A brief visit to Vizag........

70^th Independence Day of India is fast approaching..... 

I and my wife planned a brief trip to Bengaluru, the capital city of Karnataka, and Visakhapatnam, the port-city of Andhra Pradesh.

We spent an interesting last two days in Visakhapatnam, also nicknamed as Vizag.... This port city is undoubtedly very lovely.... Historically, part of Kalinga Kingdom and later ruled by the Vijayanagara dynasty, Visakhapatnam was under the British rule until the impendence of India.  Presently, the principal commercial hub of Andhra Pradesh, the city of Visakhapatnam is stunningly beautiful both at day and night. The port of Visakhapatnam handles maximum amount of consignments coming to India by sea-route, I was told.

In Vizag, we primarily visited my nephew who has a leading prawn hatchery and further we spent some time with my mycology friend who is working on marine and mangrove fungi of east coast of India in a CSIR lab. Prawn or shrimps are invertebrate crustaceans and one of the most lovable, non-vegetarian sea-foods, reared all along the east coast of India. I and my wife saw, first-hand, how prawn is reared and cultivated.... Mycology, my pet subject, of course I like to discuss with whomever I meet....

In Vizag, we climbed the Kailasagiri hill, went around the port city and took a long ride on the beautiful and picturesque beach-road. Inhabited by conscious, young and old citizens and bathed by lovely weather, the city of Vizag is well-organized and very clean. During our visit, everything fell on line and we enjoyed the trip. We bought some interesting eatables and rare mementos. It was truly a refreshing trip.

D. Jayarama Bhat