Seeing Seas 4

During the summer of 1986, we visited Puri in Orissa, which was a vacation of a lifetime. I have chronicled my autobiographical experience out there in a previous post. Its long coastline of golden sand along the Bay of Bengal gave a nine-year-old ample scope for fun and frolic. These fine sands adorn the east of this pilgrimage city. Beyond the soft shores, the sea is wild.

A vibrant fishing village had grown by the coast on which our palatial guest house overlooked. The fishermen, the riders to the sea, would offer rituals to the sea god to appease him, so that they could take their boats safely to the sea. Even when they lost lives in the foaming ocean, they stoically philosophized, “The sea never takes anything from us, it always gives, even if we die, we get fish. When we suffer losses, he always returns it to us in some way.”

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