When i was a child one day in my dads shop when he opened it there was an unexpected visitor . Some ran with fear few with excitement . It was a big yellow rat snake . In another place it would have reached the netherworld for Menaka Gandhi was not active at that time and snakes used to get killed on sight . But for one man it would have been killed but he caught it and i still remember he put it in a big cage and it was the "pet " for quite sometime in our ancestral home . His interest in animals was infectious and even this day animals i like very much and i am not afraid of snakes .
I like music but i still remember it was not malayalam or even english music that i used to first get excited when i was a child . It was in a language even now i dont understand a word . It was in Konkani language and i still remember everyday i used to listen to it . Where did this Goan music land in my house for we have hardly any anglo-indian or goan relatives . That too was brought home by my uncle in "those " days when to get goan music you had to go to goa .
Thats where the BSA cycle comes in . He went in it and brought the konkani music cassette to our home . Ya whats the big deal . Think the distance from middle of kerala to goa and in this "adventurous " era people go by cars to goa driving . But he used to cycle this distance mainly as an adventure though he had some work there .
I had blogged about my motorcycle journeys and canoeing and this adventure streak i got from my uncle (fathers brother ) . And dont be surprised when bachata music ( from south america ) plays at 100 decibels at my home . Though my uncle dont endorse the noise levels :) this konkani , bachata music streak also i got from him .
And the belief that music doesnt discriminate between people , that travel makes you see other people as part of same mankind and loving animals as part of our world is one that i fully endorse ...
I love goan girls too :) more on that later ...(joking i dont know any goan girl )
I like music but i still remember it was not malayalam or even english music that i used to first get excited when i was a child . It was in a language even now i dont understand a word . It was in Konkani language and i still remember everyday i used to listen to it . Where did this Goan music land in my house for we have hardly any anglo-indian or goan relatives . That too was brought home by my uncle in "those " days when to get goan music you had to go to goa .
Thats where the BSA cycle comes in . He went in it and brought the konkani music cassette to our home . Ya whats the big deal . Think the distance from middle of kerala to goa and in this "adventurous " era people go by cars to goa driving . But he used to cycle this distance mainly as an adventure though he had some work there .
I had blogged about my motorcycle journeys and canoeing and this adventure streak i got from my uncle (fathers brother ) . And dont be surprised when bachata music ( from south america ) plays at 100 decibels at my home . Though my uncle dont endorse the noise levels :) this konkani , bachata music streak also i got from him .
And the belief that music doesnt discriminate between people , that travel makes you see other people as part of same mankind and loving animals as part of our world is one that i fully endorse ...
I love goan girls too :) more on that later ...(joking i dont know any goan girl )
This uncle of yours and we, together, just read the interesting adventures of your uncle in his past. Anyway it is a pleasure knowing this uncle of yours in person
ReplyDeleteand indeed he is one extraordinary person on this earth.
Yes he is a different personality . But one thing he has in common with his brother (my dad ) is extreme humility .
ReplyDeleteAt one time he was inseparable from his music instruments some of them handmade like flute .. remarkable
He came all the way to Pune on that trip. And he was full of energy after that cycle ride!
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