishness and it’s not quite wrong always. Now waves have gone by but the remains of giving stood still there like a pillar of strength and love. They didn’t know the name of that path and they didn’t intend too. Beauty was there forever but for those who sought only realized.  They left that part of them there where they lived only. 

Ghagharia : The Prayag to Ascent



Life is always stretched up on balance sheets by us. But those never gave us the joy as the ventures in nature give. I never hesitated to move on myself because I acquired that golden rule of change from the trees I met, the mountains I laughed with and the stars I glanced at.


No one has the ability to glorify Nature, it is not meant to be, all the things only do matter is the feelings and its reciprocation by ourselves.
On my reaching to Ghagharia or Govinddham, I did not need to accustom myself, I felt that those pines knew that I would come and they made it in my way. The clouds whom I was talking to earlier, may have sent the message. It is a town with much of a business, hotels and other pleasure arrangements, though they all know, everything is temporary and that feeling of giving up or leaving you will never see in their eyes. To them, its life hard in mountains, survival is everyday dose.

A cultural ‘prayag’ was on its height, I could meet many people and people means a library in each of them, every contemplation, complain, disturbance  and happiness are laid out. Being in the Gurudwara, I got to see some unseen people who were lost in the majoritarian world of fame.

The scattered clouds were representing their wishes to go down, to meet their dearest river, like the diverse human emotions were ready to melt down in the vast emptiness they have left, in the superior existence of Nature the hollows could be intimidated. And I go there always to seek that intimidation which will give me the greatest pleasure which I will not get by anything.


Govindghat to Ghangharia : Preamble to Eden



The moment I came to the confluence of Alaknanda and Lakshman Ganga, I realized the change within Garhwal. An abode of Sikh pilgrimage attracted thousands of pilgrims every year. We do often go to analyse the purpose of those but do we want to justify ours by sighting theirs. Every journey in the mountains I take is the most serious one and there I find myself every moment transforming at the most personal level.


The hospitality of the Gurudwara did not take me in surprise but it was overwhelming. To feel that extravaganza I would suggest every traveller to pass a day here. Sitting by the window at the inn, nothing could pierce that river sound, it seemed to take everything with it. NH58 was a strange route, many overhangs are ready to take you in them, but that strangeness has given it, the ultimate beauty.

On the entrance there was a gate, where they welcome me to the valley of flowers. It was a 13 kilometre walk to Ghangharia which has another name of Govinddham after Sikh Guru Govind Singh Ji. The road was but I could feel that I was among nature, playing with it, respecting it. By the valley , the Lakshman Ganga or Hem Ganga could be seen, this is the place where hope resides and a siren of upcoming devastation stays. Now it goes within its joy but some stories of Pulna which village was destroyed by this very river, got to me in sadness and indifference too. Life teaches lesson, when nature does its due, its always that much dramatic. The Bhyundar village too was carrying the same blunt tale of loss and renewal. When I entered into Ghangharia, it was a different town which I thought of.



Walking by that lean stream, was a joy at peace. 

Bhyundar : A Forgotten Ballad



The lonely hike has always been a treat to those who gets enriched in lone being. For me, this walk was for my living the lives I have never had, which I seek everytime to empathize in self portrayal. 

Here I name a place which is a song itself. the song of hundreds of rustics, where the lyrics are life and melodies are the breath. I went up to the forested halt, Ghangharia , there I met a girl of substance yet not a pro. But the real reflection and pixels of life was full. That girl took me to a hundred year old story where love resided, lovers lost in non existence. To me it was a long lost tale but for her a life of yesterday. 

There is a village named Bhyundar, which got its name from a folklore which still stays in the Garhwal and its wind, water and hills. The girl was on a regular yearly preparation of a festivity named Nandashtami, the pride of Bhyundar. She waits for her mate to bring those flowers which had a good omen "Bhramhakamal". The village is pouring in the joy of the unity and peacefulness. The lass is sitting by the banks of the Lakshman Ganga, a river which gives all to them and they have never been ungrateful to it. The beauty of the stream could not made her consoled but her eyes were on the slopes from where her man will come.
Joy is to her that , she places her head on his lap, and hum a bit , it was her world , incomparable to the different worlds of luxury. The shower is bringing its zeal to the stream and her heart beats as trembles the body from within. 

