Mahableshwar is a lovely hill station in the Western Ghats. Its proximity to Mumbai and Pune make it a paradise for honeymooners. A quick trip to Mahableshwar, a visit to the numerous points and lousy food which is a strain on the purse is our modern day majnu's and laila's idea of a honeymoon.
The guys walk around in a daze and their wives look like brides run away from the wedding hall with their mehendi laden hands and feet all attired in jeans and fancy tops coupled with the traditional 3 dozen bangles on each hand and a sindoor laden forehead.
En route to Arthur's seat I got tired of walking and sat near a point called tiger's point. Here you will find a spring of cold, refreshing water and every tourist guide who walked past me explained to his group that at night there are four legged animals who drink from the spring but during the day there are two legged ones drinking at the spring.I sort of got bored by the guides repeating the same same story and concentrated on the conversation between the koochikooing couples. A young couple stood at the spring with the husband trying to coax the hygiene- conscious wife to drink from the proffered glass of water. She daintily refused but condescended to wash her face with it. Another couple wanted to pose for a romantic photograph and with the wife giving a thousand instructions as to where the camera should be placed for the perfect picture the husband finally got it right and the photo was clicked.The wife was seated on a rock and after a plea of 'help me down honey' the husband valiantly carried her off the rock. There were couples who spoke every language that India boasts of. A middle aged couple arrived on the scene and the husband told the wife to drink water from the spring as it would give her extra energy to roar like tigress. He also explained that it was useless for him to drink it as it would not help him to be the boss in his house.
At this point I had to get back to the car and the pleasant sojourn into the minds of other fellow humans had to be stopped.
