Some of these pictures were taken at my mom’s native place, Nochimalai. This place is where my grandfather’s farm land is located and its a dwelling place for close to 100 people. I am sure everyone in this village would be related to me somehow or the other, and I don’t have a plan of tracking them up or down the complex multi-noded family relationship tree. Its been many years since I visited Nochimalai and not much has changed with the exception of real estate value. A few of them recognized me (starting with “kuppamma”) through my facial features and asked me about my mom and uncles, to which I simply answered – ‘everyone is doing fine’. Kuppamma was walking her cattle through a small patch of grass and and she seemed so well connected to nature and mother earth in everyday life and she wouldn’t need any aroma therapy Bath or Body Apothecary, like most of us do.

Cattle
Sheep, which ran away from the new comer

I met these kids near a ancient concrete water tank

So much emotions - i have no words to describe

So much emotions - i have no words to describe

This is the farm “well” where I learn’t swimming when I was 8 years old. I love this place….:-) I wanted to give the water a big hug. Being a piscean – I feel at home near water and I feel at heaven when am in water.

NO Life guard on Duty

NO Life guard on Duty

I was a little scared..:-)

My encounter with Lord Ganesh…Taken inside Tiruvannamalai temple