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saphalamee yaatra

preamble: The title of the post (which means "this journey is successful") is from a malayalam poem - http://malayalam-kavithakal.blogspot.in/2011/05/saphalamee-yathra-by-n-n-kakkadu-with.html . I do not claim to understand the inner meanings of that poem, neither do I claim to mean this post in a philosophical sense about my life itself (though, well, at this point if my my life ceases, I could perhaps say that phrase) ... This post is just about "journeys" - places I have seen I am not counting a "stop-over" in an airport or "passing by in a train without getting down" as "seen". Driving thru in a car are counted - because invariably I would stop to see something or other In Kerala : Of the 14 districts, I think the only ones left are Kollam and Pathanamthitta. so 12/14 .. Have gone through these two districts also in train... In India : Out of the 29 states (delhi not counted), Kerala, TN, Karnataka, AP, Telengana, Goa, Mahar