A Sunday escapade to Karighatta
January 18, 2021
Being cocooned for over eight months at home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt like breaking out from the cocoon and walk around like a free man.
Going to office is one easy alternative for me. Thank God I have a working place of my own for this kind of distraction and freedom. Imagine those seniors like me without such advantage. Public road, public park or dear and near ones are some places they can escape to and enjoy the freedom. Let it be.
Yesterday was a Sunday and we as a family decided on an outing, a sort of picnic we have been having since three months. Home-makers got ready with a mat, a dhari, folding chairs and, of course, packed eatables. And we set off to Karighatta, 23 kilometres from city on Srirangapatna Road, past Baburayanakoppal on Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway. It is a hillock with a Sri Srinivasa Temple of hoary past without Gopura, which is commonly seen in all Srinivasa (Venkataramana) Temples. But it has