Alampur and its stories

...so the people asked for rains and god gave floods . Yes he gave what you asked and i need not write again what he took . It could be that i have seen news reels too much from yesterday but the fact that Alampur is completely immersed made me a bit sad . There was some magic in the name of the place and some times when you hear the description of the place , you just know you have been there before and the mind visualizes some scenes as permitted by its artistic cells . But this place has some back ground and a-many-visualizations in the mind . Mainly because nanna lived there and he wove beautiful stories around that place . He had a knack of telling things when it came to places and mostly the places he liked . So this is the place he learnt to swim and man how the stories wove with the place .

Obviously the kids were energetic those days compared to now and my grand mother was a tired lady with a bunch of kids around her . My peddananna , my father , the little brother and my atta in between and added to these energetic guys was my fathers mama , that is my grand mothers little brother who came late into the family and was sent to his akkas place for summer vacation . So these bunch of guys had just one mission in life to jump from the rocks edging the river and have a boisterous splash. It just sat on the nerves of my grandmother to watch the kids movements the whole day and she devised an idea. And a simple one . Just teach them swimming first before they headed for a disaster. So a town full of swimmers taught these guys the simple technique of the season then , to tie the bamboo sticks around their waist and throw them into water . So through the summer vacation the guys had just one job , jump and swim through the mornings and play near the temples in the evening . So the mention of Alampur temples was quite frequent then and now that it is submerged maybe, it is its way of missing the 'summer gang' of that time . I hope to visit the place some time .

And here are the links of the curious image of Alampur.


Coming back to this world , though its chilly we could see the sun in the mornings and had to ultimately bring the heater home yesterday . The flat is getting too cold now .