CHERISH with HARISH

  12:01 pm, 25 th  July, 2021 Jorhat, Assam. It is a Sunday today and it has been a lovely day at the Olympics, for Indians till now. It seems like a day for Indian women. The day started with PV Sindhu winning her badminton match, Manika Batra came second and won her table tennins match and finally, MC Mary Kom won her boxing match. I still wait for the men’s Indian Hockey team match against Australia.   I have always grown up following the Olympics. It has been a phenomenon which has been tracing my life, every 4 years.  So amidst news of Covid hitting us, came the news of Tokyo Olympics, and with it came India’s strong representation in the games. I saw it online day before. I was still digesting the news for a couple of days. But yesterday, came the big happy headline:   ‘ Mirabai chanu wins a silver for India !’   Suddenly,   my happiness knew no limits. I read every news story about Mirabai and the happiness which followed. And then came the big ...

Surise at Jorhat, Assam: 4:30 am   10:05 a.m., Jorhat It was my first morning at Jorhat. In fact, it was still night, and the dawn was setting in. I just heard a lot of birds. This definitely woke me up. I got up, and went to the window to catch a glimpse of the beauty. Being an early morning person, I definitely loved it. It has been 18 days in this town and one of the newest things I noticed here was the SUN! I could see the daylight seeping in and I was loving the moment. It is then, that I checked my cellphone, for the time. It was 4:45 a.m.! I could not believe it then. I had always heard stories from my childhood that in the East, the sun rises early. But I never knew that it would be so early. Obviously, in the evenings, the sun set early too. The Jorhat sunset time: 6:30 pm As a result, I have started having an early dinner and hence, I sleep at 10 p.m. This is suddenly pushed me back to the childhood lessons, which said: "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, ...

Traveling has been in my genes since my birth. With my father being in the Army, and my mother always interested in exploring new places, I had to get that quality from my parents in  virasat .  But I also realised that more I travel, more I learnt, so I just traveled!   I spent a major part of my life in train journeys across India. This made me an avid traveler, and in the process, a writer. I have always treasured every journey I have taken.  So when I take an India count of all the villages, cities and states I had traveled, I realized that I had covered and stayed in the whole country, except this beautiful region of north east India.   Very recently, I have shifted to the beautiful state of Assam. Jorhat was the new base and this would be my base for long. The reason was pretty simple: I got a job here, and I accepted it with my arms stretched in happiness. Science says that the color green is good for eyes and in the process, our health. I have grown up i...