URB Scribbles

Dear Readers Thank you for the love that you shower. Apologies for being unable to bring stories to you of late.  Starting a new series of stories covering my recent trip to Uttar Pradesh with this first chapter that shares the first leg of the journey. This November, circumstances so occurred that I got an opportunity to visit Uttar Pradesh. Although very mundane and dismal it appears as a destination in plain sight, nevertheless what lies within is anything but mundane. Of course UP does not figure in the ‘to be there’ list of the backpack, ruff and tuff travelers of our times. The lot that finds solace at sightings as exotic as snowy mountains and Oriental demography and loves lingering around in roof top cafes waiting for the sun to set, I tell you shall rarely connect with UP. My experience in UP is less fit to be told or shared and more apt to be lived in and felt. My quest of UP begun with a morning train from Hazrat Nizamudin Railway Station ...