Among the clouds and rain shower, from an unseen land, the man comes up with a heap of God's message on his back. This is the most soothing green to her eyes. Tears could burst but the upcoming start ups of festival blushes her out immensely. It is a poem of anthology of Bhyundar. Poetry was there on the eyes of hope and despair, and even in the empty trembling hands of that girl. It is a clear afternoon now, the snows are peeking through the valley sides, this beauty was a familiar treat to the people of Bhyundar, some rejoiced with it, some blamed it for their fate or hardship. 

Beauty of nature has its cost of contradiction, that she knows very well but her mate is on the way to live another life which he has dreamt all over his being. Opinions hardly collide and they merely win in front of the vast love. They go to their home from where one can see that hollow sky with infinite wishes, after preparing things in the "pakka" temple. sitting by the window pane, her man sing the Garhwali song which is being sent to that skyscape of limits and unlimited desires. Hollow sky is not reciprocating , she does not know about that. 

Sleeping on the wooden floor with their hands as the most comfortable pillow, weaving is being completed of their future moments, though they know all are uncertain and even their existence but tangled love which is all over their being is now gasping but  in pleasure. 
A night as dark as the blackhole but not a magnet, is bringing rain into the village, every drop feels so heavy on the positivity. All are trying to make their ways into the chaos of confusion. 
The girl wakes up, and can not see him beside her, she is searching him like lunatic. 


Cries are inferior to the Nature, that gusting wind is making everybody understood of its power of mercilessness. She suddenly looks up to the other side of the river. There she sees him, but Lakshman Ganga and Bhyundar Ganga's confluence washes out every sight she could see. Houses are floating like leaves and dreams too in that water. A sudden silence kill everybody there, and for her , life stops as heart stops for her man.

That night changed everything for her, she became a hollow. Those vast open eyes I could see and could feel. It is never end. like sorrow, happiness too.  Now people go by the prior village and those unseen eyes can not see , and it is not meant to be seen by all, you will see if u seek to . Now she comes to Ghangharia everyday to work for an NGO, Life did not end but a sorrow is living by that stream. 


Confluences : A flow to reemergence



This journey has poured me into water but it never made me wet because I was not intended rather I owned the Nature. I tell you , how I made possible a dropped plan into existence. Mountains have a magnet, I am sure everybody knows about that and I am a victim of that force everytime in a positive sense though. Dropping off my heritage walk, I preferred to continue the trail to my mother whom I belong and where I should be.



This trail has been the most bumpiest of all, you guys will know later surely, but it was it which I wanted to have in unexpected senses. These have thrilled me everytime and it will till my last wind. I did a cross check of my predrafted plan, and commissioned it on my own heart. Travelling is not about only seeing new places  but to have an impact to re discover ourselves into another being, to feel the change every moment when I am in trans.

The idea emerged when I was in Varanasi which is another by flow of Ganges, and I headed towards the edge Haridwar where Ganges meets the grasses of plain and curses. This city has its own typical aura where I have always been disillusioned and never had that clarity of myself there, do not know may be I have a pre-eminent past there. This query never did complete because it always put me on time lapse, so it can hide itself.



Crossing the confluence of plain and hill, I moved myself forcefully for Govindghat , a pilgrim. On this long 300 Km trail on bus and several transports so many varsities have changed, so much hardships have been seen, the small hamlets of Kumaon and the rugged hostilities of Garhwal.  So many Prayags that if I can put those on a scape, confluences can flood the world with its richness of beauty and human relationships.



In that drizzle and light shower,  at first I go beyond Devprayag, where Alaknanda , the daughter meets the Bhagirathi , and creates the mighty Ganges. After crossing , I felt that I have moved against time which never existed though.



Devprayag pulls the quantum of Rudraprayag , where Alaknanda meets Mandakini. The name has its significance but to me it was that river which has given its all but I never cared for it . Passing the anger of Rudraprayag , I confronted Nandaprayag where Alkananda meets Nandakini a princess. Meandering through Chamoli , a Garhwali heartland, another Prayag tells its story , the Karnprayag , where Alaknanda meets Pindar, a rough stream.

