SHIVA BLUE

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I breathe in and breathe out - India. It’s been my love since early childhood, my education and my profession. I can’t stay far from India, bad times or happy times, it’s a part of me.

The recent situation has been complicated. Mainly due the uncertainty with our lost tickets, cancelled flights and mess up with documents. Some visas had to be registered urgently due to prolonged staying in India, but FRRO website started working from bad to worse (due to increased number of applicants I guess), some flat owners started refusing to give C forms or giving hints to leave urgently. There was a lot of confusion initially. We all were very tensed when rules and regulations were changing almost every hour.

However, on the brighter side, Goans were friendly and I was asked by strangers’ whether I’m having food and money. I never saw gloomy faces in shops during short hours of opening. On the contrary people were trying to cheer up each other.

On the other hand, it was painful to see so many hungry street dogs and we were always trying to feed them. The most difficult trial was to see how people whom you considered a friend were changing colours and becoming ignorant in your request to help in matters where it's nothing for a local but complicated for a foreigner, i.e. to register you in your house. At the end I truly hope humanity as a whole has a learning lesson, if not then we are hopeless losers & desperate dumbos.

Shiva blue and Kali Ma's night, the colours I associate to hope to tomorrow - Svetlana Chizhova (Linguist & Journalist/Freelancer for Bollywood)

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