Wave Towers

Travel in India is always fascinating and it also is scope for some very amusing observations. Traveling through some remote areas is even more hilarious when the people you travel with are obsessed with staying in touch. Be it a loved one, a close friend/confidant, friends, works or even casual acquaintances, the wonder called mobile phones have brought the world closer.

The urge to contact becomes even more frustrating when you accidentally receive a message asking to call immediately. Wondering what the emergency is, up goes your hand with the little wonder of mobile connectivity(the mobile phone). Strange is the sight of a person trying very desperately to catch a single wave and even stranger is the sight of the frustration the person exhibits once the couple of seconds of connectivity passes by!

The world has advanced quite a bit I must say from the era of land lines to high speed and advanced communications. But when we become addicts to the marvels of technology it sure provides a sight.

Recently on my trip to the lovely coffee hamlet of Coorg instead of the usual and overpowering aroma of the coffee plantations it was the hilarious sight of people atop roofs that caught my senses. Driving through the twisty roads is enough to grab one’s attention but the stranger sight of silhouettes on roof tops was a urge too irresistible to ignore.

Stopping at a hilltop and looking down at a retiring town I couldn’t but wonder how many of us have become slaves to communication. (Well for those of you who are wondering am I against communication I assure you I am not. I to have very so often become a slave to the above syndrome). On top of almost every house there were youngsters moving about in a very co-ordinated dance form trying to catch that one direction that provides an undisturbed communication channel.

Watching this dance of human wave towers is fascinating as it also brings about reactions of happiness, anger, frustrations and accomplishment. Thank god for the reactions otherwise we would have been reduced to rather strange mobile towers!