Meanderings of a traveller: Amidst the mayhem..

Closer home, the 'Rupee' is caught in a free fall, the food security bill has just been passed, onion prices are still up, a girl has just been raped in the bylanes of Mumbai and another one is suffering at the hands of a godman in Gujarat.

I also hear that US is preparing to go to war against Syria, Egypt is still simmering, Arctic zone is greener than ever while just today the world is getting inspired by Martin Luther Kings's - "I have a dream" speech.

So amidst the mayhem, life continues. It is designed to be that way. And so while there is so much hatred, tensions, and issues that plague our world, let me take you to another one.

The world in which a wild elephant leisurely walks past me, where birds sit besides me and sing their melodies, where a troop of monkeys swing on the branches just outside my balcony, where the grass is the freshest shade of green, where each tree has a story to tell, and each passing cloud has time to come down and envelop me in all its morning glory, where the women of the village just go on their task of picking the tiny little tea leaves with their nimble fingers with a song on their lips and a smile on their face.

Such a world does exist. Up in the Nilgiris, in the not so faraway lands of Tamil Nadu, near the town of Connoor. Presenting the pristine landscape:

The morning Sun