“Welcome to the Land of Gods” is a signboard that will greet you the moment you reach the Garhwal Himalayas. What Arun Kolatkar wrote about Jejuri is quite true about the Garhwal Himalayas too: “what is god / and what is stone / the dividing line / if it exists / is very thin / at jejuri / and every other stone / is god or his cousin” (in the poem, A Scratch ). On my way to Gomukh from Gangotri My recent trekking to Gomukh with a group of 35 students taught me quite many a lesson about gods of all hues including wealth. We started our trekking from Gangotri soon after breakfast. Gangotri, as the name implies, is (supposed to be) the origin of the holy river Ganga. We had reached Gangotri a day before our trekking with enough time left for a wandering in the holy mount. One of the places that caught our fancy during our wandering was the wooden cabin of a Baba (sage) who lives very close to the place where the Ganga spouted forth lustily through the gap between two r
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