घरमा बसेर काम गर्न सकिंदैन मन लाग्दैन भनेर बिहानैको ठण्डीमा अफिस आएको म। तर अफिसमा पनि अल्छी लागिरहेछ! िबहान घरबाट निस्कँदा हिउँ पर्न थालेको थियो तर खासै परेन। चिसो हावा भने चलिनै रहेको थियो, र अझै पनि चलिरहेछ। अहिले भने अफिसको न्यानोले होला मलाई अल्छी बनाएको। अनि धेरै दिनपछि आज ब्लगमा केही लेख्ने सुर चलिरहेछ। के लेखूँ भनेर त्यति सोच्नु परेको पनि छैन खासमा - घेरै दिनदेखि मलाई मेरो विद्यालयको एक शिक्षकले करीब १२ वर्षजति अगाडि भनेको लघुकथा याद आइरहेछ। त्यसैलाई यहाँ उतारौं जस्तो लाग्यो अनि सुरु गरेको यो ब्लग पोष्ट! कथा यसप्रकार छ।
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Published 1 year, 10 months ago
in travels.
Warning: This post is over long, please continue only if you have lots and lots of time to spare, and a cup (or two) of coffee with you! It might make you feel sleepy too!
Connaught Place in Delhi…not a difficult place to go around (for its round!) but quite tough to find the places you want to find, especially when you are a visitor and have been there only once before. We took the wrong turn at first instance and just could not find the “Delhi Darshan” counter that we were after - to purchase tickets for the one-day city tour of Delhi. Asked a few “locals” and were pointed to certain directions, or “behind” certain buildings but to no avail. Finally we arrive in front of a tiny counter, the signboard reading “Delhi city tour, Agra and Jaipur tour”, etc. Ask the person standing outside about “Delhi Darshan” and he responds we arrived at the right place. This was the “Delhi Darshan” counter (which we later found out wasn’t really, but apparently they are all the same, difference only in their names!). Anyway, we were told the city-tour bus left just minutes ago, but he could call it back to pick us up if we want to go. We were charged 175 rupees each - 350 for two of us (50 rupees more per ticket than what someone we knew had paid the day before as we later found out - we didn’t bargain on the price that was written clearly on the price information…we should have!!) and we wait outside for the bus that has just been hailed back minutes after it started the city tour!
The bus arrives…it is coloured all white with “Sahara” written on the side and at the back in black letters. There is no sign to say its the “Delhi Darshan” city-tour - of course it wasn’t and we were just duped into thinking it was, and made to pay for it. We were not even fully inside the bus, it starts moving and we had to make our way to the back to find the only empty seats amid the bus’s twists, turns and sudden brakes in the Delhi traffic. We look around to see fellow “tourists”, all of whom were Indians except one poor guy with a Mongolian face, who turned out to be a Canadian (although rest of the Indians thought/believed he was a Chinese all the way)!
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Currently I am reading this book - Secret Tibet by Fosco Maraini. The book was originally published in 1951, and I am reading the revised 1998 edition, translated from Italian by Eric Mosbacher and Guido Waldman. I must say the translation is pretty good, for it does not feel I am reading a translated book when I read this one, which often spoils the pleasure with so many of the translated works. Anyway, I was thinking of writing about it once I finished the book but for the following passages. After I read these I couldn’t help but share it with my readers, most of whom I suspect are Nepalese! In the following paragraphs, the author describes the inhabitant of the then Kingdom of Sikkim, who I suppose still constitute the inhabitants of Sikkim today, but the Kingdom is no more. I just liked the way the author describes/contrasts three different groups inhabiting Sikkim at that time - the Lepchas, the Tibetans and the Nepalese.
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