abholi

after a long, i write about gargi, kiran and tasmai. to some endless travel, on endless stretches back and forth, day and night, i chose to write on abholi. 

Amer to fateh sagar, pichola to inner circle connaught place, terminals to terminal, via rani kamplapati, military station bhopal, daultabad, faiz ahmed faiz, faisal bhai, aurangabadi musafir to juna bazar. life lately performed average in psychology tests, poor to very poor in group series tasks at services selection board. more i remember is ages awaited meet, sunder nursery photographs, evenings in hashrey, cafe कला, janpath, you what a beauty.

before three hundred kilometres, we wait for a cup of tea, sugar rush. its already nineteen hundred hours, we stopped for morning breakfast at seven. we are at a hundred kilometres per hour now, life is at four x speed. at four x i entered abholi. kiran, civil engineering student of ninettees introduces me to his home, as i walk, it is already dark, tasmai with his cat tries sneaking in, the house is mud, brick combination, plastered with lime on a concrete base, zero waste sustainable home. gargi, once a fashion design student waits on the gate, life at this moment slowed down to two x. packages and movers is what i better call myself, seventeen kg luggage successfully parked right above living room. 

served with home cooked varan bhaath, bhaaji in dinner, late civil engineer cum photographer turned kiran and gargi in discussion over profession and passion, gargi expressed more about school, where kiran was acquaintance, college, where a fashion designer wasn’t aware of existence of a civil engineer of a side block, later for fifteen years, here all lives are operating at its normal pace of one x speed, disclaimer. after fifteen, possibly not months but years. position opening of a photographer for gargi’s products is a story of ba na batwo, little tasmai, his home learning strategy at abholi. 

i talked about delhi university, dead flowers, and more than seven states where i existed. BnB strategies, manipur and early that day corrupt shrestha residential school. abholi, a pair of birds who make their nest out of scrap, Ba no batwo, a gujarati origin of maa ka batwa, ga.bha_chitra instagram page featuring modern day rag pickers earning bread and butter out of all kind of trash, bnb listing says room in earthen home. 

before highways and terminals. toll points to security check-in to pending next swiggy order. 

the flight has arrived, aurangabad- indira gandhi international. 

(caps lock has been avoided and some grammar has been intentionally left casual)