A Sudden Urge to Take a Sleepless Walk to PSR!

Last night I didn't sleep at all. It is indeed because of my messed up schedule and good for nothing life style. I was doing all kinds of activities till the phone screen highlighted thirty past five in the morning. It is then I got this sudden urge to go for a walk. I mean, why not? I haven't seen a sunrise in like months. Maybe this walk can put an end to that longing. So yeah, I acted up on that impulsive thought and impulsive decisions have seldom failed me.

Although it was a tiresome job to neglect the need for sleep and walk 2 Kilometers each side, We did it anyway. "We" as in me and my partner, starts with this sleepless morning walk to PSR. Here let me give some short trivia about PSR. PSR as in Parthasarathy Rocks, named after the first Vice-Chancellor of JNU, is part of the Aravalli Hills, and is said to be a pre-historic rock formation. Isn't all the rocks pre-historic in it's formation? Just a thought! A contested claim that the rocks is the highest point in Delhi is also there. But there is no contestation whatsoever that Parthasarathy Rocks is the highest natural point in JNU Campus.

We reached the PSR at 6:00 am and the reddish violet sky looked immaculate that we immediately realised that was worth the effort we took. But even when the sky appears brighter and brighter every passing second, the sun is nowhere to be seen. The sunrise was told to be at 6:23 by the Google alerts. 6:23....6:24....6:25 we grew desperate with each passing minute and at 6:26 we saw a bright red ray out there in the horizon moving up every second. It was serene! While the Spotify played "Aval" from Kakshi Amminipilla in the background, we sat there, looking at the all-encompassing panorama of the life and the lifeless.

Apparently JNU is the home for numerous species of avian comrades. The real spectacle early in the morning is to see their flights, numero uno and in groups, making aerodynamic patterns, the swishing and swirling in the crimson sky canvas. Unlike humans and animals closely associated with humans, the almost three hundred species of birds in JNU don't seem to be having much territorial disputes. I wished i could recognize the birds with it's vibrant calls, but apart from some apparent bird calls, I'm oblivious here. eBird is a good site to explore birds, I promised myself I'll make use of this possibility on my next visit. 

We walked back from the PSR when the sun was fully bright and unable to look at. Alas! the return walk was totally crazy with the immaculate Bougainville flower beds stretched across the campus. What a time to be in JNU and in Delhi!