ride, chores and music

the day started with a 70km ride in the outskirts of Hyderabad...we've been to this route earlier...today we were just two riders so we could ride at a steady but fast pace...today, it was all roads and breaks were very few - just the way it was intended to be...there were tow long breaks though - one for tea and bread-omlette at a roadside shop and the other one was at the railway crossing, waiting for a goods trail to pass by...

there was some repair work pending at home for a long time and it got done today...an unimaginable amount of follow-up and pestering was required to get the apartment maintenance guys moving...but in the end, glad that it got done, which was followed by a marathon cleaning operation...

I came across a couple of people today who have been staying hundreds and thousands of miles away from there home for the sole purpose of earning a livelihood for themselves and their families back home...these jobs are mostly of watchmen, servants, cooks or helpers in shops and roadside eateries, which I don't think fetches them a lot of money anyway...it is interesting and surprising the distance that people travel away from their family in search of the daily bread...and if one has to look closely it is not that the job that they are doing here they wont be able to find closer to home...I tried talking to one of them and didn't really get a clear answer behind this migration...there are few things that are probably beyond our understanding...

the day ended on a high note...there was this fusion music concert in the city organized by an alumni association of one of the leading engineering schools of Kolkata...the concert was just great...generally such concerts start on a low note and gain tempo with time...this one, started with a big bang and after reaching its peak towards the end, ended with some slow and mesmerizing music...each member of the band was a master of his own art - be it the the young lad playing with the beats at the drumset or the renowned Grammy award winner Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt...a rather enjoyable performance.