Light of the Lamp

 Hi,         When I informed my neighbour and relative that we were going  to Ooty with our running group, they blinked and confirmed twice when I said I am going to see that hill station for the first time! In my school,  my classmates used to circulate this small poem :              'First do your duty,             Then marry a beauty,             Have honeymoon at Ooty,             Bring back a kutty.(child)'  My husband dismissed it by saying what sub standard poems we were circulating!              Majority of the readers would have gone to Ooty and so I do not feel I should give a grand description of the place! My first and perfect impressions of Udhagamandalam was shattered when I saw many of the places there was spoilt by commercialization and over population which has led to lot of deforestation and building houses and other structures on many of those hills! The houses on those hills looked colourful from the far though there was no uniformity as we see in western na