Mountain of light

Mountain of Light

Starting a new blog is something that doesn't come naturally to me. I already have a blog, and all I need to do is write in it and go back and see it when I want to and people can come and comment on it if they want to. So then why am I starting this new blog ? One, my old blog Mind of an Unmarried Man became a blog non grata the day I got married and second, it wouldn't accept my posts for some reason. Yes the mind doesn't really change with marriage (or atleast it hasn't in my case) but then try telling that to your wife who after marrying the man behind the blog sets about rooting all unmarriedness out of his now married existence.

Ok so I decided to start a new blog. The blog needs a name and for the life in me I couldn't come up with a name to suit my blog which is in a way an extension of my personality, it is me in the virtual world. Yes you could argue that Mind of an Unmarried Man wasn't much of a name but then lets decide to let sleeping blogs lie shall we ? So coming back to the name bit, it was decided by that I will run fingers through all the books on my bookshelf and feel the energy (aura, vibes and what have you) of each book and I would know for sure which book will be the title of my blog. Out came this book with the title "Mountain of Light" by George MAcDonald Fraser.

I can do no better than to quote from the backpage of the book " With the Mighty Sikh Khalsa, the finest Army ever seen in Asia, poised to invade India and sweep Briannia's Ill -guarded empire into the sea, every able-bodied man was needed to defend the frontier - and one man atleast had his answer ready when the call of duty came: "I'll swim in blood first!" Alas though for poor Flashy (Flashman), there was no avoiding the terrors of secret service in the debauched and intrigue-ridden Court of the Punjab, the attentions of its beautiful nyphomaniac maharani (Not that he minded that, really). The horrors of its torture chambers or the baleful influence of the Mountain of Light"
Flashman is a fictious British character who manages to be in all the important world events of early to middle 19th century. The events and the character that are talked about are mostly real. In this particular book, he is in the middle of a crumbling Sikh empire as a British spy and the Maharani takes a fancy with him and he is only too happy to roger her with the Kohinoor, which at that time was in posession of the Sikhs, dangling at her waist. The Mountain of Light is a reference to the Kohinoor.

The title is indeed a little stange and I think it will take some getting used to. I don't this blog of mine will ever be a Mountain of Light showing poor, lost souls the right of way to wherever it is that they want to go. However, this blog could probably show me some light as I look to understand issues, events and happenings that matter to me and for which I want to write about. This is a new beginning and I have sorely missed writing. I want to write in as frequently as I used to because writing gives me clarity like no other form of expression.

To brighter and clearer times ahead.