On this pilgrim route I ended unto Govindghat, a town of cross believe and peace where Alaknanda gets a companion Lakshman Ganga. Going by these blessings have never been easy and no criteria is valid , only the intention of remembering the true self. Commencement will come now.
Journey continues .......

Magnolia : The Poet of Himalayas



As I believe. walk in Nature is a walk of peace. Everyone must make a time to dwell among their fears, complexes and silent happiness by travelling in the dome but living on the edge itself. When I entered this happening town where cross culture is a fashion but language was a monopoly, a peculiar identity crisis gulped me in unconscious moment, Suddenly , it was realised that the commencement has been going well and I am adapting quite greatly. 



The aura of the place has everything to do with its people and their behaviour. Coming to know about the flora of this very connecting town though solitary , I heard from my guide that, there is a flower named Magnolia which blossoms in the late March up to early June and a very common but to me was a queer fact was that it blossoms from low lands to higher altitude. 


Sublimely I realised that it was more than a mere flower, may be it has started so many stories. There it may have created that bond between a school girl and a rustic boy. And I could get that flavour from my guide's blushed cheeks. Magnolia has a descriptive and a emotive nature where it can express everything in one smile. Loving or being indifferent had turned into peace when this flower had intervened. Like it rises from that cocoon of greatness on to the solitary and yet mesmerizing mountains. This changes are references to the vast sea of human senses where a one chooses to be with another one with everything they had but ends up in the lonliness yet to be joyful but with maturity. It is quite funny to be referred an old to be complete but that ageing has to be with some validation of creativity in life and different sides of a life. 


In a very cloudy morning at Manebhanjan, I saw a school which happened to be in a valley and beside Singalila National Park, different villages send their buds here to have their part in life. One day a girl was coming through the downhill of Chitrey to this school, and after seeing the lass , a boy with strange attitude which had nothing to do with his being, tried to converse a bit. But the ringing bell could ruin that desire in a moment. He did not give up though his eyes were stuck in that building which became his love as if it was his everything and he could leave anything to get there. In the afternoon when cloud was not any hindrance, the boy went straight up to the girl and gave her a poet, Magnolia. He told her, "I am giving you my poet to make you his muse." It was everything which could bring a smile to that girl. On the next day the boy stood on that cliff side fro where he could be living or dead, the girl came but with a paper on her hand. saying "I mused your poet". 


Virgin Tale of Chandrabhaga: A Beach in Eastern Orissa


Always winter has come to me as a giver, last winter too, in the morning when I was getting suffocated in Puri, a eastern coastal pilgrim town, I took the refuge to visit an old diamond of Indian architectural panorama along the eastern reigns. It was a familiar road to every by passer and even a hot spot too. The more people enters, the derivation gets more diverse. Some were daily dwellers and some are seasoned travellers.

From Puri bus stand taking a tour bus, I was told primarily that in the late morning when the sun would glorify himself upon its temple I would be among the thousands to witness the beauty, but the thing which was spinning in my mind was to see that untold, unravelled sand, Chandrabhaga.

Taking the east coast road towards the eastern end of Orissa, I could see some reserve forests along the sea line even the famous barren olive turtle beach. If I was trekking that silence I would venture into the woods and smell those leaves.

Suddenly my eyes were resting upon the mild woods and with me, sun was also playing there hide and seek, Having been tasted the beams, I got down from bus there at a stop ans went on to a neverland of unarmed nature where the waves were chasing the sands, Even stepping onto the sands was an adventurously crafted jungle way. Where trees make space for humans to pave their feet, and sands bring the heated carpet , then the final lap is to go to the pleasantry of sea. Its colour was contrasting to the blazing sun and yet restable too.

Unheard winds were calling me to fly with them to those mid sea fishermen, I was not brave enough to do so but the inner eye was already there catching fishes. People say that once this land was visible from that great sun temple, Konark. I think our corrupt visions have killed every visionary of virgin places, I wish could be there in 60s too.

Over that gleaming horizon, some sailors were sharing their trade stories of culture and modernity, loss and happiness. I did empathize but envy more . At the end of all, I did collect sea shells with some kids of whom I was sibling of our mother nature. I could say the family united on the lonely beaches of Chandrabhaga.