I had bought “Sophie’s World” – A novel about the history of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder few months back and though it is absolutely unlike me to read (an interesting book) in intervals , somehow couldn’t find time to finish it. I started reading through as an when I got opportunity/time.(I have real bad habit of finishing a good book even if it means reading till wee hours of morning on a work day). I found this book extremely interesting but still somehow couldn’t read through more than couple of chapters at one go.
So here I am in Paris for 1 month for work. I have brought this book with me and intend to finish it in this trip.
Yesterday I planned a trip to “Château of Versailles” and packed my ipod and picked up the book as I was leaving the door. I had originally planned to be there at 9 am so as to not to wait in queue for entrance (had booked ticket online too), but it wasn’t till 11 am that I reached there. Almost had a heart attack looking at the long winding queues. There were hundreds of people waiting in the queue (and that was after buying tickets). No exaggeration , check out the pics for yourself………….
Anyways back to the topic – Coincidences! So waiting in the line, I remember the book I had packed ( I also want to mention that I really found it strange that by the time I have reached Renaissance period in the book, I was visiting Rome and Paris!) So I take out the book and continue reading……….. and the page mentions about “Château of Versailles” and Louis XIV (page no 211 and 212). I really couldn’t explain that – I wait for forever to buy a book I always wanted to read, then I take forever to finish it off and am reading the author mention about the same place I am standing at (5000 miles away from home). Can’t explain it …………………………………
Second coincidence – I am headed back to my hotel – as I enter the hotel my ipod is playing one of my fav songs – ‘hai preet jahan ki reet jahan…………..” (a b’ful song praising the contributions of India and abt what a great country it is ..). The friendly receptionist Jacob is on duty so he asks me how my day was and what I did, etc . Then as I am about to enter the lift he calls me and tells me that previous night he watched a program on BBC on India and that he thinks that India is a great country………… I just stared at him as if spellbound as the song played on my ipod…………………………
Reflections 
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