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Good morning Vindhyanagar

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S Bera / 2 yrs ago / spacer
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Good morning Vindhyanagar

 

Slowly the spring is arriving here at Vindhyanagar. The morning still smells cool and chill. This is the best time ever here in this tiny township. The Sun is yet to come above horizon and the whole area is still under the wrap of lazy Sunday night. This is the time when I start my jogging along the outermost ring road of NH3. The deep bright Venus hangs like a lantern in the eastern sky. If you look carefully below Venus ,you can find a small speck of light visible there – yes, that's the first planet Mercury. In no other time that's visible.

 

Slowly I move past the 'Chula gate'. Few people are walking down the road with milk can in their hands. Some is carrying a baby in their lap. Certainly they are heading towards the milkman's den. The walking in the process is their additional health endeavor.

 

I remember too used to carry my little daughter on my lap on the way to milkman's house. She was yet to learn speaking but her fingers were always busy directing me where we have to go. Many times I had to go backward because she had spotted a red ribbon hanging from a branch of a tree. The fifteen minutes walk was never completed even in half an hour time and several times we came back empty handed because the milkman had already home delivered our milk. Now my little daughter is in college but the memory comes back fresh all the way when I find a father is going to fetch milk with a kid in his lap.

 

The green patch on my left has been thinned down to a great extent. The cutting of tree is one reason but the other reason is most of these deciduous tree have shed their leaves at this time of the year. The roads are littered with their dry leaves all around.

 

Someone once told me very right that this is the best time to sight animals in the reserve forests. The wild animals cannot always hide themselves successfully behind the thin forest cover and this state boasts of many beautiful reserve forests.

 

Group of parrots scurry the sky aimlessly like small children. Their combined shrill voice even choke the voice of passing vehicles on the lonely streets now. I cross the Thana gate and come on the main road. On the empty road suddenly a car passes at a shivering break neck speed. Ever since I came living in this small township I find people mostly ignore traffic rules. Many small have happened but still people are very callous about following traffic rules. I do value my life so I continue jogging on the oncoming side of the road so that I can spot any mad vehicle well in time. At the corner of the community center the elderly uncle is already out on the street now. I wished him and then moved towards the temple.

 

On the way I cross a group of walkers , some of them are my colleagues . We waved hands and moved on. Soon I arrive at my favorite spot of Vindhyanagar – the temple area. The big eucalyptus trees at the back is the nest for hundreds of parrots. Their frolic random movements from one branch to other like little children can make anybody mesmerized. Sometimes the green leaves and their green body are so completely mixed up that either you see all green leaves or you find hundreds of green parrots sitting on top of the trees.

 

The sun is still few minutes away from horizon. The winter is receding but the temperature still remains cool and AC like. Few walkers can always be found in heavy jackets , scarf and caps.

 

The lake of the adjacent lake park it still and silent. The white water vapor slowly oozes from the it's surface. During peak of winter the entire lake gets filled with white vapor. Sometimes when I become late and the Sun starts rising behind the bushes on the other side of the lake ,the reddish pink light makes the entire area purple and dream like.

 

Soon I cross the temple and came near the GM bungalow. Some solar lights are fitted here for eco friendly illuminations but the designer while erecting those high panels forgot the fact that every solar panel needs to be cleaned from dust for effectiveness. I doubt these dirty panels really works !

 

A young couple is walking near the GM Bunglow. Now the sun have started rising and the first light of sun is getting reflected on the newly painted D type quarters here. The entire area seem like under red fire.

 

The guards of the Delhi Public School on my left have wake up and getting ready for another hectic day but I won't go this side, I take a right turn and moved towards the outer ring road of NH3. The roads here have been repaired and newly laid. I continued my last phase of jogging along the boundary wall.

 

A man is walking fast ahead of me with a milk can in his hand. I know where he will go. He will duck below the boundary wall and along the dry walls of the drain he will reach the other side and make a shortcut to the milkman's house at the nearby village. I often found him at this time.

 

I am on the last half kilometer stretch to my quarter. Sun is up and casting my long shadow on the boundary walls. Not many people come to this side of the road. A daring pair of koel is still playing in the middle of the road and a seven sister bird is making shrill noise in search of it's sisters. Amidst all I'm making own journey. My own journey ? Yes this is my own journey for making my body fit and well.

 

We have friends , families , even some have plenty of wealth but to make our body healthy and fit one has to carry out his own exercise plan. My jogging is my plan and no one can do that for me and who can deny that fact every journey of our life starts with our own body & mind. Having everything plenty but ending up on the hospital bed and counting days has no meaning at all.

 

Therefore,

 

Good morning Vindhyanagar & happy exercising.

 

S. Bera

 


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