Project 2020

I can’t quite remember the day when this strange thought entered my mind. The thought to see India…the Incredible India! As the seconds passed, the thoughts moved like a drunken tornado and in a short time I was filled with this excitement … a feeling you get when you punch the air and shout YES! The thoughts had transformed into a goal … a dream I should say. A dream to visit the current states in India by the year 2020. Amibitious? Well, that is what even I thought considering the money I’m making at Infosys now! Perhaps, somewhere I had the urge to travel … but not something big like this.

To spice up this project …the thoughts incubated into certain rules to be applied to it. Every game has its rules and rules make them interesting … so why not here, I pondered. After some thinking I made up the rules ...and here they are:-

Rule1: The dream starts from scratch; no state visited will be taken into count.

I’m living in Karnataka since ever, and the next day I should have count as one … but wait here comes the rule2

Rule2: To capture something that the state is know / famous for. This has to do with a bug that bit me very recently – Photography. So what could be captured? It can be anything … a place/ a monument / an art / a dish / a famous person!

Rule3: I have to stay in every state for 2 days at least

Rule4: Only the current states will be considered, any split or merge b/w the states will not be accounted. I also wanted to see Andaman and Nicobar considering its connection with India’s history. So, 28 + 1 is the final number.

Rule5: Of course, this project ends on 31 December 2020.

Rule6: Let me tell you in advance that you won’t like this rule! OK the rule is - I will be alive until 31 December 2020 … I told ya, you won’t like this ;-)

Well that’s it … I guess nearly 6 months have passed since the day I dreamt. I felt I should document it somewhere...so here I’m writing my first blog.