How did we reach Kurukshetra? Me and my wife took the train Kalka Shatabdi from New Delhi at 07:40 A.M. and arrived at Kurukshetra Railway Station by 09:45 A.M. It had rained almost throughout our train journey and it had stopped just in time for us to enjoy our tourist day 😊! This is the shortest time in which one can reach Kurukshetra from New Delhi. There are many other trains also; and, one can go by road as well which should take around 3½ to 4 hours from New Delhi. How did we commute within Kurukshetra? We had booked a local taxi (Guru Nanak Taxi service, Swift Dezire) on phone from Delhi itself, and our driver was waiting for us outside the Railway Station when we reached there. I told him about the places that we wanted to see, and he drew his plan to optimize the route. Our deal was to pay him INR 1300 at the end of the day (~7 P.M.) The deal that taxi owner offered by default was for 8 hours and 80 KMs. You don’t exceed 80 KMs although you do exceed 8 hours limit
Woah! … the title sounds heavy, isn’t it? However, after a lot of dilly-dallying in my mind, I was convinced that that’s apt of a heading name. We call an action a mistake when it bears results we rather wouldn’t want to occur; and, also sometimes, we call an action a mistake when we have strong premonition that it would turn out to be, well, a mistake! The premonition in the latter case arises out of the extent to which we twist the proven ways of doing something. It’s us – the Indians, who are twisting some of the utmost common time-tested practices of our ancient scientists, the Indian sages! Come to think of it, sages explained every vital aspect of living to common people of India. Their instructions are a classic example of using abstraction to make understanding easy. They conveyed essential What, How, Why to simple-minded householders. Their instructions were so much proven that they never had to take back any of them – ever! Common simple-minded people were intelli