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A trip to Karwar and Learning Aquaculture

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I left for Karwar on the night of 12th July 2015. I was expected to reach the next day around 9, but was unaware that during monsoon, the train timings change, by 8 am I had just crossed Kankavli, and still about 2 hrs to go. Denver had decided that he would be going into his family business of Aquaculture. And to continue in that field and grow in it. A few days prior to my trip, I had received a call from him, asking if I would join him for a few days in this venture. I had a few plans for my future, but that was only to be realized after I leave the country in November. He was eager for me to just join him for a few days and see how things there are run. As I had spare time, I agreed and my tickets were booked, I was to go there for just 4 days, to see and learn about fish farming. An Isolated Rabindranath Tagore Beach I touched Karwar station at 11am. Denver was already waiting for me. The journey from Karwar railway station to the city is quite far. The house I was to stay

Farewell Football God (A letter to a Bayern Friend Shattered by Basti's Departure)

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I know that it's heart breaking for you. Now that it's official, that Bastian is gone. I can also understand all the emotions attached to him, and how shattered you maybe at moment. So am I, although it's nothing as much as emotional as you may be at the moment .  Everyone in the Bayern community are shattered. Just like you and me. I mean Basti was the symbol of Bayern. Both him and Lahm, youth products of our beloved club. Around 18 years he spent here. The true breed of Bavarian blood, that he still is. I know we all wished that he'd stay. Retire here, at his boyhood club. But as you already know, that the world is not a wish granting factory na? In football club culture, players come and go. And I know this one is a big loss for us all.  But it's really something we gotta live with and move on. I mean let's look at it from a different perspective. Not from a fans eye, but a more logical one. 1. As long as I have been following Basti, I understand that