Thesaurus Revisited

 A Photo Essay

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is when you see a mother and child deep in the forest just when you have given up all hopes of sightings. 

Voyeurism is when you peep through the dense vegetation to see a bathing beauty in a stream. 

Jackpot is when your search for one rhino leads you into the midst of a crash...the herd. 

Royalty is living in a Swiss Tent House with a huge bath tub and amenities in the middle of a forest (Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary).

Misnomer is when you name a stork as Greater Adjutant, a designation given to this scavenger bird because of its stiff military gait, locally known as Hargila- one which   swallows (gila) bones (har). 

Irony is driving miles and miles to reach the world’s rainiest place to get sun burnt and find its famed Seven Sisters Falls trickling down the mountainside awaiting the rains to usher in. 

Adventure is to explore the treacherous and slippery mountainous caves like the dwarfs and hobbits in The Lord of the Rings. 

Tranquility is driving through valleys, watching waterfalls, stopping by to admire lakes and gardens.

Cultural Shock is when your search for local authentic Khasi food leads to you to peeling and devouring boiled potatoes with herbs and dried fish paste. 

Peace is when the bars on your mobile phone vanish one by one and the hostess in the hotel says that in this region only BSNL works. You’re incognito! 

Mawlynnong, a little village nestled in the hills of Cherrapunji, is a synonym for cleanliness…Welcome to Asia’s Cleanest Village. .for it is here that Cleanliness meets Godliness. 

Total surrender is when the stray puppy lifts its paws to greet a stranger walking in the streets and both find true friendship.

 

See-through is seeing through the waters the bed of the River Umngot at Dawki, nestled between East Khasi and Jaintia Hills….Lo and behold, across the river is Bangladesh!

Divinity is getting an unplanned darshan of Ma Kamakhya on our third visit to the city. 

Celebration is when friends of over thirty-five years come together…khoob jamega rang! 

Fitness is taking over ten thousand steps each day and yet feeling fresh and raring to do more.

Following the Megh...from Meghalaya to Mumbai...homeward bound.

DS & SS