Manipal beach house
November 2024. A clear moonlit night at a beach house near Manipal on the picturesque Karnataka coastline – indeed an enviable setting. But what made the night most charming was the fact that I was with three people very dear to my heart – my cousin Goutham Dikshith, my uncle Gananath Dikshith (fondly Gana uncle), and my high school friend and distinguished radiologist Dr. Praveen Shastry, who I was seeing in person after ages.
The bus journey to Manipal from my hometown Mysuru (Mysore) the previous night had not been a very pleasant one, and a dose of a good night’s sleep probably would have been “the doctor’s prescription”. Yet I was invigorated by the sheer rarity of the moment. Lots of things to talk about, so little time – the crashing and swashing of the Arabian sea on the rocks nearby merely symbolised all the emotions and thoughts wanting to gush out of me.