Rains have come early in India and
have covered full country. Tuesday saw flash floods in Utrakhand. For the first
time in 88 years, these flash floods were witnessed. on TV. They were showing big
buildings being swept away in rushing currents, water gushing through narrow spaces. Thousands of Yatri’s to
Char-Dham are stranded all over Himalyas. In Hrishekesh, Parmarth Dham, where
Madon had undertaken his mothers program was submerged in water and was shown
repeatedly on TV. ‘Char Dhams’ have being closed for three year at least!
Green brigade is now saying, ‘We told you.’
Akshay visited Nashik for Seiko
along with National Head Sobuj. There he came across a Sindhi boy who is MD of
a major distribution house. Whose daily turnover was in crores. He had prime, high value brands distribution
of Mumbai – Maharashtra – Gujrat – Rajisthan etc. What impressed Akshay the
most was that most of the times he is free, just attends phones. He has CEO’s,
CEE etc working for him. In Nashik we know Anil Khatpal (Anju’s Husband), who
is 34 year old, and coincidentally this guy with whom Akshay meet is also 34
years old, lives in Nashik and his name is Anil K and is a Sindhi!
Akshay started for Goa on Wednesday
at 4.0 clock in evening via Goa Express, he reached Madgaon, in morning,
checked in a Hotel, visited market for short period. He got sick, fever and head ach, so off he went to sleep.
Then he returned to Pune in evening by hired innova and reached home at 3.00 am. A round trip
to Goa, not productive, but it had some meaning to it. What? This is third time
in last 7 years that Akshay was in Goa when Share market tanked in Big Big way.
On Thursday, when Akshay was just trying to avoid getting sick, market fell by
500 points nifty! Shardul K called him and said, ‘Do not tell me, you are in
Goa today also!’
It is nice to see kids getting
excited and planning for the picnic as I would do in decades gone by. Rinky sat
down with paper and pencil to make list of games, food list, accessories etc to
take to Adventure Plus.
Sat-Sun. We had an excellent get-
together, picnic cum adventure outing with sprinkling of nature walk in most pristine
valley of Bhor near Pune. Adventure Plus is place at foothills of Mahableshwar,
surrounded by a river, with plenty of adventure sports. The rooms are made like
tents with bare minimum facilities. To my pleasant surprise, younger generation
was cool with this setting, whereas few ladies complained for lack of
facilities. Thankfully rains just teased us, sprinkled some drops frequently,
but stayed away so that we can enjoy
all the thrills. It was Mummy with her family along with her one brother, plus
other brother’s children. In all we were 34 people who stayed over- night and 7
people who left late in evening. This is the picnic which all of us will
remember for long time, will discuss various angles, issues, happening for next
few months. Today, we are all savoring after-glow of the satisfied experience. I have to collect footage from 4 cameras, 2
ipads. I will ignore the Mobile camera collection. We must have clicked pics in
1000’s. And yes, I will be posting links for pictures, videos etc.
Once again I must thank God for such a great experience.
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