What does one go home for? The obvious answer is easy – to spend time with people who\u00a0matter in one’s life. To note –\u00a0even that changes during one’s lifetime. But if I have to dig a bit deeper, Rana Dasgupta’s words make sense –\u00a0when one becomes homesick, it is not a place that one seeks, but oneself, back in time. <\/em>And when one does that, the props matter. The places, the faces, all reminders of different\u00a0phases. When they no longer exist, the place is no longer a cure for homesickness.<\/p>\n Some mad levels of rain ensured that travel within Kerala was impossible this time. Thanks to that, and other reasons, we didn’t even go to Cochin. Or at least what I consider the town, because we did manage to drop in at one of the must-see places these days – LuLu Mall. And as I watched the crowds, I realized that I was a tourist, I didn’t belong. I could speak the language, and many things in my behavior would be result of my upbringing here, but I couldn’t relate.<\/p>\n As Pico Iyer has said, \u201cHome is not just the place where you happen to be born. It\u2019s the place where you become yourself.<\/em>\u201d And thus I also came to the realisation that the self I am now has largely been made where I live now – Bangalore. From the people I met here, the places I am familiar with, and the spaces that make me comfortable. And maybe that’s why in my mind, it has become home.<\/p>\n It made me wonder – what is worse? When one\u00a0has to move on from one’s home, or when one has to move on from one’s idea of home?<\/p>\n P.S. There is a Welsh\u00a0word that captures my feeling best<\/p>\n On our way to the airport, for what would be one of our shortest trips to Kerala, I told D that I didn’t see myself making this journey a decade from now.\u00a0At least not framed in the way we do it these days – a trip home. I was wrong – it happened way sooner […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,412,6268],"tags":[379,936,318,5445,376,4943],"class_list":["post-12660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-life","category-self","tag-bangalore","tag-belonging","tag-cochin","tag-hiraeth","tag-home","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12677,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12660\/revisions\/12677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"hiraeth-word-nerd-via-lawhimsy\"](\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/hiraeth-word-nerd-via-lawhimsy.png\")
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