January , 2006
The Chalukkudy Train
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Chalukkudy. A beautiful name. A town in Trissur district of Kerala. A town if you want to call it one. A village if you want to call it one. A hamlet, yes, it is a hamlet too. There is a Bangalore in Chalukkudy. Just as there is a Chalukkudy in Bangalore. The aperture of my eyes clicked countless times as I travelled from Bangalore to Chalukkudy. I have lost count of the pictures that the camera called my head took. The pictures have come out good, bad and blurred. The train which left Chalukkudy reached Bangalore finally, but it also touched Kiravatti in Uttara Kannada. It may sound strange if I say that it showed us the Baragodi rivulet of Kavadikere, the mechanic shop of Gaveguli Maachanna, and the fields of Jikkode. Because there is no train to Kiravatti. I met Pandu, the Yellapura bus....
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D P Satish has been a journalist for the past 11 years. Born at picturesque Jog Falls in Shimoga district of Karnataka, Satish did his graduation in English Literature. He is a post-graduate in Journalism from the prestigious Asian College of Journalism, Bangalore (now in Chennai). After a brief stint with the Indian Express Group, he shifted to TV. He also worked for an American news magazine called ' Image '. He has widely travelled and covered some of the biggest events from South of Vindhyas in the first decade of the 21st century. He is passionate about English literature, classical music, cinema, history, photography, jazz and Cricket. A self-proclaimed centrist, Satish keenly follows major political developments from across the World. He blogs regularly and spends hours searching for readable material from the Internet! He belives that journalism is a calling and a person meant to be a journalist, can't escape from it. A hillman at heart and by birth, Satish lives and works in New Delhi. But, loves Bangalore more than Delhi!
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