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On the top of Tiffindara Lava Monastery

Snowfall at Rishop

Rishop-A place of Serenity

“The softly-warbled song

Comes from the pleasant woods, and coloured wings
Glance quick in the bright sun, that moves along

The forest openings.”
It took three hours almost to reach there and as we
visited the LavaMonastery, we forgot the fatigue of the day.
I felt I could hear someone uttering ‘Buddhang Smarang
The Mountain & the Mist
Gacchami’ in the midst of calmness and serenity. Should
I ever return?
and becomes invisible - somewhere meets the Neora river
Three days passed and now it was the time to say
inside the valley. Perhaps the watch was ticking fast. Now
goodbye to Rishop– to the Himalayas. Back to home, the
we had to return before the sun went down.
same routine and same life. But above all, a fresh memory
On the third day we were ready before 5 o’clock in the and a new waiting for a new year and a new destination.
morning. Our destination was Lava, the neighbouring
hamlet of Rishop. With water and snacks on back
and a walking stick in hand, we took a trek route of 4
kilometres through the Neora Valley forest. We walked Diptyajit Das
amazed listening to the chirping of birds, might be thrush, Department of English
robin and babbler, and looking at the horizon where the
mountain mingled with the mist, peeping sometimes
through the forest openings. I couldn’t resist myself from
reciting loudly a few lines from Longfellow-

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