When I woke up, for a moment I could not recollect where I was. The huge 4-poster bed, brown tiles on the ceiling, the arched doorways, birds raising Cain outside... As I lowered my legs to the floor slabs, I remembered. Waking up in DeeGee's Palakkad house "Rashmi" (nobody knows who that is, by the way), will always be an experience. We had tea sitting outside, with the sunlight filtering in through the leaves of fragrant frangipani. Today we would be pushing off as soon as we were ready, all four of us, travelling to the campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, set in the foothills at Ettimadai. We would drop the Gees there and proceed to Coimbatore. AVV campus at Ettimadai (9.30 am) The one hour drive to AVV passed in a blur, blessed by the sonorous chants of hanuman chalisa by the Gees. The cloud-topped Aravalli mountains kept approving watch all the way, even when we passed through the ghats into Tamil Nadu. We bid fond farewell to K...
A month long travel through the southern states of India.