The Trip to the Capital
It was supposed to be a wats-more-important sorta presentation…Well…we also presented our paper. The trip was given an exciting touch when we first disembarked at Agra from the Tamil Nadu express. Had it been any other circumstance, we would have been easily mistaken for talibans (with only eyes exposed) with the cold weather. We were given a tour of the Agra fort by a guide, the history of Babar, Zahanhir , Shah jehan et cetera. Taj was magnificent. We wandered through its marble disposition for more than three hours.The conference ‘Map India 06’ held in Taj Palace, New Delhi was an eventful one. I never realized till then that there were these many companies in the field of geo-informatics and the delegates from various latitudes and longitudes were excellent. This is not to say that I was there in the various conference halls listening to their speech (I was hardly there for two). We pocketed all the magazines and literature kit we could lay our hands on. It is especially for this awareness that I would eulogize Map India.
The Indira Gandhi memorial reminded me of her life and the saying “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”
I wouldn’t boast the trip (named ‘thailai nagaril thalapathigal’ by my classmates) wasn’t a bit blemish. But those petty misunderstandings failed to dampen down our spirits. Getting into the wrong bus and going elsewhere, strolling around unknown places, those tense moments before the paper presentation (Lav was remarkably composed. She was our presenter… Great!! ), the serious but equally funny discussion with a couple of buddies at 3 am in our room, pulling each others’ leg, the night when myself and my friend were sitting on the steps of bus combating the cold and pushing the bus when it stopped at midnight, these can be included in the inexhaustible list of memories. I wish I had a pensieve like the one Dumbledore has in HP.
Thus wrote Suganya @ 11:54 AM
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