Grand Canyon in India !!!

Recently I had been to Mahabaleshwar, located near Pune (Maharastra, India), hardly 100 Km away towards Satara. What I saw was something out of the world. As I was gazing at the divine art work, I was awe stuck and my thoughts started wondering in different directions.

4 years back I was in Grand Canyon, U.S.A, Arizona. I went on a visit to Grand Canyon with my friends and what I felt there was very similar. I had then thought “Grand Canyon” was nature’s master piece and as they rightly say one of the natural wonders. I strongly felt that there can be nothing parallel to it, but here I am standing in disbelief. I felt like a new born sleeping in his mother’s lap for the first time and feeling that there can be no better place in the world and then she takes him in her hands and gently holds him close to her chest, he goes to sleep instantly with the same comfort and thus learning his first lesson of life. “Mother is infinite”.

I was lost in the intricate folds of the canyon walls and again my thoughts started to flow as through flowing through those folds. Nature has blessed all of us with the same beauty, land, sun, stars, mountains and canyons but she left us to shape our vision ourselves. Canyons and mountains are same everywhere , but it’s up to us whether we dig it up to produce cement or admire it with respect.




Growth is essential for a nation or an individual, but it’s a matter of cost. The cost we pay for the growth. With the depleting forest reserves and maddening expansion of polluting cities, Mahabaleshwar and Grand Canyon are still standing as walls against the greed and insanity of humanity. These are treasures of love and beauty which once we had in abundance.