A Visit to Mysuru
When on 23 rd June of 2025 I embarked on my official tour to Mysuru -the heart rendering images of the recent Ahmedabad air crash in which, besides others, more than 260 passengers had lost their lives, was in my fresh memory. It was getting further fueled by news in which dream liners were being grounded for inspection of some technical snags in their engines. A few emergency landings of Air India flights had a more compounding effect. Due to this scenario I intended to cancel my air tickets and instead travel to Mysuru in a train. My dear friend and colleague who had to make his sudden plans to visit Mysuru due to the same reason also inclined to perform the journey in train as we were hopeful that we would get train tickets. This could not materialize due to non- availability of seats. Hence the journey had to be performed in air as planned earlier. Anyhow there being no other alternative I gathered courage to f...