Thanks for this wonderful comment. Having a great time in a place I lived at for more than 12 years of my life. Since I worked here as well and travelled around the country by car 15 years ago, I am familiar with a little. Not as much as anyone native like yourself.
I always think that i might be the creepy protagonist in a horror story that might sneak up to you in the jungle because I love lurking in the dark. The only thing is that I don0t really have malevolent intentions. LOL creepy laugh Just a harmless vegan dude. Might be a guy masking himself beneath a few tree branches 3 meters above. I remember scaring kids that would come and drink at archeological sights in the middle of the night, making strange noises because I would hide my spray paint there. Always thought about it as if anyone should probably be scared of me, because there wasn't anything more harmlessly sinister.
When one leaves big cities, there are a lot of places that are calm and with fewer people around. Really like Pollachi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh for that matter. As soon as it gets green, like in many places in Maharashtra also one really feels the potential for a more lush environment in India. I just picture all the damms in the north and the lack of irrigation and self maintenance of water tables for bio-dynamic cycles that keep moisture within the first layers of vegetation. We often forget the variables that constitute to healthy biodiversity within a habitat.
You had a good time of your life in India. it is like your second home then. I am living in a place which is just 30 min behind IST, Pakistan, the neighboring country :)
I love horror movies, the more it gives me chills, the more I am liking it. hahaha you may have seen something like that in real, you have made a good scene of a horror movie out there. It would be great if you write a blog on paranormal activities :P just kidding!
I think people from big cities cannot live and spend more than a week in such a quiet place as we get used to that noisy, polluted atmosphere and cannot live without it. Can visit as a picnic or a wekk trip plan only, taking pictures and rushing to come back home. You are on a project hhmmmm Good Luck then :)