Tag: #Thrissur
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Return to the Homeland – India Diaries – Part1
The smells that once excited me had no effect; now that I knew this was where I was going to be staying, for sometime at-least. “Ma, we’re home. That peculiar smell…a concoction of burning firewood, soil after the rains…is so Kerala,” my younger one quipped. She was so excited as I was used to being…
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Blessed! Rising to a New Dawn (In the countryside)
A steady, soothing zephyr… lulls the quiet night, In our blankets we lay huddled; eyes shut tight, Breaks the still silence, the sound of the temple gong, One, Two, Three…Awaken the Gods; before daybreak comes along… Stir the crows and the mynas; the woodpeckers in the trees, The hum of the cicadas, the crickets, the…