Bhaji on the beach

At Miramar I finally met Vivek Shah the famous Gujju at the hostel. I met a few other IIT undergrads, his friends. At about 7.30 pm we decided to take walk on the beach. Then we saw a few Pav Bhaji stalls and promptly decided to have some Bhaji on the beach. It was cool. By 9.15 we decided to go back to the hostel.

Then we decided to check out the Miramar beach. There is this wonderful and quiet place just near the hostel on the beach that Vivek had discovered. At night the place looks hauntingly beautiful. You can sit here all night long and meditate. The waves come and kiss your feet. A lighthouse lights up the place every few minutes. It is silent and all you can hear is the sea quietly strumming some imaginary guitar. On the dark brooding horizon a few ships floated on to some heavenly destination.

It is in moments like these that you feel melancholy and euphoric at the same time. We sat there on the wet sand and as the white fizzling froth inched towards me I sat there and contemplated on the mistakes of the past and decided to come back to life!

Somehow Pink Floyd always has answers to everything and always come to your mind in moments of great joy or sorrow or just about anytime when you experience deep emotions.

I took a heavenly ride through our silence

I knew the moment had arrived

For killing the past and coming back to life

As the moonlight comes in from far away, various cruise boats with decks dazzling with brilliant, bright, gaudy lights crammed with people laughing, dancing and letting go, glide a few meters away from you. You can see and hear their joy and yet in some strange inexplicable way not share it. At about 10.00 pm the hostel doors close, so we scramble into the hostel and call it a day.