Life is a never ending journey...

Musafir hoon main yaaron Na ghar hai na tikaana Mujhe chalte jaana hai, bus chalte jaana…

Kishore Kumar's song brings this guy to mind. Meet Bheemeshwar Thulajapurkar who is determined to travel the length and breadth of India visiting places of pilgrimage.

Starting from Pandarapur in Maharashtra, the abode of God Panduranga, he was in Bangalore on his way to Madurai and Kanyakumari.

His bullock cart carries the image of Goddess Ambabhavani in the back and his family and belongings in the front. He has very little money but is optimisitic that he will manage with what people offer him on his way.

Amazing, isn't it, that there are still those few who dare to lead a life without care, without bothering where the road of life leads them?

And don't so many of us long to get away from it all - everyday hassles, the rat race, the stress? This seeing of strange places and meeting of strange faces must be a wonderful experience. Do we dare….

And indeed there will be time
To wonder, ``Do I dare?'' and, ``Do I dare?''
- T S Eliot

Text and photos by Levine Lawrence

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