My readers must be wondering if I am on a long, strenuous, rambling trip in Germany because of the start-up hiccups in writing the travelogue of sorts in one go. The last one I wrote was on Nov. 2. Hence I owe an explanation. The reasons are many, but mainly those in our country who are elevated by our lay readers to the high pedestal of celebrity intellectuals. These people are too presumptuous and opinionated. Some like Prannoy Roy go about scouting for the world leaders, in their given field of activity, to extract opinions from their sacred lips that would jell with their own secular, leftist, minority pampering and pandering or outright anti-Modi stand. Right or wrong, get Modi and fix him. So, I had written in this column to pick holes in these bloated balloons and burst them. This done, now I am back to Munich Oktober Beer Festival where I had left you. The following day we decided on a city tour walking — City Squares, Churches, Museums, Down-Town Open Area Shops and Restaurants, Beer Halls, Beer Garden etc. At one Church, our German friend showed us a marked area (see pic. 1) saying that it was the foot-print of the devil and narrated an interesting, gullible story. While constructing the Church the patrons of the Church could not find enough money to complete it. Therefore, a deal was made with the devil who was ready to help on condition that the Church should be a celebration of darkness, there shall not be any light inside the Church when completed.
