Ether

Couple of days back I visited a place that I had been planning to visit for a long time. Had heard so much about it, seen fascinating visuals on screen, read unbelievable accounts of its diversity and cosmopolitan culture. And yet when I visited, everything that I had heard, read and seen was not even close to what it was. The place and the experience was truly out of this world. The inhabitants were moving around nonchalantly, there was no particular order but also no chaos. Just perfect synchronization. The terrain wasn't smooth but everything felt perfect. There was pollution but not what you see and feel in all big cities of the world. The 'pollution' was more natural the dust/mud is only because of some naturally occurring events. The place was 5 kms of the coast of Goa. From being a tourist on the shores of Goa, I became a foreigner just a few kilometers of the mainland. The minute I dived into the sea, I witnessed the unbelievable world under water. I did my first sc...