PART 5: Tsomgo: A Sense of Perspective

[sonataindica]

June 5
Written at The Marigold, Gangtok

5:10 AMThere she is: Kanchendzhonga, her golden summit uncrowned and still obscured by clouds, towering above her neighbours, making them look like puny hills. She weaves her own spellbinding magic, a magic so powerful that it makes me immobile and rooted where I stand. I insult her by gazing at her through

Comments

[wtmewry]

Well at least someone had a whale of a time. :( And the damn 'dhoom machale' song seems to be everywhere! It's becoming a bloody anthem.

Btw, didja go up Kanchendzhonga? (Kanchenjunga?)

She's extraordinarily beautiful early in the morning when the sun rises.

[sonataindica]

Well, unless you're a climber, one doesn't normally go 'up' the Kanchendzhonga just like that. The first paragraph was exactly about her in the morning.

[silverreflects]

You should have loudly voiced your aitraaz towards playing Aitraaz! Was the tape owned by the Bihari? Sanity must have taken leave of anybody who buys an Aitraaz cassette. 'Ooh Aah, Let me Touch you Baby'. Ho ho ho. The Bihari was probably trying to pass 'subtle hints' to his wife.

Damn Dhoom! As TD said, the reverberations of the song have this tendency to stay with you long after the source has stopped bellowing it.

Snow!!!! Sigh!!!!

Nepali music sounds pretty good. Shaili used to play it regularly.

[sonataindica]

He owned it alright. Yes, I remember listening to some Nepali stuff shared on Shaili's comp. Very 'hummable', in the words of Kandu movie reviewers.

[safarial]

I havent seen snow. i want to see snow. is there snow in october in Gangtok? or Shillong?

[sonataindica]

Shillong doesn't have the altitude for snow in any season, unless some villain builds a weather-dominator or some such device. Gangtok should see snow in the winter.