Our luggage is on its onward movement to Kochi and the house has been handed over to the authorities. The last serial was the most painful of our current trip to Delhi - saying goodbye to Bruno, at his final resting place.
Lekha and me spent a fairly long time out there and felt reluctant to leave him. Both of us are aware of the fact that a part of us lay with Bruno, beneath that mound of earth. And it was for this main reason that we never even wanted to think about a move, for us, out of Delhi.
We recalled our arrival around midnight in the month of Jun 2000, at the Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station, for our onward trip to the house at Sector 21 of NOIDA. He seemed to be more excited than us to have finished the long journey by train and was a riot at the station, pulling me in different directions. The next three years, till his unfortunate end on 16 Mar 2003, saw him criss cross to places, in and around Delhi, like Agra, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Dehra Dun and Mussorie! He'd also become a darling of the I AC staff of the Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani by virtue of our annual homebound trips on vacation!
Was he then aware of the fact that Delhi would become his final resting place? Recounting his initial enthusiasm, I daresay that he did have an inkling! His gravesite shall always remain a place of pilgrimage for us whenever we visit Delhi in future!!
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