On return from Thailand, first, I met my mother........
On return from Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, last week, after completing my Visiting Professorship (June-Sept 2013) which was so fruitful and most rewarding from mycological point of view, I did my first duty and, indeed, it was truly a heart-warming one.
I visited our native home at Darbhe, Irde village, Dakshnina Kannada - Karnataka State, and met my mother on Friday. It was a moment of great joy, happiness and emotional to be with her for a while.
When I visited our mother a couple of months back in August 2013, she was very sick and weak due to advanced age and fragile health. She couldn’t recognize me then. I prayed Bhagwaan Shree Ram for her good health and went back to Thailand to complete my assignment. Now I see my mother better and more cheerful; she is running 95. With conscious and alert mind, she enquired health and well-being of all of us....me, my wife and children....what else do we need..., this is called ‘maathruvaatsalya’! I returned to Goa yesterday with more energy and focused mind...; we have many more things to do and accomplish.....not only in mycology but also in other spheres!
On return from Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, last week, after completing my Visiting Professorship (June-Sept 2013) which was so fruitful and most rewarding from mycological point of view, I did my first duty and, indeed, it was truly a heart-warming one.
I visited our native home at Darbhe, Irde village, Dakshnina Kannada - Karnataka State, and met my mother on Friday. It was a moment of great joy, happiness and emotional to be with her for a while.
When I visited our mother a couple of months back in August 2013, she was very sick and weak due to advanced age and fragile health. She couldn’t recognize me then. I prayed Bhagwaan Shree Ram for her good health and went back to Thailand to complete my assignment. Now I see my mother better and more cheerful; she is running 95. With conscious and alert mind, she enquired health and well-being of all of us....me, my wife and children....what else do we need..., this is called ‘maathruvaatsalya’! I returned to Goa yesterday with more energy and focused mind...; we have many more things to do and accomplish.....not only in mycology but also in other spheres!
I lived at our native home Darbhe in the
foothills of Wesetrn Ghats, for a long time, in my younger age; ......nostalgic
memory goes back to 50 years ago; my early education and ‘samskaar’, i.e. learning
basic human values, were all from that soil, surroundings and environment.
On Saturday, 5th Oct 2013, early
morning, I stood at our home-courtyard; typical village environment. Monsoon
rain has just stopped; radiating bright sunlight piercing through vast canopy
of areca and coconut trees and touching the ground; ....with chirping birds,
colourful butterflies, hopping squirrels, basking dogs, milking cows, lively
but innocent people, this village is a miniature world on its own!
There is no great improvement
of basic amenities, in our village Irde, in all these years. Frankly, Irde is famous for 'bendru-theertha' or hot-water spring, a rare geological marvel! However, the only road - first built by the
villagers, by generous donation of private land without any government compensation,
but later acquired by the panchayat and
government- connecting the Darbhe-Kunhimule hamlet to the main-road leading to taluka
head-quarters Puttur, is in a very poor state. Surfaced by a thin layer of
poor quality asphalt and with innumerable pot-holes, this road is the life-line to this
settlement in this Karnataka-Kerala-border village. Two buses, one private
and a KSRTC-owned, commute the passengers who include numerous school-going
children and young and old village-folk, morning and evening on this horrendous
road. I too travelled by one of these buses to our home, last week! Who cares
for this corner of the State....?
I will write further, after a couple of
days.....; Good bye till then.
D. Jayarama Bhat
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