Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

  “We dwell on this earth as branches of a tree, yet a support system in the form of a family remains the root of the tree.” This is the importance of the roots of strength to our individual vulnerable selves who withers like leaves and branches. Any nation which wants to be great, strong and taken seriously needs to have a strong family system prevalent in the society. The emphasis needs to be laid on the average person leading a good life with a strong support network and later build something out of it. If we look at the society in U.S., the emphasis is on building great output out of unconventional, eccentric practices of living. This tells we are once again looking at the means of the nation in achieving the staggering output. The emphasis is very much on ‘what’ we build rather than on ‘how’ we build. As I read somewhere, ‘You know how to build a business, if you know how to raise a family’.   While we don’t need worry about a marginal few wh...

It so happened that I mentioned last year as a tourism year, and it might be good for the same this year as well. Which means, the trip to U.S. might come across as an interesting tour serving the purpose of visiting new places. The last many months drive this point home. Am I solely on a cruise mode in a pleasure trip to a foreign country doing everything in the dreamy wish list? The answer is a big No. I will clear the air in a while with the review. But before that why did I mention the year as tourism year.   Let me go back few years to 2017 when I made a 5-and-a-half-month trip to U.S. I went above and beyond the ordinary self in a most daunting manner as far as I know in that stint. The crowd downplayed it all and called it a foreign tour in a leisure mode done without job or work. I was not able to take that view but the masked reality or the half-truth is what they deduced out of my expedition to bear with me. So, these rotations to U.S. at that tim...

I am continuing from where it is left in the last post – a write-up on the places visited after I came to U.S. in April’22. Even a few months before I came to U.S., I was visiting new places back in India as well which I may open up in another post. On the first day of the last year 2022, I was on a short trip visiting a temple and a big mythological museum on the outskirts of Hyderabad. The entire year was panned out in a similar way – an extension of what I did on New Year's Eve. This year as well, on the New Year's Eve of 2023, I was in a big city in U.S. visiting a major park with two museums in it. By the way things have panned out, we can certainly tell that 2022 is the year for tourism and 2023 is also great for visiting new places or can be called as tourism year. In both these years, I was present in the tourist capital of the world – U.S. which is an added bonus .   On that note, let us educate, entertain and revel through the many tourist locations which ...