For quite some time I have been inactive in placing fresh postings .Virtually it has been in a state of suspended animation. A variety of factors stood in the way. I feel very sorry and many a time I am afraid that I would go back to my initial equilibrium of not writing anything. Indeed there are many issues crying for attention. I am waging my own war in my mind to articulate on many themes .The absence of my Ph.D Scholar for one or two weeks introduced some lull in the activity of writing and for reasons known to God even after his return and despite his repeated goading, the pen refuses to accelerate . There is plenty of materials accumulated over a period of time in my countless dairies and lecture notes files which have got tremendous contextual relevance. Somehow I tend to postpone many things in life. I very much wish that blog writing does not fall into this category.
One of the prime villains of piece which distanced me from blog writing was the sudden unplanned planned trip to a few Arab countries and Colombo for a period of five days under a packaged tour arranged by a travel agency known to me. Never in my wildest dream that I had contemplated after my first European trip that an another trip would quickly follow suit. Despite leaving the visa at home in a typical characteristic feature of an absent minded professor, the wise and benevolent destiny operated through one airport officer at Chennai to get the visa by fax with hardly an hour for departure towards the destination of Dubai, the emerging tourist spot for Europeans and others in the recent times, I could clear all formalities and fly once again in a familiar route without much butterflies in the stomach. A colleague of mine also accompanied me. It was a crew of two dozen people drawn from business community of youngsters and some of them were young couples besides one retired old couple. I have not included my self into that list as I sincerely feel that I am sixty year old young and the aging process in the ensuing years will make me further young in thought process and attitude, given the company of young student friends in the campus in the remaining period of my life.
Unlike the previous academic trip to Europe, this was totally a different one and I was always in the company of people moving around. Five days travel with five star hotel accommodation and rich buffet food at Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Colombo, made me so exhausted that I have developed distaste for rich food – a feeling which I will continue to have for at least next two to three weeks. I had a very rich experience in talking to Pakistanis and Indians who are moving like brothers with tremendous harmony among themselves. If time and mood allow me I may re visit the blog and write more about this trip which opened up a new vista of experience, fun and a sense of adventure which included a Desert Safari and a photograph with a belly dancer.
One of the prime villains of piece which distanced me from blog writing was the sudden unplanned planned trip to a few Arab countries and Colombo for a period of five days under a packaged tour arranged by a travel agency known to me. Never in my wildest dream that I had contemplated after my first European trip that an another trip would quickly follow suit. Despite leaving the visa at home in a typical characteristic feature of an absent minded professor, the wise and benevolent destiny operated through one airport officer at Chennai to get the visa by fax with hardly an hour for departure towards the destination of Dubai, the emerging tourist spot for Europeans and others in the recent times, I could clear all formalities and fly once again in a familiar route without much butterflies in the stomach. A colleague of mine also accompanied me. It was a crew of two dozen people drawn from business community of youngsters and some of them were young couples besides one retired old couple. I have not included my self into that list as I sincerely feel that I am sixty year old young and the aging process in the ensuing years will make me further young in thought process and attitude, given the company of young student friends in the campus in the remaining period of my life.
Unlike the previous academic trip to Europe, this was totally a different one and I was always in the company of people moving around. Five days travel with five star hotel accommodation and rich buffet food at Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Colombo, made me so exhausted that I have developed distaste for rich food – a feeling which I will continue to have for at least next two to three weeks. I had a very rich experience in talking to Pakistanis and Indians who are moving like brothers with tremendous harmony among themselves. If time and mood allow me I may re visit the blog and write more about this trip which opened up a new vista of experience, fun and a sense of adventure which included a Desert Safari and a photograph with a belly dancer.
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