It has been 3 months ! 3 months since my University closed for summer, 3 months since my crazy punting night on the river, 3 months since I arrived in the smoky, dusty city of Pune, 3 months since the first swine flu scares in Pune, 3 months since the beginning of my dismal internship experience, it has been 3 months !
So after 3 months I find myself still in Pune, at my grand parents house. I have run away from all the chaos, shouting, nagging, taunting, blaming and endless jobs at my aunt's house. Perhaps I have over exagerated the conditions at the house down below, but sometimes exagerration helps to put the point accross. I have found it very difficult to find any discipline in my life for the last 3 months, and this has resulted in a downturn in both my physical and mental enthusiasm. The internships didnt do anything for my enthusiasm either ! Those 2 months of industrial training or internship were a real grind, and left me feeling ... well ... hopeless.
Oh darn ! Look at me, I've written such a miserable introduction ! Let me now turn to the positive. The holiday in Rajastan was good ! 10 days away from Pune, a much needed diversion. But again, this trip to Udaipur, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Agra and Delhi , was more of a trip for my mind than one for my body. What do I mean by that ?! What I mean is, although we did a lot of walking and sweating, much of the enjoyment from this trip came to me from my own imagination of events and the past. As we walked through the old palaces and heard the great stories of Emperors, battles and their lifestyle, I could not help recreating the past in my mind. I dreamt of the great battle between the Mehar and the Mughals, the life of the Mehars as they moved from palace to palace at each turn of the season, the great meetings they must have had, their ambitions, their thoughts and dreams that culminated in the creation of the Taj Mahal, and some of the other great structures we saw. I spent 10 days in the past, and I didnt even need H G Wells or his Time machine ! So you see, it was a journey of the mind like so many of the journeys I have gone on in my life. I am a frequent flyer when we talk of mental destinations.
