After more than 3 weeks of touring across India, my beautiful country, it is quite ironic that I finally get the time to blog in London. It seems like a sunny day, but I have learnt to never trust British weather. The sunlight peeps through the window, and sets the mood to post a few thoughts.
The Bharat yatra was a great experience. I have done a lot of meaningless things in my life, but this one is definitely going down as one with a fair deal of meaning to it. Across 3 weeks I walked through the thick forests of the Western Ghats, the black soil of the Deccan plateau , the towering Himalayas and the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains. In the final leg I drove 1500 kms over 3 days across South India. Everywhere I went I was greeted with the kindness of many people, eager to hear about my experiences( and almost always inviting me to have a cup of tea with them).
And now I find myself in London, an aspiring and eager-to-learn scholar. By the middle of next week I will be in the classrooms of the London School of Economics, interacting with possible leaders of the future, listening to popular and controversial leaders of the present, and learning about the travails of heroes of the past. The year ahead is filled with the promise of exciting opportunities for learning.
