A Early Morning Walk With a Radio

My Shining Beauty,

   It was 5.30 in the morning and I was out for a walk at last. It is one of my desires to get up early and have an early morning walk even from my childhood. I asked Naveen to join me. But he was lazy just as me always. I left room alone but I had a partner in my pocket, it was my mobile radio. I crossed 3 roads watching faces of people who were busy with there work, running, jogging, run-walking, waiting for busses in bus-stand. No shops were open and roads were almost empty.

      Dogs were playing and searching for something in a bin. Someone was washing car. Two girls were (playing) fighting and one girl fell into the drainage beside the road. An army man was having walk with his ‘Tiger Dog’. The watchman of ATM was in his deep sleep. Some hotels were half opened and my journey had all these things in my way. Some Hindi old songs were playing in my ears.

       I started tuning Radio and stopped at once as I heard ‘Vivid Bharathi’. It was just getting up from bed. In another five min there started Hindi news and I suddenly fell into my childhood days where Radio was the only entertainer. As I remember now my day was starting with radio in my schooldays. Some agriculture news, Raghupathi raghava rajaram, Sanskrit news starting with “ye samskrutha vaarthaha shuyantam pravachadi Paradivananda saagara”. Then Gandhian thoughts, Pradesh Samachar at 7.05, bhaava geet, Kannada news, old Kannada songs. At 8 am it was Hindi news and English at 8.15.

        I was having homework done, a short study, bath, getting ready to school everything was going on with radio. Even today I don’t know what the program was after 8.30. The school was starting at 8.40. I was to hear English news on the way to school. The whole street was hearing radio so had to here English news in Arsikere. ‘Bade chalo tum’, ‘Vande Mataram’, ‘mele sur mera thumara ye sur bane hamara’, ‘ab honge kamiyab’, ‘jaane koi muje janglee kahe’, Jeena yaha marna yaha’ were my favorite tracks and it was too repetitive.

        Even today I don’t understand Hindi properly by lack of practice. But music and Radio made me to understand quietly. Thanks to All India Radio for this. It reaches the interior villages and gives introduction of other languages like Hindi and English were regional languages dominate more.

         I was in my childhood nearly for 20 min and reached J P Park from Mathikere- BEL- Mutyalanagar. Lights were getting off when I entered the park. I had cool feelings of morning wind. People running around were from all different age group. A schoolboy was singing a song loudly, a old telugu couples were having chat with there grand son in mobile and people were too busy in walking and jogging. I think they have made a morning jog/walk just as there daily job. They walk speedy to minimize time. What to do ‘May doctor had said them to walk for 3-4 kms in early morning’. The good thing is that I saw none having Speedo-meter in there hands.

        I removed my shoes and started walking in ‘Navagraha Vana’. It’s quite special because the walking path is made by small sharp stones so we can have good exercise for toe and for mind too.

        Sun woke up suddenly and turned whole sky into orange. Clouds created an ‘Imaginary Heaven’ and it was. Photography is one of my hobby but ‘the hell sake I forgot to bring my Cam now’. I scolded myself and it was disappointment. I had a round of whole big park and came out of park with a hard breath. Almost every shop was open and I had my coffee in some hotel there. I saw ‘Kushwanth Singh @ 95’ in ‘The Week’. How can I leave him alone like that? He was in my hands in a next minute and I welcomed him to my room.

                                                              Bye, Take care

                                                              Have a nice day