Say Cheese …: )

Few days ago I was travelling to Goa. We were passing thru the picturesque view of Anmod ghat. I was travelling in the traditional transport, the KSRTC bus. And what a bus it was! (Let us see if ministers /politicians decide to travel by such common transports as “Austerity measures”:0). On the way a foreigner (with his Indian guide) had his taxi parked by a view point. He was busy capturing the beauty of nature in his camera. He turned around and saw our bus. Suddenly he started taking snaps of our ride. Maybe he had never seen anything of the sort or maybe he thought we were travelling in something ancient. He was taking pics with a sense of awe.

I couldn’t help but notice that most of my fellow passengers instead of smiling at the camera were busy in the most common bus custom, spitting out of window. I thought wow, what an image to remember for Mr. Foreigner. The saying “Atithi Devo Bhava” (Guests are equivalent to God) looks better scriptures and Ads. (Sorry Aamir, I alone couldn’t have stopped 20 odd eager to spit people from performing their birth right). If I was the guide I would have asked my client to take pics of similar bus and tippers carrying iron ore going at speeds of 70kmph+ in the ghat region.(Very difficult for a inexperienced guy to imagine).

On a different note, Indian government is more concerned about a trial proceedings and a criminal brought to justice in foreign land rather than activities threatening its security at the eastern border. Well what can I say! The government has better intelligence information. Maybe there is some good hidden in these “brief Indian visits”. Anyways I would like to advice Mr. Foreigner not to visit the eastern border regions becoz of these “visits”. And he should not visit the western border if he listens to Indian governments hidden warnings. Also if you decide to stay in central India and wait till common wealth games next year, then think again. Better pack your bags. God knows when these three issues will see some progress or maybe even he doesn’t.