First of all, a huge thank you for all those comments on the Indore dsn, and kudos to all whose sankalpa made it happen 🙂
The past week was a series of Sumeru Sandhya concerts in Haryana, driving through Sonepat, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Karnal. Its wonderful to see an utterly prosperous rural belt for a change, of course with unbelievable amounts of yummy food to accompany the robust, warm Jat hospitality! Gohana is famous for its 6-inch diameter jalebis, and Bhiwani for malpudas; and everywhere, fistfuls of homemade butter lumped onto aloo parathas! Really missed my camera on this trip though – so many perfect frames are snapped into my consciousness; vast blue skies with intensely white cloud formations stretched over an endless vista of waterlogged fields ripe for sowing paddy; buffaloes lolling in herds in large, tranquil ponds; ibis, blue jays and other birds sighted quite casually 🙂
Many of you may not have heard that the Haryanvis are also known for their unique brand of wry, straight-faced humour — it has a really unique flavour, quite distinct from the southie-bong-sardar variety 🙂
Got back to Bbay this morning and am now driving to Lonavala for a satsang, with the sun behind me, cloud-covered mountains in the distance before me, and waterfalls pouring forth from the lush green hills on either side. Batata wadas, chikki and walnut fudge coming up in a few minutes!
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“6-inch diameter jalebis,malpudas; and everywhere, fistfuls of homemade butter lumped onto aloo parathas!”
…yuuuuummmmmmmm …
indian food totally rocks bhai(but do watch ur paunch ;).. )
Vikram Da very sorry for not being able to comment on your postings from from past few weeks… got a bit busy with my onboarding in the IBM and then started office…I am going to banglore tommorow and hopefully go to ASHRAM on saturdays and sundays… hope to see ya there… Want to talk to you regarding lot many things….
Jai Gurudev!!!
Angshuman Debraj
Vikram-da, I was once asked in my office: What will you do after you become a teacher, apart from teaching mediation?
I will direct them to this blog.
It is pity that people do not realize, what it is to lie the lap of divine!!!
Jai gurudeva
Wah.. best discripton of nature!!! 🙂
Jai Gurudev !
Love,
Aparna
Wow wow wow! There is a Tsunami of saliva in my mouth right now! :-))
And my dear guitar-god, I want to be onstage with you soon! Amen!
Love,
Krish
JGD..
Trully Awesome!!
Nature’s discription is really very nice..
I want batata wadas toooooo!!!
and some nice chikki…
are you coming to bangalore? or am i coming first to mumbai?
btw, check out my monday morning post… it turned out to be really nice 10:30 am tomorrow 🙂
Jai Gurudeva!
love
bawa
u really enjoyed jalebi’s n aloo parathas??? u r an enigma to me …:)and yet so simple ….and a perfect human being i ve ever met.jgd
sunil
wow bhaiya…
hd a yummmm time with good people n great food… i love batata wadas…
all of it sounds so interesting …
so u rechd mumbai … okkk..
miss u bhaiya
jai gurudev
Isha
hey vikram bhaiya,
i am CHAMPU from surat ,(DIPESH RAJA ‘s friend),how r u ?? its really fun reading your blog . while reading for a moment i thought i was with you eating 6 inch jalebis and malpudas.
thank you for this blog ,actually this is really cool ,i mean we can talk to you and get to know more about you.
waiting to meet u in surat during “jamnashthmi “
bye bye jai gurudev
champu
surat
JGD…. in a nut shell it was undoubtedly the best description spanning from the north to the west of India in such a short paragraph and encompassing the best of food and humor one can digest….. missing batata wada’s and methi chi wadi….