we then drove to South City Mall and had a great evening at the Flame and Grill restaurant.
We skipped the movie and the food but did do some shopping at Fabindia instead. A couple of hours later we were having cold coffee in the Forum mall. Finally, clutching a well worn and torn map in our sweaty hands, we retraced our steps right back to where we had started. We kept asking directions from passers by and did not believe them when they had pointed us in the opposite direction to that which we were so confidently taking till then.
So I said - Uh oh, we are not going the right way. It is very lucky I have these bookish landmarks to recall. After enjoying the Sunday empty streets for about an hour, I thought - surely it is not this far away? - have we come to the wrong metro station ? Then I recognized the area around Jatin Das, near the Seagull book shop. We started walking in totally the wrong direction. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately ?) we had become completely disorientated whilst underground. So we took the fantastic metro to Rabindra Sadan (only a few stops away from Esplanade) and thought we knew the way. I do enjoy the singing.Īfter the service, we had the great idea to go for a ramble and wind up at the Forum mall to take in a movie and food. I like to visit churches, synagogues, temples, from the point of view of a secular person. I also offered up a prayer before we set out on our travels to Nagaland so soon afterwards. With trembling knees, having never been asked to do this since school in the sixties in England, I did my best. I was requested to read a lesson from the Bible. In fact, some of the faces in the congregation were familiar to us from other visits here.
He is a localite, though (then) about to shift house. Bishop Ashok Biswas needed 25 lakh rupees for the church repairs.Īlong with singing some hymns and meeting up with our friend John who plays the organ there, we had a very long conversation with Michael, a stalwart of the church. The service was held in the Church Hall in Sudder Street, since the St Thomas church was just then being renovated for the first time in fifty years. Next day being Easter Sunday we wanted to go to church.