Parina Einjen

The location was the Lal Bagh Botanical Garden in Bangalore. The rain in such a huge and beautiful garden was making the environs very romantic.  Trees , shrubs, flowering plants, greenery, and in between I could see lovebirds in the lovely drizzling weather. Walking around in such a nice place with fascinating surroundings was a really awesome and phenomenal experience. I visited a bed of small zinnia flowers, a tree fossil, one big white silk cotton tree, pruned trees in different shapes, and then I came to a big water storage body.  I was staring far through the water storage body, absorbed in such a lovely environment, and my engrossment was disrupted by so many noises. At first, I got irritated by the noises as they were disturbing me on my comfortable lone journey. But as I saw beautiful and charming faces, I forgot everything. It was a small group of school children with their three teachers. In between, I'd like to mention that the department of horticulture of the sta...

It is a purely Indian sub-urban market where I can find anything, such as fruits, vegetables, provision stores, pani-puri lorries, a popular chaat shop, different banks, clothing shops, and, more interestingly, a famous shop selling Rasgulla and Gulab jamun (both of which are popular in Odisha). I like the place very much. I used to go there whenever I visited Salepur with my sister-in-laws. Salepur is a district town in Odisha. Odisha is culturally very rich and the people of Odisha firmly believe in God. Here, people are not businessmen by nature, like Gujaratis. Usually, men prefer to do jobs, especially government jobs, while women do domestic work only. There is no importance to business. Even businessmen face difficulty in finding a woman for marriage. Married women rarely wear punjabi suits; they wear sarees mostly (in sub-urban and rural areas). Women do the majority of the cooking and household work. Once, I visited one shop with my sister-in-law to buy some clothes in the sa...