Two worlds
Of late,I never muster enough courage to look at the map of India….why you may wonder….
The reason is quite simple…….You mark Delhi with a dot and mark Trivandrum with another dot and join the two
and viola!the line you have drawn covers almost the entire stretch of our country.and this reminds me how far away I am from my home town,Trivandrum.Now for those who are not familiar with God’s own country,I must mention that it’s an awesome place.No…I am not part of the promote tourism campaign.I merely want to compare and contrast what life down south or madrass(as the popular notion is).
Brrr….i can barely blog………it’s so cold.Back home the temperature remains steady at 25 degrees all round the year.Yes my poor south Indian soul is crying aloud!As for food….well lets say Delhi is Roti,Dal and Paneer.I really do miss the typical Southy cuisine-steaming hot idlis drenched with spicy sambhar.My friends here did attempt to cheer me up by taking me to ‘South Indian’ Hotels….but I decry then to be outrageous imitations.And last but not least…lifestyles….the Delhi lifestyle here is zooming at supersonic speed.I wonder if people would take a second off their busy schedules..to take a deep breath and say…I am glad to be well and alive.
Every time I look about the plush greenery at IIT around me…it brings memories of home back…Yes I miss my home.Which makes me ponder…was it worth it?Coming all this distance…and then images flash around me….of the all the hard work we put in at DMS,of the ocean of knowledge swimming around us,waiting to be gulped,of the night-outs(I am a self-proclaimed lounge-o-maniac),of all the seminars and workshops we have,life at hostel and the never-ending assignments,of Our upcoming Bfest Parivartan; and then I realize,I have fallen in love with DMS ! and a voice inside me says…..Yes the distance was definitely worth it.
Lalitha Ramanathan
Class of 2009
You have hit the nail in the head in the last few lines. These changes of habits, lifestyle etc… is all too little a price to pray for what we get outhere. And ya, what you have written applies to the whole country too, for India is a land of diversities and no matter how much we dislike certain diversities, at the end of the day, we all relish them and are happy about them in some way!