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സുഹൃത്തേഅദ്ദേഹം പോയി. അപരിചിതമായ ഏതോ ലോകത്തേക്ക് യാത്രയായി. പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട മുരളിസാർ.ഒരു സുഹൃത്തയച്ച പത്രഭാഗത്തിൽ നിന്നാണ് ഞാനറിഞ്ഞത്, ഫേസ്ബുക്കിൽ ഫോട്ടോയും കണ്ടു. 83 വയസ്സുള്ള ഒരാളിന്റെ മരണവാർത്ത.ഫോട്ടോ എനിക്കുമനസ്സിലായില്ല. എനിക്കറിയാവുന്ന മുഖം അതായിരുന്നില്ല. 1979-ൽ ആണ് ആദ്യമായി അദ്ദേഹത്തെ കാണുന്നത്.റാഗിംഗ് പേടിച്ചു വിറങ്ങളിച്ച മനസ്സോടു ഹോസ്റ്റലിലേക്ക് നടന്നു പോയി അഡ്മിഷൻഫോം വാങ്ങിയത് ഇന്നും ഓർക്കുന്നു. വാർഡ്ന്റെ ചെയറിൽ ഇരുന്നു ചെറിയപുഞ്ചിയോട് ഇരുന്ന മുരളീസാറിനെ അന്നാണ് കണ്ടത്. ചെറിയബൈൽബോട്ടം പാന്റും മടക്കിവെച്ചഫുൾകൈയ്യൻ ഷർട്ടും ഒരു കൂളിംങ്ഗ്ലാസും, ചുരുണ്ടമുടിയും, പിന്നീടെന്റെ അടുത്ത … Continue reading മറക്കാനാകാത്ത ചില ഓർമ്മകൾ…. സോമശേഖരൻ

by JAYAPRAKASH P Himachal Pradesh – Lahaul & Spity Valley Day 13 -   September 22, 2013 : Patseo - Kaza : 225 km About an hour after starting from Patseo, we suddenly started seeing quite a bit of vegetation, and wow ! the beautiful village of Jispa came into view. Jispa (10,500 ft.) has all … Continue reading The Great Himalayan Drive – Part 3

by JAYAPRAKASH P Mesmerizing Ladakh – Leh, Nubra Valley and Pangong Lake The Ladakh region is at a high altitude, ranging from 11,000 to 18,000 feet. The rapid exposure to low amounts of Oxygen at high elevation can cause Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) with symptoms of head ache, nausea, tiredness and dizziness. The Srinagar - … Continue reading The Great Himalayan Drive – Part 2

by JAYAPRAKASH P `Our land is so barren, and the passes so high, that only the best friends or the fiercest enemies come to visit us’- An old Ladakhi saying. This travelogue is about a trip to one of the most amazing regions of our Country – Ladakh. The name Ladakh means the land of … Continue reading The Great Himalayan Drive – Part 1

Along this beautiful sea cost lies a sad story. The story of many George Floyids. This is Zanzibar which was a slave trading hub. Just behind the green bushes in the picture there is a sandy beach where the slaves kept in the slave chamber were brought and taken by boat to the ship docked. … Continue reading Origin of the Injustice: A tribute to George Floyd…………….Salin

Being a good child nothing much about schooling other than a few incidentsBeing a lazy soul there are few things which gives a sort of guilty feeling.My schooling started with the vidyarambham with the well known or supposed to be No 1. ആശാൻ of the village  who was known as കൂടത്തിങ്കലെ ആശാൻ. His students did … Continue reading My School Days ….. Salin

My schooling began at a small lower primary school close to home in Jawahar Nagar, a colony in Kowdiar, Trivandrum. Those were halcyon days indeed! Being the youngest of three daughters, my parents decided not to send me to the convent that my sisters attended, which was fine by me. Mine was just the second … Continue reading Memories of my School days…….. Vijaya Govindarajan

When I think of school, I think of the big shady compound filled with its old trees, the songs we used to sing, the games we used to play, the books we used to read, the long walk from home to school and the rainy days in June, Sr. Audrey and Sr. Violet who shaped … Continue reading My school days – Ten safe years in my life!…… Shanthi Ravindran

My schooling spread over Kannur at north to Poovar at southern tip of Kerala. My father who began his career as a Surveyor with Survey and Land records dept of Kerala used to have frequent transfers. Most of the time he took us with him, or sometimes for few months, left us at our ancestral … Continue reading Nostalgia of my School days …….. D.S.Nagesh

It was in 1983 spring time that we found ourselves in Jammu Railway station; well found ourselves is a gross understatement since we had been dreaming about our few days of ‘study tour’ in the tourist heaven of India – the state that Nehru called ‘Paradise on Earth’. Well, we did not have to justify … Continue reading Paradise on Highway 1…… A Nostalgic Recollection by Josy