Nagari mookku .

From the window of the chair car in the tail end of the train to Tirupati i could see the train take a curve
.A semi circle. An breath taking sight.The feat of technology in  a parcel of land dusted with powdered emeralds and sandstones  and velvetty boquets of parrot green grass growing wantonly in clumps on hillocks bordering the pastel shades of the land.
As i gazed at the slowly curving train words of appreciation at the picturusque sight it presented leapt into [microwaved?]mind .
The person , the engineer who planned and executed the curving track's intelligence and effort will be unrecognised until a person like me who can give words to my experiences, the thrill that is  felt ,writes it down and shares it on a public platform ,like this blog.

I realised that we were nearing Tirupati which would be an hour away when i saw Nagari mookku.The cliff of a small chain of hillocks that is shaped like a human nose.The Tamil word for nose is mookku.
In my countless visits to Tirupati in the past, most particularily in my childhood this cliff was always pointed out as an important landmark heralding the arrival of our destination,our anscestral home.I also heard a real happening 80 -100 years back , that of two of my distant relatives encountering a tiger in  a road in this area and of them running for their lives and escaping with it.
The Mookku came in view as  majestic as ever dominating the entire area and the land that lay beneath looked like as if it had received a lavish coat of golden green paint by aartist par excellence!
No fields .no forests, but just this generous dusting of grass on mud.
The once thick forests have gone .Decades back Thankfully an enticing coat of grass has replaced it.No man made constructions to blot out the natural beauty .How long will this untouched beauty last?
As the train curved and moved slowly ,saw two gaping wounds on two hillocks.A major part of their middle has been blasted out to make gravel.
 Will the same fate visit this famous landmark Nagari mookku one day?The two hillocks  are like its sentinel and they have been breached.Maybe it is a matter of time.
Next time i must take a snap of this cliff from my trains window.

Written on 10.8.16.

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photo of this cliff is from internet



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