Stonetastic Village of the Gods - Avani, Karnataka
Very scenic drive [although if one mentions "like Tioga Pass", the TOI comment section might get terribly angry].
Pack your sandwich/pakodas/water, and if possible please do-not carry any plastic.
Soja Kothai Prem Kore Jao
Those days we used to call Thriving-Bengal Days, or more accurately at the tangential top of the inverted-smiley-face curve, if I may call, just before started everything declining. Planned-City-Chittaranjan to Barakar to Asansol, Planned-City-Burnpur to Ranigang to Planned-City-Durgapur - everywhere thriving. Our village is situated about 7kms from Chittaranjan and on /Viswakarma/ puja day we will visit Chittaranjan Locomotive Factory or Hindusthan Cables Factory, because on that day factories used to open for public. Each of the department would perform their own Puja (Kudo's to those dedicated Surveyors, they knew simple ways to compete, and to inspire) and distribute Prasad to all the visitors. And our enjoyment was to see those biiiig machines, huge belts, super-size fans, mystic Sirens - "Ei dyekh dyekh ei tau baaje-rea, Baba rea oto dhur thyei-ke shyun-te pai". While walking back we would steal some "Roma Suti" from the fields and enjoy the hap
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