Saturn is ill

Er, no. I am ill, and we saw Saturn.

Ill Again

Same thing but different reason. This time I think it was the fruits yesterday, and all the exhaustion. Dumb kind of a day. Spent in bed, eating khichri, wishing that the lake was not so far away.

Saturn

Thanks to one Kriti Bajaj’s persistence over long distance phone calls, about nine assorted people got to see Saturn through the telescope (the big one) at the observatory at Nainital. Kriti saw Jupiter, so we thought we’d see Saturn just for the variety. Ha-ha! No, actually, that was the only planet (thankfully) visible over the cloudy skies of Nainital. It was great fun, since I’ve done nothing of the sort before, but the observatory itself was decidedly primitive. Let me not get into the details, but it was built in 1952 by the USA to track their Moon missions. Now it’s just used by dumb students to do their doctoral research. Tch.

We visited the Hanuman Gadi temple before that. Now these hilly temples are something really nice. Its one thing to build huge, sprawling marble ISCONS and Akshardhams in the plains, but its these tiny, neat and clean, built along the slope temples, which have all the character. Loved it. Excellent atmosphere, great flowers, I don’t mind ringing bells so much in the hills.

We leave tomorrow night. Half the people have already left. *sniff*