VIENNA- THE GREAT. NO.1 CITY ON THE EARTH Anilkumar Sivamogga had reached Vienna fifteen days prior to me & Mahesh Nagaraja visting this wonderful city. When we flied from Krakow, it was first time a serious check by security we had undergone at the airport. A detailed verification of passport with international checks and special procedure altogether. Upon our arrival on beautiful Vienna on a evening, we were picked up by a lady who looked as elder sister of late London’s princess Diana and took me to our place of stay. She is the driver of the taxi which was arranged for me. I just saw casually the speed of her driving, it was cool -210. Vienna deserves No.1 city on the world title. It is an excellent place for sightseeing.Naavu Vienna bandhu raathri swalpa hotthu nodidha Kannada Chalana Chithra-namma favourite Dr.Rajs - Naa Ninna Mareyale & Bhaktha Kanakadasa. I was also in touch with Vijendra over chat around this trip and Vijendra made my Vienna Trip Memorable. Vienna is a wonderful city. But, I feel it as another good looking European City like Hamburg or Berlin or Paris in France.I do not know how ranking system is done. But, Vienna no doubt deserves No.1 title. I also rate Bangalore and Mysore are ultimate cities on the world. Sigmund Freud - Father of Psychology is from Vienna & one great Bethoven is also from this city. MDCCVXLII belong to both Krakow and Vienna.There is a place called Rathaus where International Film Festival was going on and we enjoyed the big display screen and international audience. International Poetry is encouraged at Krakow & Vienna. As recommended by friend Vijendra,see if you can google Viktor Frankl and read about him and also Franz Kafka If you are interested in knowing about the history of the places at Vienna I visited, their political systems, their cruelties, their literature. Viktor Frnakl is a psychoanalyst of tremendous standing-A Jew, who underwent unimaginable cruelty in a concentration camp in Poland(Auschwitz)He not only survived the horror, but retained his sanity, even balance to write a brilliant book: Mans Search for Meaning of Life. Vijendra also describes that he often imagined Ravi Belagere writing the same in a book. Atma marukada mahapooravanne harisi yellarannu shokataptarannagisi aa shokasagaradalli taanu yekangiyagi, nirummalavaagi doniyalli viharisbiduttiddaneno Aa pariya durantha, vedaneyannu anubhavisi, sambadhigalannella kaledukondu, naaveega maataaduttiruvashtu sahajavaada dhatiyalli concentration campina bheekara aagu-hogugalanna chitrisiddanne Viktor. I had travelled extensively and covered all historical places at Vienna. I have not read any books, but feeling like reading many books. I had a nice chat with Vijendra from Vienna and here is brief text, which I liked most and motivated me to share the same with you without his permission. Please find time to read Franz Kafka, at least one of his books. The trial to make a beginning. Read it when you are in Vienna/Poland itself. He writes chilling stuff.You will know the horrors of communism. If you read him (or Viktor Frankl) now, who knows, you may write a brilliant book by yourself on your return.If not anything else, you may be able to appreciate the power and beauty of their writings much better while being there. You will be able to relate to them better. Reading the two authors - or any other European author - or, even listening to any of the masters of European classical music may be a good way of immunizing yourself from the unpleasant things that keep upsetting your composure with!!Please also read about the life of Mozart even if on the net. Having spent a life time - which, luckily for him, was short - of tedium, he is abandoned at his funeral by his wife. She stays at home because it is cold out and raining. I feel I am an ignorant idiot when compared to Col PM Gopinath.He has travelled the length and breadth of India; he has read what I may not do in another ten life time. He has been through the rough and tumble having exposed himself to the harshest of circumstances, including extremities of climate and war. He has not once spoken about his adventures in the style of Belagere.Hope I am not talking too much about my own brother. I know that I am looking at him as an outsider. He has a greater understanding of journalism than I have.Two nights back, he called me up late in the night to share a thought Nani Palkhiwallah, the man whom we learned to respect early in our lives as a jurist of expert, a civil activist, a chartered accountant par eminence, an orator par excellence and what not,he apparently stood in support of Warren Anderson, the Union Carbide chief. He favored, my brother told me quoting Vinod Mehtha, that compensation to the gas victims be paid in the US!! Lastly,when we were getting back from Vienna to Krakow, I saw two girls happily enjoying their times on the plane. They were capturing pictures of sky and city from the plane since we arrived around 10pm.These girls were again polish girls and do not know English. But, everlasting smile was there on the face of a girl. I remembered an advise from a Bangalore friend Preetha that I must smile when I pose for a photograph.I just practiced it. I did not speak to those two Polish girls though they were sitting previous to my seat.To my surprise, I found both of them working for my Company-Krakow Office and I saw them at my office. I got two new friends and of them, the girl with everlasting smile prompted me to say a message to all of you to stay Happy and Smiling always.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:38:28 +0000
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