a double life

It's not easy living a double life,

Within oneself it's like a strife....

It's hard to improve your situation

If you feel you lack the tools to do so...

It becomes easier to drag your body...

Being numb and moving with the crowd....

yet trying to find your way aimlessly.

So what if you don't want to be a cliche?

You are either alone or your one of them..

Either ways you are a stranger in the crowd.

An adventure in Abu !

....lying down on a bench under a large fig, light filtered through the canopy on a mostly blue sky with faint wisps of clouds. The smell of rotis being fried in the air making me hungrier by the second. Our Obscure Abu trip with Bike N Hike was coming to an end. Only one adventure remained. In the past 36 hours we had trekked for more than 5 hours covering a distance of around 9-10 kms. This trip had totally shattered my myth about Mt. Abu!

Mt. Abu Wildlife Sanctuary is a 4 hrs drive from Ahmedabad. It is not really known as a Wildlife Sanctuary but a hill station with booze to commoners and ignorant fools like me. A chill in the air outside informed us that we were now far from the hot urban chaos of the Ahmedabad city, driving on winding hilly roads of Abu towards our campsite.

A bad day...

What makes a day bad? What are the essential ingredients, mixed in precise measured quantities under appropriate conditions of pressure and temperature, that are the recipe for a horrible day?I wouldn't know. I just know the feeling you get at the bottom of your stomach when you feel your little carved out security is jeopardized and things are slowly inching towards disaster making every moment worst than the one before.  The feeling is even worse when your body starts showing signs of fatigue even though the day is just getting started.

A day starts off as normally as any other, giving no signs of the devastation lying minutes or hours away from that perfect morning. An e-mail (that you forgot to check yesterday) can trigger the dissent, or just a passing remark by a friend (that actually should't have affected you). The source of distress is most probably rooted in the workplace of your guilt ridden mind.

Some misadventures and Thol!

What a wonderfully eventful morning, it turned out to be  today! I visited the Thol Bird Sanctuary after a long time. Started late from Ahmedabad and had to wait at a railway crossing for two trains to pass. I decided to do what I always wanted to! Take pictures of the moving train. 

A monsoon trip to remember...

Steve Irvin.....Austin Stevens.....Jeff Corwin....rings a bell?? All you 'Animal' (Planet) Fanatics out there, I am sure you would get an adrenalin rush just by listening to those names!! I am not lying when I say I had an action packed weekend! I have always wanted to experience wild creatures in their true habitat and I thank Vipul Ramanuj and his Bike N Hike team for making it possible.

In this boring room.....

Staring outside from this boring room...

I see the rain coming down, washing the earth below...

At a distance, the grass looks greener and trees more fresh...

All that I can imagine is this, sittin in this boring room....

People moving about, doing their work, oblivious to my state...

No one bothers as I stir from my slumber and walk towards the closed window... 

Zindigi ki rahon mein aksar aisa hota hai........

Zindigi ki rahon mein aksar aisa hota hai.. 
kuch lamhe dil ko chuu jaate hai.

Aksar ye lamhe rahan mein chav bankar aate hai ..
zindigi se dhup mita jate hai.

Par tum,inn lamhon ke sahare jeena chod do..

Zindagi inn lamhon ke bina bhi haseen hai, 
jara haske dekhlo..

Free your mind !

A free mind is a brilliant thing. When at its peak, free thinking gives a adrenaline rush to the system. It's almost like floating in empty space with no apparent end, no visible horizon. Once you get addicted to it there is no looking back. 

So now the question arises, what do you do to get a free mind?  Can I get it from the counter no. X of the Y mall? You can try looking. These days, anyways, anything from diaper to cars is easily available and that too in installments at a mall near you!

Now, here's my guide to a free mind....just one word ....W A L K !!