Recently I visited my home town after one year with my cousin brother and this time I booked train ticket from Bangalore. It has always been a great journey for me whenever I have travelled by train. Watching the fields, distant land, people working, trees, mountains and houses gave me a wonderful experience. I felt that my country indeed has lots to offer and great diversities. My journey started from south western part of India and ended in the eastern part and I reached my home after travelling through six states. It was a long journey of about two days and I was thinking what I should do during my travel. So, I looked into my stack of books and I found a book written by our ex-president, a great scientist and a great teacher, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The book was "Wings of Fire".
It is indeed a great book which not only gives us the experiences of Dr. Kalam but also motivates us to do the likes. Through his experiences he has imparted a sea of knowledge to us. Apart from all the events which he has beautifully written, I liked his scribbled poems. It felt difficult sometimes to fully understand what he actually meant but I gave sufficient time to each of his stanzas. The end result was that I ended the book while returning from home to Bangalore. An old Bengali gentleman, who was having his reservation in front of mine while returning, told me that he has read the book twice and described me his understandings of the book. He was a very friendly person and liked to talk much.
It was a great learning journey as I travelled by train for so long after three years. At the end I decided to take a book on every journey of mine now onwards.
