Re: Davanagere (Karnataka): An offbeat & overlooked Heritage destination Quote:
Originally Posted by smartcat Like everybody else, we thought we would be celebrating Diwali holidays at home by lighting diyas and launching solid-fueled rockets. However, my wife remembered that last 2 Diwali holidays aftermath was not exactly a great experience. Thanks to all the smoke, my son suffered from bronchitis (cough/ phlegm) that lasted for at least a week on both the occasions. So at the last moment, we decided to flee Bangalore city.... |
smartcat......As usual, a wonderfully detailed travelogue from you about your thoughtful life choices. I especially enjoy the tone of your narratives - neutral and sober and yet interesting. Lovely photographs too. Lots of clarity and lots of information. I love history and historical sites. Looks like Karnataka has a bunch of stuff for me to see. My parents live in Mysore. So, I make it a point to bookmark your travelogues in the hope that I will be able to take the family along to these sites one of these days when we are visiting them...!!
Incidentally, it is good that you approached Diwali differently. At my house, we have not burst crackers in the last 3 years. Too much money goes up in smoke. This Diwali, a spark from one of those rockets caused a fire in the balcony of the top floor flat in our society. Luckily, it got put out in time and the whole episode served as a good lesson for the society. When all of us (around 700 at least) were standing downstairs looking up at the firemen working, I'll bet everyone was thinking about how differently things could have turned out that day. Really, these crackers serve no useful purpose for modern day living. They need to be gone.
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It is good that you choose to not write a literal account of your travels wherein the emphasis is on the chronological order of things rather than on information that could be more useful to readers. I have read travelogues here that, though wonderful, make liberal usage of phrases like “...then on Monday morning...”, or “...we wanted to reach by the 12th...”. There are two primary problems with such an approach.
1.) Travelogues about long trips (spanning multiple days or weeks) take up multiple pages here. They take a long time to read and require commitment from readers. Whether someone does it in one sitting or in multiple sittings, the truth is that a reader typically loses all sense of time as it unfolded for the traveler/s. This makes chronology less useful; and sometimes it is downright cumbersome. I mean, if readers have to make sense of a sentence like “... then on Tuesday..”, they will first have to remember which day they are reading about currently, not to mention summon up to mind the exact calendar details of the trip till that point in the write-up. This is really hard to do; and quite unnecessary because...
2.) Readers typically are a.) looking to connect with the experience that the travelers had, and/or b.) looking for useful information so that they can plan a similar trip.
So chronological mentions, while factually correct, offer very little value otherwise. In my opinion, the emphasis in any travelogue must always be on the emotion that the traveler/s experienced; and on information like travel arrangements, costs, weather, etc.
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