Um... I am not a bad photographer. My pictures assured me that I am a going to be a good photographer. When I have shown my photographs of Lake Tahoe to my daughter she told me that really no photographer is good enough to show it ugly. What she told is two hundred percent right. Such is it's beauty. It is praised by Mark Twine as the jewel of the lakes. As blue as the turquoise, as clear as the crystal,as pure as nector, the lake is surrounded by sierra mountains and pine trees and breathtaking beautiful to the superlatives.The scientific reason behind it's gorgeous colour doesn't bother me much , but it almost appears as though a great painter has spilled his blue colour on the canvas inadverdently.The golden streaks beneath it's transperent waves reflect like jewels hidden in it's heart.The pines around it whistle with the wind like a philharmonic orchestra.
Top of it how beautiful the experience of watching Shakespear nights on the banks of this lake should be ! Any play other than "Measure for Measure" would have been very interesting for me. But after the show I was convinced that for a master craftsman like Shakespeare no theme is difficult to make it interesting. Hardly any thing can really escape the brilliant portrayal by the genius. Half Chinese protagonist made me feel uncomfortable as the appearance is inconsistent with the role . Yet the play was enacted with precision and perfection. No mistakes can ever occur in a well documented, rehearsed and planned stage play. Every things is in it's place and worked too. Theatres are not new to India. Perhaps our theatres are one of most ancient in the world. In most parts of Andra Prades musical theatres are very popular till first half of the twentieth century and I remember my father quoting and singing few "Padyams" of Pandava Vudyoga Vijayalu . I was told that "Padyam" is unique for Telugu theatre and no other language has this feature.( Hello! Any body up there to save them ?) We Indians have produced few of the world class artists. With the advent of cinema our theatres were thrown to dogs and badly need rehabilitation. I am happy still they being played in these places and being sold for good price, though my experiment with "Menopause musical" was not too great.Youthfulness, attractiveness, and sex appeal are too precious to loose in western society but house wives with a flab and gray hairs can lead a happy familial life in oriental countries with their husbands trapped in marriages with no exits.
It is amazing to see so many water bodies throughout United Stated , most of them preserved and well maintained. We come across many huge lakes on our way and some of them virtually look like a sea. Many are used as good water sporting avenues. I feel privileged to travel along the coasts of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. I remember mugging up their names as the biggest river in the world ( Now with the changed statistics Amazon occupies the place) Fortunately it is not one of the the endangered rivers in their country. Heartrendingly our great lakes and reserve forests get shrunk by hundreds of acres every five years. They are often traded for votes and we can afford to loose our major rivers by sheer callousness.
Despite of our long coastal line most of us are alien to water sporting. For many of us swimming is fisherman's business. Lot number of us are scared of water. Our beaches are ill maintained and our love for sea is restricted to wetting our feet . For many of the Westerners who confine them selves in four walls during their severe winters, onset of summer is a boon. A small fishing pond is good enough to lure them to strip. The very fundamental of their adventurism is offshoot of their love for water. Not many of them are ignorant of swimming, a great human skill which we fail to acquire due to lack of proper facilities.
In spite of living on a riverside I was never encouraged to learn swimming. One reason being a girl, other being risk of death in a spate. On the day of reopening of my school I unmistakably noticed one missing head in my class. A moment later I was told that my little friend Radha Krishna was swept away in the fresh waters of the river never to return back . Not many parents were willing to send their children for swimming. That is how many of us remain alien for swimming. In modern times, with too many pools offering swimming coaching, many children end up with unfinished training and ear infections. Too many politics are involved with coaches and and their extra buck . Pools are crowded and breeding grounds for skin infections due lack of maintenance. Where do you produce world class swimmers?
My boating experience in lake of Ozark near St. Louis ended with confusion and chaos as we found very difficult to figure out our destination in a huge lake. An understanding came to me why our sailors ever carried their compass, as there are no land marks in water. Our pressing need to reach the shore within the stipulated time with a haunting threat that our every extra minute will be charged with five dollars was excruciating and our desperate phone calls to the shore were often turned down as the operators who work for years never know what world is existing next to them. It is truly ridiculous to notice that many workers in this country confine them selves to their small ambit of things and are quite ignorant of things around them. Kudos to India! We find many people who can run the whole show single handed in most organisations. Darwin is right. We are made fit to survive in our congested environ !
It is amazing to see so many water bodies throughout United Stated , most of them preserved and well maintained. We come across many huge lakes on our way and some of them virtually look like a sea. Many are used as good water sporting avenues. I feel privileged to travel along the coasts of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. I remember mugging up their names as the biggest river in the world ( Now with the changed statistics Amazon occupies the place) Fortunately it is not one of the the endangered rivers in their country. Heartrendingly our great lakes and reserve forests get shrunk by hundreds of acres every five years. They are often traded for votes and we can afford to loose our major rivers by sheer callousness.
Despite of our long coastal line most of us are alien to water sporting. For many of us swimming is fisherman's business. Lot number of us are scared of water. Our beaches are ill maintained and our love for sea is restricted to wetting our feet . For many of the Westerners who confine them selves in four walls during their severe winters, onset of summer is a boon. A small fishing pond is good enough to lure them to strip. The very fundamental of their adventurism is offshoot of their love for water. Not many of them are ignorant of swimming, a great human skill which we fail to acquire due to lack of proper facilities.
In spite of living on a riverside I was never encouraged to learn swimming. One reason being a girl, other being risk of death in a spate. On the day of reopening of my school I unmistakably noticed one missing head in my class. A moment later I was told that my little friend Radha Krishna was swept away in the fresh waters of the river never to return back . Not many parents were willing to send their children for swimming. That is how many of us remain alien for swimming. In modern times, with too many pools offering swimming coaching, many children end up with unfinished training and ear infections. Too many politics are involved with coaches and and their extra buck . Pools are crowded and breeding grounds for skin infections due lack of maintenance. Where do you produce world class swimmers?
My boating experience in lake of Ozark near St. Louis ended with confusion and chaos as we found very difficult to figure out our destination in a huge lake. An understanding came to me why our sailors ever carried their compass, as there are no land marks in water. Our pressing need to reach the shore within the stipulated time with a haunting threat that our every extra minute will be charged with five dollars was excruciating and our desperate phone calls to the shore were often turned down as the operators who work for years never know what world is existing next to them. It is truly ridiculous to notice that many workers in this country confine them selves to their small ambit of things and are quite ignorant of things around them. Kudos to India! We find many people who can run the whole show single handed in most organisations. Darwin is right. We are made fit to survive in our congested environ !
(Readers please watch the above picture is not photographed by me)
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WOW!!! Nice Post!Kind Regards
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