THIS BLOG WAS WRITTEN BETWEEN 17 October and 18 October 2020
Irrespective of the date when the map was made and the blogged, It has been published backdated, to maintain historical sequence.
These backdated blogs are written as much to record our travels and places seen all those years in the past, as they are to present a photographic record of the growth of Ajeet and Anuj through those early years.
Khasi Village.
This is a screenshot of the map showing Shillong Air Force Station area. This Screenshot is just to give you an overall picture of the relative positions of Shillong Viewpoint, Khasi village and SP 110/4, our home. Normal functions of maps are not available in this map. Those are available in an interactive map.
For an interactive map go here.
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Sp 110/4. Home.
We stayed in SP 110/4 at the Peak for more than one year. Weather was cold. In winters temperatures used to drop to 2 to 4 degrees. During met briefings at Command, we were told "grass temperature" as well, it used to be minus 3-4 degrees C.
These, of course, were minimum temperatures at night. A time when we were cosily tucked in the bed, in rooms warmed by fireplaces.
Day temperatures were 16 degrees plus. So it was quite OK. It was only when day temperatures dropped to 10 or lower that we felt discomfort due to cold.
Even on such days, as long as there was Sunshine it was quite pleasant in the sun.
There was no TV. There were no smartphones. Those were the days there was a lot of interaction between family members.
Invariably on the sunny weekends and holidays all of us used to get out of the house and go to either Shillong view Point, Liatkor Peak or go around the Khasi village which was further down and reached by a footpath which was a kacchha extension of our airforce black top..
Those were wonderful times spent in open fresh air by the whole family together. Term "quality time" with family or children was not coined. Today I proudly say that YES, we did spend plenty of "quality time".
In March 2020 we visited our old house at 110/4 this Jayati and Leela.
There was no question of visiting Kahsi Village during our visit 2020 due to the high-security wall which had come up between the AF quarters and the civil settlement beyond the wall. To see the google map of our trip done in March 2020, GO HERE
Khasi Village.
Most of the houses of the village were huts. With mud walls and thatched roofs. Sohe houses had typical tiles.
There were lots of empty places between the houses. During our excursions to the village, we hardly saw any of the locals. Most probably they were at work either in farms or in town. were he village was made up huts.
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