Hi everyone, Just returned from a industrial visit
from bangluru.
Well there is always a different feeling we get from
every city, I get a comfy and habitual feel from my hometown miraj. Whenever I
go to Mumbai I feel so exotic because of all the rush and shimmering lights and
the entire surrounding there, which absolutely proves Mumbai to be the City of
Lights. As I am living at pune now, I feel so relaxed with all the safe and
secured environment and also it’s the most important phase of my life, pune
feels like I really belong here.
And now I have visited bangluru I would like to say
that it feels so natural and still beautiful metro city.
First of all, some things about my travel from pune
to bangluru. We were 170 students altogether going by train to bangluru. We
spent entire day and a night at train. Well I personally find train journey so
exhausting but it was fun to be with friends, for once feeling responsible and
yet surrounding was really funny and enjoyable. We all were so excited to visit
bangluru. We reached at the train station of bangluru at 9.15 am. We had buses
there to take us to our first hotel Banglore Gate.
The first thing we all noticed was the board on the
train station saying “bangluru- the garden city”. And it really seems true as
there are gardens at every 15 minutes. The roads were clean like the clean
slates and air wasn’t at all feeling smoky or polluted like pune or Mumbai but
it was clean and fresh like village.
As we reached to the hotel, we were really happy
with all our arrangements there, as well as tasty breakfast with south Indian
delicacies. We had our breakfast at around 10 am and then we were instructed to
get ready for industry visit and the museum visit.
We left the hotel after lunch to visit the
vishweshwarriyya museum. Well it’s a museum where you will find so many
interesting things as how they actually work. It was really amazingly displayed
and filled with so many interesting facts. I especially liked the big pen and
the whispering dish- where if you whispered from one end of a dish your friend
on the other side can hear you perfectly.
After this we visited the Iskcon temple. First it
was really seeming as placed in the middle of city, but once we went inside it
was really beautiful. We had to keep our cameras and bags outside and then pass
through the security check before entering to the temple.
The most memorable thing about the iskcon temple was
the walk on those tile and we had to chant the mantra with each step. At first
for few steps no one was paying much attention, but once we approached to the
temple closer everyone was carefully stepping on the tile and chanting the
mantra aloud, it was like the amazing thing to notice to see a person who
doesn’t seem so spiritual chant with each step loudly. Once we got exactly at
the top of the steps we saw the city blinking in the lights below. And it was
so beautiful view as the sun has just set on the horizon. And the huge top of
temple was shimmering in the golden light.
This is the thing I always like about these places
as they give you an out of place feeling, we just feel so detached from all the
reality around us, and all we wanna do is to disappear in that feeling.
My one uncle left his job and well settled life to
join the hare Krishna group. My all relatives thinks he must be crazy to do so,
but whenever I think about this I feel as, if just being in that calm and
soothing feeling of worship makes us feel so relaxed then how it would feel to
be there 24/7. If he thinks that what his life is then it must be worth leaving
everything else behind and going for something so differently. Well it
absolutely doesn’t mean that I am supporting to leave everything else and going
for worship for entire life, but it must be something really strong to make
people change, well God knows!
Anyway so after we went inside we saw the god shri
Krishna and radha and some other sculptures shimmering in the golden cloths and
jewelries. I have seen them in the magazines of iskcon but looking at them with eyes was just
astonishing. The entire hall was shimmering with twinkling lamps and golden interior.
The upper top of that hall was painted with beautiful paintings of hare
Krishna. We exited from the temple and tasted the free Prasad of rice and curry
there. And I remembered the quote from one of the magazine, that how the simple
Prasad from the temple makes pupils of krishna feel so satisfied with hunger.
So the first day ended with the iskcon visit, and
then we took our dinner and went to sleep.
The second day started with the industry visit,
where we had to go to the ITI office at bangluru. We visited there production
unit of ic’s, mechanical department of ITI, as well saw the different types of
telephones which evolved through the time. It was really sad to listen that now
as no one uses the telephones to contact, the ITI produces phones only for
defense or army only. But it is the fact that the old things has to fall back
with the evolving ones. But it’s still important to consider them also as it
all started from the scratch itself.
So after the industry visit we went to our hotel to
have our lunch and then after checking out we started our journey towards
mysore. It took us 4 hours to reach at vrundavan garden because of all the
traffic on the roads. It was all so dark when we reached there, and the lights
were looking beautiful there. We walked towards the fountain where the famous
laser show was going on, and somehow we were able to catch the final show. And it really was beautiful. And suddenly from
nowhere it started raining there. We were almost wet until we reached to the
bus. And then we danced all the way to the hotel in the bus :D
Well there was no place even to stand properly but
still we danced like freaks. :D
It was also the one of most memorable time I had in
the trip. Once we reached to hotel, again it was so beautiful hotel where we
stayed. We had our dinner and went to sleep.
And the last day we woke up at 5 to get to the
famous chamundeshwari temple of mysore. It was just dawn and we were going from
the hilly road towards the temple. The view of mysore above was just
breathtaking. When we reached at the temple we saw the so huge top of the
temple, shimmering with golden color. After 45 minutes of waiting in the line,
we went inside the temple. And the smell of all the dhoop and scented candles
made me feel really amazing. Its just like after a meditation we feel so calm
and soothing. We saw the goddess and
prayed for few minutes, then returned back to the hotel for checkout and breakfast.
After leaving hotel we went to the mysore palace, where also the swelling queue
welcomed us. But yet it was awesome experience to see all the kings and queens
paintings and accessories. All those roof tops and doors were carved in wood
with beautiful carvings. And the walls
were painted with the British style paintings. It seems so unreal that how much
our lifestyle has changed since then. It must have been pretty awesome to live
in a big home like that. It would take entire day to even go through all those
rooms :P
So after our lunch we again went for bangluru, as we
had a train to catch from bangluru back to pune. We enjoyed the final photo
session on the station and finally our
train arrived. We travelled again 20 hours to get back to pune, well it was
pretty exhaustive but still I have energy to write this blog so not much :P
The most memorable thing about this trip was that I
made few friends from other divisions of my college too. Well I am a little introvert and it takes a
little time for me to get used with someone, but I found a good friend on this
trip that was similarly like me. She became my buddy for my entire trip and we
enjoyed a lot. It was the most beneficial thing about this trip that I got to
know other people from my college, whom I never even met. I had fun during the
entire stay, and also a little break after a long time.
Now the busy schedule is ringing in the head with
all the submissions and the studies, but I know I will take control of it all
soon. So I got to see another metro city
of india, Bangluru- the garden city,
silicon valley of india , the clean city and as well for me the ultimate holiday station. I will absolutely like to revisit bangluru to
visit all the destinations there.
So now taking your leave people, will see you soon
with a new update. Wish me luck for my upcoming exams and also Happy Diwali… J
