CHERISH with HARISH

  Hyderabad,  9:30 pm. Dear D-bhai, I have been thinking about new things entering my life, or may be not entering my life at all. I am placed in this new 'space' which we all know as a 'CITY'. The city is that new to me, that I am jumping into myself to find answers. Though Corona has made me lose some of my close elders and we have changed cities and our base. But then, in the whole process, I realise, that I am gaining this new  learning about silence. I am finding one new friend here, but then again, at the end of the day, I am getting back to that space, with myself. I am really enjoying this special space! Every night, when I lie down to think about the whole day, I realise how fortunate I was doing these little things! What are they? These little things have been gardening, enjoying my sunrise views, respecting food, doing Yoga, talking to weird things like the sun, the wind and the beautiful sky! I am writing and enjoying my space of being lost! But then, I real...

  "I dive in,    I realise,    I can swim    Wow, absolutely wow!"

9:27 pm, Hyderabad. The whole day, I was trapped in this amazing choice of clouds or no clouds, with a cool breeze!  I am not one of those people who get depressed with clouds around. Having grown up in cities with major sun falling on my face, I am loving this bit of the Hyderabad monsoon, which surprisingly and happily, is not ending! I write a lot in two situations: Firstly, while travelling in a train. Secondly, when it is raining continuously outside for hours. So, this year, I have shifted to a city which is giving me this lovely breeze to be happy with. I am also spending some time with my long time furry friend, TUFFY. He is a lovely pet dog, who stays at my new neighbour, my uncle.  So I am enjoying hours sitting with him, without a word. This silence is actually gold. I am realising that we don't need words to express. We have our bodies to do that. With Tuffy, I am learning this art to talk less! This is in many ways, is pushing me into the likes of the Buddhist med...

My new youtube channel 'Travelling with Harish' episode, 'GRACIOUS GODDESS', which talks about the whole concept of Navratra celebrations, across this lovely mix of traditions, called 'INDIA'. Hope u like it :)

 8:30 pm, Hyderabad This city has been experiencing massive rainfall. For my international readers, I must inform that 'Hyderabad Flood' is a hot event now. I wanted to stay more in Kazipet, but I had to get back to my work. I actually had to get back to my universe. I crossed all the pleasant clouds, and to my happiness, the sun was out.  All masked up, following all corona preventive measures, we drove for Hyderabad. I realised that the government corona app, also showed me good signs in the rural areas. I had started travelling towards the state's capital. I have always liked travelling more  in the rural areas, but I have always loved coming back to my 'UNIVERSE'.  Now, how do you describe this universe. This universe is a mental zone, which has my own area, my own music, and most importanly my own bed to sleep. This time, this universe of mine was in Hyderabad. I had all of my work lined up in my mind. I was still figuring it out, and I was passing all rocky hi...

 9:25 pm, Kazipet. HAPPY AUNT We had come to this town, primarily to help my aunt undergo her surgery. It was my mother's sister. I was just excited about this exploration of this new town.  First things first, my aunt's surgery was successful and yesterday, she came back home, happily. As she returned to her peaceful bed, back home, my instincts of roaming around Kazipet were getting restless.  I have already described it my in yesterday's blogpost, of how I was all set to watch this town. But the rain played spoilsport, and dejected me. But what came in as a huge surprise was the lovely BIRYANI, an Indian dish cooked by my 'Masterchef' brother-in-law. Rain continued till late night yesterday. But I had slept with a hope and a big prayer of watching a clear sky and obviously, NO RAIN! CLEAR SKIES I woke up in the morning, rubbing my eyes, I walked out of my room. I saw this sight and my happiness knew no bounds. I saw the tulsi plant standing upright with no rain i...

Day 16th Oct'20, 8:30 pm, Kazipet After spending 5 days in this beautiful town, I told my local relative, my brother-in-law to take me around the town's natural places, which he thought could be tourism centres.  I told him, not to take me to malls or buildings, but to places, which he had described to me with so much of interest, last night. This included a natural spring of water, which had huge fish. It had lovely, green fields, and such beautiful things. I was excited.  As a result, this little town of Telengana, I was pretty excited to go around, watching it. I had taken an early bath, had a quick breakfast, and was all set to go out. And then arrived the spoilsport...the rain! It came in and  started killing my day's plans of watching the localities!  I was trapped in my room the whole day. I did not want to waste the energy. I started browsing about the town and then, I started clicking pictures from my room, of what was visible to me. I was bored! I started r...

 12:50 pm, Kazipet I am loving this non-stop rain, I am loving the Non-stop- travel... I have not been staying at one place for the last one year or more. Currently, my journey started in Delhi. I reached Hyderabad, and spent a lovely week there. Not preferring a hotel vacation, I lived in my nice room, on the terrace From there, we got a news of my aunt's surgery in this town of Kazipet. So, I packed my backpack to this lovely town of Kazipet. My parents were with me in all this travel, which is amazing always. After two days of reaching this brilliantly simple town, I shot my weekly episode of TRAVELLING WITH HARISH, my youtube channel. I have started enjoying and writing in these non-stop rains. The rains have always pushed me into self-introspection and hence, my stupid work! In these green confusions of Corona and Telengana, I have been experiencing some amazing greenery, and hence, this writing! I sit in this little room in Kazipet, with lot of rain outside, which is pushing ...

 Till very recently, I did not know that the Harappa culture, did not have 'temple' buildings during their time. They did believe in the concept, but it was very personal. They believed in the sun God, the trees, the nature, the skies and similar things. It was quite later, that the temple buildings were built. More about this, I spoke in my latest episode on my youtube channel, Travelling with Harish. The episode is called, 'LESSONS FROM HARAPPAN SIMPLICITY. Do watch and if you like it, please share. Also, if you want to listen about any topic, write it in the comments. I will do my research and present an episode for you guys. :)