Goli No 19.... Nagesh's adventures continues....

........my adventures with nagesh continued till 1980........he had great fascination for mountains ........ sometimes he would take me to mumbra ....for hiking and trecking.....mumbra devi temple ......on the top of a dongar in mumbra ..........two stations away from dombivili ....... on central line in mumbai....... after three hrs of trecking and some rock climbing in monsoons ........ we would reach the top of the cliff ..............nagesh was shivaji maharaj...........and i was tanaji ......... as the summit would get conquered nagesh would post a kathi flag.......a stick with a chindi cloth....and shout jai bhavani.......i would support jai shivaji.........

from the top of the cliff we would see the twisted snake like creeks ....... mumbra - dombivili tracks with trains criss crossing .......like tiny ants...the wind blowing on our face.........and nagesh would go to the edge of the cliff......sit on the edge legs dangling ..........200 ft above ground level............i would shrug from going to the edge.......and nagesh would say........chal venkyaaa bindaas kai hoth nai.......

............nagesh had the same fascination for the sea.........one day he took me to diva khaadi.......a creek connected to arabian sea.........on the fringes of dombivili.........except for one or two fishing boats ............nagesh and me would get in to our undies and jump in to the shallow creek waters and try swimming.......

some fisher men warned us against the dangerous sinking sand......but nagesh would say .....venkyaaa chal bindaas ......kai hoth nai.............some times he would request the fisherman to take us into the sea...... and one day nagesh with a tyre around his back and a rope tied to the boat..... jumped into the sea........ with gay abandon....... and i could hear "Venkyaa Chal udi maar kai hoth nai".......

...... I had many more memorable adventurous moments with Nagesh..... like spending a night in a chinchach jhaad (tamrind tree) ...... waiting for ghosts to appear....... and getting inside a huge deserted well on the outskirts of dombivili........ this all continued till 1980's....... when we were still a tenant in his bungalow ....... and then we shifted residence ....... I got into a new friend circle ...... completed my college ...... moved to mumbai ....... got married ....... got into business ....... I forgot all about nagesh ..... till.......