The Discovery Of India

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Every place has a unique beauty. Even the driest of all places have beauty! And beauty which cannot be described is the ultimate beauty. Pardon me, for if the same sentence is used against the point it is trying to prove, I will not continue in the same lien.

India Incredible! Slogan and ads had given a very bright picture of My Country. If I say that is all true then it will be a politicians word. The slogan and ads came around the time I was going to pass out from college. After that I had the good fortune of traveling across the length and breadth of my country.

Now I had gone from Bangalore to North Karnataka twice, both in different seasons. The place was so similar but yet different. First thing I, and you also, will notice is the expanse of land without much cover and the level of earth. The road winds through the plain, but still there will not be a bend for a mile and more. A trip in evening from Davengere to Hubli will leave you spell bound. You are in a desert practically, only there is water, shrubs and some odd sight of goat herd heading back to wherever they started from in the morning(lucky goats). After sitting for more than 6 hours in a rickety bus(thanks to NWKRTC), suddenly when you see glimmer of lights very far away, you feel like travelers of yore seeing the lights of city in distance! For another half an hour or so, you still see the lights afar, but the city is yet to be reached. Then you realize these are the halogens shimmering in the meandering highway. It just strikes your mind that Hubli-Dharwar is one of the most busiest city in the whole of Karnataka, full of teeming business. Hubli, A very beautiful old city which has to be described a lot more and will be done later, is still far.

Each second traveled through had left very beautiful memories. This particular evening really made me think of the explorers and business travelers of past, about the elation of reaching the destination, the nearing of long and arduous travel that started from getting the wares made, which still continues in the cities where it all started many centuries before.

Labels: North Karnataka, Travel

# posted by Rajasekhar @ 7:03 AM