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Murti Part-2

It is a winter evening. We are sitting inside the cottage at Resort Murti. We four people have finished two plates of the egg pakoras as the evening snack (If you are interested about the pakora distribution plan and how much it deviated during execution, please read my previous post). We have given order for the dinner. We have ordered rice, dal (dish made from lentils), mixed vegetables and fish.

We have come out of the cottage to look around the resort. Its a big resort and there are many cottages all around. Pathways covered with small sand stones are connecting them. The resort looks neat and clean. Many decorative dustbins are placed at strategical positions. We are noticing many tourists are present in the resort. Almost all of them are family groups. At the center of the resort, there is an open ground covered with grasses. Here we can see a preparation is going on for a barbecue. Families are chit-chatting here and there. Their kids are playing nearby them. 

We can see some local men and women are present here wearing their traditional dresses. They also have some traditional musical instruments with them. So they have come to entertain the tourists. Since many tourists are present in the resort today, the resort probably has organized an traditional dance event to entertain the guests.

Now the dance event has started. Women are dancing and singing together. The men are playing the musical instruments. The rhythm is mild. The song is a traditional one to be sung by a choir. 

Next dance is going on now with chorus song. The rhythm is intense now. The men are also dancing while playing the musical instruments. The barbecue is also started. In the light of the barbecue the musical event has become mystic. Soumendu has fetched his camera from the room. He is capturing a video of this event by placing his camera on a chair.

The musical event

Now a lady from a family among the tourist groups has joined the dance. She is trying to follow the footsteps and match the rhythm. Seeing this some other ladies from the guests are also joining the dance group. Soumendu has captured clips of some dances performed so far. A whole chicken is nearly cooked in the barbecue. I am feeling a bit disheartened because we will not get any serving of the chicken.

After watching the dance performance we have returned to our room. We all four are sitting together and having some drinks. We are having some chit-chats. Soumya is now playing some songs in his mobile phone. These songs are the hits from the recent. We all are enjoying the songs played in light volume while continuing our discussions. Nope, we all are not enjoying the songs. Soumendu is making strong objection about the song selections. He is saying that this type of song should not be played in this kind of evening. He is now going to play some songs from his mobile phone, so Soumya has stopped playing songs from his mobile.

We are now listening to the songs that Soumendu is playing from his cell phone. These are the songs from sixty or seventy years back. Soumendu is saying that we should listen to this type of song in the current context that we are at present (in this tour). The inherent message to us like all good boys should listen to these kind of good songs only. He seems enjoying the song and singing with it. The rest of us are trying hard to be good boys. ;)
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Murti

We have done with our Chilapata safari. Now we are heading to Murti. We have said goodbye to our Chilapata guide. Its a winter evening. Hasanur is driving fast. Old Hindi songs are getting played on the music system. We all are singing with it on familiar lines. Specially Argha is not stopping singing at all. He is enjoying the trip. We all are enjoying the trip.

Its a moonlit night. Otherwise it would be dark everywhere. There are some lights wherever markets or human habitations are present. Probably we are now taking a shortcut. This path is going through a dry river bed. The journey seems a bit long to me. 

 Road map from Chilapata to Murti

( I left the scale in geometry box long time back )

The place Murti is situated at the bank of river Murti. This place is located close to the Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Gorumara National Park. We are currently going through the forest. Its dark inside. Hasanur has stopped the car on a small bridge. He is telling that elephants avoid bridges. So we have stopped on the bridge. All lights are turned off. We are sitting inside the car and all the windows are opened. We all are enjoying the beauty of jungle in the night. And we are enjoying it silently. 

Now we have crossed the jungle and moving on a bridge. The river Murti is flowing under the bridge making a nice sound. Our destination for tonight is on the other side of the river. I am feeling tired after this long car journey. 

We have reached at Resort Murti. We have booked a cottage here. I went with Soumya on a weekend to book all the accomodations from Kolkata. We first went to the office of West Bengal Forest Development Corporation Limited (WBFDC). There we could not get booking in the WBFDC cottages. All the WBFDC accommodations to our desired destinations were already booked. We were thinking about what to do. Then one employee of WBFDC informed us about a private travel agency who can make arrangements for our accommodation. We then walked for some time and reached at that travel agency. From there we have done the bookings.

At Murti, the resort we are staying is not far from the river Murti. The resort is spacious and nice. It seems newly built. The cottage we are staying is very big. The room has two big sized double beds. In between there is comfortable sitting arrangements with a nice center table. The bathroom is also very big. The floor and walls all are white and looks clean. We are very happy to see our accommodation.

There is a badminton court in front of our cottage. Soumendu is playing badminton there with some other tourists who are staying in the same resort. The rest of us are relaxing inside the room. We have ordered two plates of Egg Pakora and it has just reached. There are eight peaces of pakora in every plate. We are total four people. So there are four peaces per head. Its a winter evening and the pakora is hot. So no point of waiting to turn them cold. I am sharing a plate with Argha and we are having equal number of peaces. Soumya is goint to share his plate equally with Soumendu. But since Soumendu is playing badminton, Soumya is hitting a ton with the pakoras. And ultimately just one peace is left for Soumendu.

Now Soumendu has returned after playing badminton. He has attempted to catch fish from the badminton court. Thanks to his Woodland shoes. Now we all are sitting inside the room and having chats. Soumendu is eating that single peace of egg pakora after making a very soft complaint. 
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