Friday, July 07, 2006

Conversations

As long and tedious as a train journey can get, it is an equal pleasure to travel across India and just watch colours, movements and conversations. A couple in conversation, with children playing around, a group of women in conversation, two men relaxing on the benches and catching up with the day's events; from across the train window you never hear a single word and yet those conversations make beautiful visuals. Just as you lean over the window and square in on a particular area, the train moves and the whole scene slowly transforms into a waving tree, the sudden colour of a flying bird and a sudden excitement fills the body and the mind...