Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Life through a digital eye

Bittu and the twins Tarun and Varun
We were still staying in Amirpet and when we would visit Gachi Bowli area it was covered with rocks. The children loved walking around in these rocks. Hyderabad of yore and of tofday is recognised by its rocky landscape. These huge boulders are millions of years old and are more ancient than Indian civilization. Geologists date these rocks to 2,500 million years back, amongst the oldest and hardest rocks in the world.Today I see this heritage of million years old being demolished by construction all around. Most of these rocks are cut into small stone slabs and sold as granite but just two decades back one could walk around these. When institues like EPTRI. Housing Colnoies, and the games village and the Gach Bowli stasdium came up many of these rocks were destroyed for ever. Only tode that were far away from civilization could survive. We gave our own names to many of threse rocks from the shapes that they appeared to us. Hence one was a laddu rock, another a samosa rock, another a gun rock, another a drum, a mushroom rock,a sleeping rock , a dosa rock and an idli rock and so on. A fovourite game of the children was to identify the shape of a rock and give it a name. The person who named the rocck fist felt he owned that rock.

Early days at Nagarjuna sagar
(Nepal 1998)
The handsome trio


Life at the end of year 1995

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