Again I resume writing after months, stimulated (perhaps) by the comments or misterios @ Bahr. " The reasons for this long pause are many, but one thing is certain: India, in the most unexpected ways and forms, became more and more in my life.
A Sekhar do not like to lead his Ambassador to inaccessible places. And down the steep streets in villages around Kovalam are no exception. At some point you can not go any further, but fortunately we arrived at Light House, the meeting place with Babu, my "contact" of Plato Studies Center, the NGO that I should visit in the coming days. I in fact an important humanitarian mission to accomplish: the delivery of five jars of Nutella in a school of Vizhinjam ...
I plan to stay a few days, just before the visit to the school of Plato SC I take this opportunity to relax a bit '. Babu is the man with the most reassuring smile I've ever seen printed on a human face. Everything about him, his hands, his size, his swaying gait invite you to relax, to let go. Claudia, green eyes that have guided me thus far, I had anticipated: care made by Babu! So do not do it so long and I agree to stay at the hotel where he works, which is also the place where is the office of Plato Studies Center. The Jeevan House is by the sea, everything is painted blue and has a small pool in the center very inviting. I'm just back from a tiring journey, but Babu understands everything on the fly and makes me sit on the beautiful terrace of the hotel, the ocean breeze, looks at me and says (with that wonderful smile and always with an accompanying hand gesture): " relax. " Then order a drink for me and I am, with an emphasis Indo-Roman: "how are you?". All of those words so brash and that smile, that is a mixture of irony and absolute generosity, they make me burst out laughing. Since that time Babu will be my brother and a guide.
In the days and months (I saw this summer in Barbagia Babu, in the shelter of my friends of the Research Center) will understand that Babu is not only a marvelous smile, but a kind of genie. There is no question that this man is not able to solve, by putting up a wall to dry to negotiate complex inter-ethnic conflicts. When you find out Shantaram (the wonderful novel by Gregory D. Roberts), I will be compared to Prabaker, but Babu, wisdom and guidance of legendary smile of the little Bombay immortalized by Roberts, combines the strength and the force of good that we all want to be always at our side.
