I have done the same(former part of your article) ! I have silenced the ambient noises of the city with the headphones of my music player. I could not afford an apple ipod , so mine is a lesser one in price and features. My music was mostly Indian and yours were most probably English. I have tried to shut out unconnected people out of my lives.

Last November I was touring rural Trivandrum with a purpose and I was biking alone towards Palode. I was passing through a particularly hilly terrain and for a kilometer i came across no human being. The endless green plantations on my sides let me wonder whether I am off-route, and trespassing through private estate land. There along a bend on the road that was upward slopy too , I met an old man walking. I asked him direction to Palode and viola I was on the way. For another one kilometer I met no one. And then the small hamlets so particular of rural Kerala (the state/province of which Trivandrum is the capital) started re-appearing.

This time one among the rustic folk connected with me.
“Man cannot walk alone. Man has to walk different roads” - quoted from faint memory.

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i stumbled upon your blog while searching for prabhat samgiita. I was led to your flickr post. Then reaching your blog was a natural consequence. I do not know whether I will visit again. But it was a thrill to realize that there are people worth connecting to.

When I am clueless I too embark on journeys of meditation and learning. I have tried to learn of God. In thus my pursuits he has eluded me. But He often comes to me in subtle ways; in travel as a guiding light, in cyberspace as delightful blogs and in pursuits as challenges.

Fellow margi.
VISHNU MENON M