JAI HIND!! I TRIED THE COLOURS

The picture below is not our national flag. It's just my trying to work with the colours of our flag today. I did this using the Mircrosoft Paint Brush package. I tried the saffron, the white, the green and the blue colours, one by one and then thought deeply whether I had something special for any one colour, just one colour that the entire flag should have.

I strongly felt that all these colours have to be together on our flag and it shouldn't be just one colour. We should strive to keep the colours and our nation together and thus protect our nation from the evil forces emerging from within ourselves.

I think the fervour of the parade and our anthem and the national flag was intense when I was young. But as I grew old and the bizarre happenings around me eat into my partriotic faith, I found it a challenge to see the flag with the same fervour. When I was a child, I was taught the principles of our great forefathers like Gandhi. I was never taught about dealing with the forces who disturb the unity of our country. I could appreciate the colours in the flag then and about those colours being together. I was taught peace, but now as a matured adult, I see everything other than peace around me. We should teach our children to deal with these forces and not to lose faith. We should teach them to protect our country always.

THE BAT CAVE IN LANGKAWI - A RISKY VISIT IN 2018

With the pandemic that we are into now, I am not sure whether anyone will venture inside this bat cave again. I had been there just after the NIPAH virus outbreak in Thailand in 2018. Will I venture into that place again? Never. Bats have become such lovable creatures world over :)

My wife was very livid with me when I ventured into the cave very much against her wish. She, my sister and my daughter stayed out while I went inside along with the other visitors. Looking back, it was a big risk that I had taken that time.

Cameras were not permitted inside and we never not even allowed to flash our mobile phone lights as it could disturb a huge swarm of bats hanging above us on the roof of the cave. But some of the visitors still flashed the lights and that way I got to see the huge swarm of bats above me. I don't have any photographs of these bats but those images what I saw, still flash through my mind. I felt creepy later when my wife told me that anything that dropped off the bats' bodies could land directly on the visitors below.

Please use this link to google the images taken by other visitors. Some of them have violated the rules and captured the images of bats in the dark.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bat+cave+langkawi&sxsrf=ALeKk00eNkuJoF6-NiSbATu7gQd4cKSeyg:1596908926478&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGkbSqlYzrAhXoxzgGHfzlCKwQ_AUoAXoECBoQAw&biw=1536&bih=722

THE LANGKAWI SKY BRIDGE, MALAYSIA - A BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF NATURE

This was a unique and great experience, going up and down the rope way in Langkawi Island in Malaysia.  A beautiful piece that has emanated out of a lot of effort. I loved the view of the mountains and the sea from the top. What a view!!!

I think I liked everything in this setup except the bridge itself. I thought it should have had a nice natural canopy covering, instead of a metal structure left exposed in the sun.

We had the opportunity to walk down from the top of the mountains through the thick forest's greenery and reach the white bird like shelter you see in the snap. We took the return up by a guided lift vehicle, as we were all zapped off energy to walk all the way up.

A place like this takes us very close to nature. Often, the stillness of nature gives us an opportunity to connect with our inner self in a much better way, as we soak in tranquility in those moments.

This white winged shelter, almost looks like a white bird taking off in the green mountain backdrop.