Yes, it happened, life moved to a new version. Did I get married? haha, no, it's something else. The Transition I was in Berlin, Oct 2018, dream of Europe realized. Though it was just 5-days, but I got a worthy glance of those beautiful cities. It was all a rush for the GotoBerlin conference where Jaideep was doing a stage talk. Paras pitched me in as a co-speaker (because I couldn't get visa for ITB Berlin in March, he wanted to clear-off that flag from my mind. Kind of employee motivation stuff you do). Though I got only 8-minutes of that 45min talk, it was nevertheless a big opportunity on a big big stage. Berlin stage talk, Oct'19 Next day we were in Amsterdam for another talk at Booking.com office. It was a crazy tour. Well everything is rolling awesome, right. Sweet assumption, but truth was far. I was so much in trouble, I blurted out everything to Paras when I came back to India. My finances were stooping and I couldn't see any respite in sight. I remembered,
Fortunately it was summer.. not the winters, like the one I came in March.. in comfortable temperatures but amid dust storms, we were driving through the rough roads to a remote village in Changthang, on a camper.. my job this season was to meet the villagers and setup up homestays in the offbeat places where we installed power.. and also this time find appropriate site for setting up telescopes and identify women to be trained as part of our astronomy for development project.. As we entered the gravel roads, the first stone avalanche board appeared.. we just drove, humming the songs on my playlist, when we heard some rumblings on the roof.. fortunately it was just the front glass that cracked little, nothing major happened.. drive continued, and the music, and also continued this fortunate adventure.. the brakes were behaving abrupt, so we stopped a while for the machine to cool down.. there I spotted some interesting bird species in the Indus that flowed beside that gravel we drov