Tomichan Matheikal's blog

The last time I visited there was only the bakra Now there are both - bakra and bakri That's life [Bakra and bakri are part of my private life.  I'm just publicising it :)]

I lived in Ernakulam (Kochi, Kerala) for about 6 years.  I was a student.  It's always nostalgic for me to go back to that city on whose roads I cycled kilometres and kilometres - especially from college to the Public Library and back to college during off  or boring periods. The city has changed much from those days (1980s).  The marine drive looks totally different.  The backwaters smell putrid.  They smell of business, in fact.  Here is a ship/boat that runs the business.

I was at Ernakulam (Kochi, Kerala) last month and fortunate enough to be taken for a ride (a boat ride, I mean) in the night. The backwaters smelled so bad that my companions who were not used to the smell of backwaters grimaced. But the virtual reality is always nice. The virtual reality belongs to the affluent - those who know how to surmount the real reality!