Last weekend (25-26 Dec, 04), being a weekend around the full moon, I wanted to be in Kanyakumari to see the sun set and the moon rise together and to see the sunrise again next morning. This had been on plan for a few full moon weekends now, but every time something or the other comes up. But then came an official trip to Calicut, and I had to postpone my Kanyakumari trip to next weekend that would fall close to full moon. In Calicut on Thursday, I and two of my colleagues were sitting on a high rock besides the beach. As you would read in my last post which was posted around the same time when Tsunami’ would have been happening on Indian coasts, Satish kept repeating that the sea was making scary sounds and I chose to ignore him, saying that since it was pitch dark and there were no other sounds, and sea was obviously on a high tide, he was finding it scary.
Now after hearing and watching all the disaster caused by Tsunami, I am constantly reminded of the sounds that I heard in Calicut. I wanted to stay back in Calicut as it was a weekend and come back on Sunday, had I stayed back, I would in all probability be on some beach when the Tsunami hit the Calicut coast. It was all on the persistent of my other colleague that I came back with her and was safely in Bangalore on Friday itself.
Wondering, how life (or no life) could have been different had I stayed back or if no Calicut trip had happened and I was in Kanyakumari…:-)
How about going to andaman for the next week end and help out few....You write pretty good....hey can you write a post on what you think about the following...news... "Govt refuses foreign aid to fight disaster" ref: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/973923.cms
ReplyDeleteNo life wouldnt have made a difference, the world would simply go on just as it has for millions or years - but life, now life can be totally different to what has been....
ReplyDeleteHi Santosh,
ReplyDeleteI was just reading the same article in TOI, will attempt writing on it, may be over the weekend.
Cheers
-Anu
Hi Ramesh,
ReplyDeleteLife as a whole is not affected by any of these things, but if you go through these experiences, I am sure the life around you changes for ever. I can see this in the eyes on people around me who had seen the aftermath of the calamity.
-Anu
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This blog Could have been there… is a great place for Muslim. Thanks Anuradha.
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I too was in kanyakumari...
ReplyDeleteit was a nice experience...
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