This was in the hostel I stayed during my
visit to Heidelberg, Germany. The hostel
was pretty. It had bunk beds in the rooms and some Victorian age décor in the
ceilings. As I was talking to the people
sitting in the lounge, my eyes wandered around the room. The front wall was filled
up with framed pics of various travellers who stayed in the hostel. The wall in
the right was adorned with huge world maps. What caught my attention was lots
of colourful pins protruding from the map.
I stood up and walked towards it. Seeing my interest, the people sitting
tried to explain it to me by pointing at the note written in the bottom corner.
‘Where do you come from? Take a pin and show us in the map!’ I was
fascinated and picked a red pin. Instinctively, I searched for India. As I
looked closely, to my surprise, even the states were mentioned. Automatically, my eyes moved eastwards, and
there it was, Assam, in black block letters adorned by a blue elongated patch
of Brahmaputra. A smile escaped my lips while inserting the pin. But the smile
broadened further when I saw a yellow pin already sitting there above the first
A of Assam.
A guy sitting there was kind enough to
capture the beautiful memory for me.
