A short, impulsive trip to Kerala has materialised into fond memories, a mild fever thanks to the freezing cold in the train, and a few CDs of Salil Chowdhury's music. The memories and the music are trying to overpower the fever and the aches as I write this.
I don't know what is it about Kerala that draws me there every now and then. In the past five years, I must have spent more number of days in the state than many of my Malayali colleagues have on their visits home. If I had my way, I would spend my retirement there, perhaps in a single-storeyed house in Alwaye or a cottage in Wayanad...
That's how I began a new post last night, and went on to write some thousand words -- on Kerala, Salil Chowdhury and, of course, myself -- before I lost the text while trying to format it. The first two paras could be retrieved because I had IM-ed them to a friend. The rest is gone. It was not meant to be published, I guess.
5 comments:
:( I hate it when I lose a post!
The post is lost... n so are u while describin God's Own Country, i guess..which part of kerala did u visit? I'm in Kottayam, and it sure is a lazy, sleepy town!
I have had this happen to me once. I hate it when it happens! Kerala is a good place. The govt knows how to promote tourism, a field where Karnataka is far, far behind
Akruti is leaving blogworld,Please,lets all stop her from going.we are going to very blog and asking them to stop her.
Prerona: Thanks for the sympathy :)
rim: I was in Trivandrum. Never been to Kottayam so far, but I will soon.
Deepa: Agree with you on Karnataka. Am thinking of making a trip sometime soon: to lesser-known places. Dom Moares and RK Narayan have written beautiful accounts.
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