begning of weantring

Evening walk in maitri

beginning of the wintering

With the sail of megedelena oldedroff from Indian ice self to Cape Town on 17th march 2002 our wintering begins, now we are alone approx one year here. The feeling of loneliness comes after the all members shifted to the ship in past week as well as departures of convey from maitri.
Only happiness increases our hard duty allowances. Now we are aware the maitri, its surrounding, station, its maintains, life inside the maitri. Understand the personal work, professional work and the community involvement for survival in such harsh & hostile environment.
Now the coming days the day become shorter and night become longer. The temp drops minus 10 oc; we have seen the snow drifting as well as the blizzards in the past week, now the coming wintering will be full of blizzards & darkness. Now I follow a regular routine of reading, listing music, playing tt, doing exercise, watching movies as well as handle the computer. Letter writing stops with the dr Jain shifted to the ship, now it replaced by the dairy writing & mails. A routine of writing the mail become the essential part of the life. The first mail from my friend dr sanjay batra boosts me to regular writing.
I take out a large no books on Antarctica, literature, philosophy, history, novels & poetry from the maitri library. as well as the different music from-recent, gazals, folk & instrumental.
Lunge become the main interaction with the people from beginning of the day with morning meeting for the annocement of the recent advance from the India & Antarctica, as well as planning of the day today activity in the maitri. Later on lunch & evening tea, later on gossip in the day. Evening wait egerly for the coming mail from friends&home. For maintaining our physical strength regular evening walks & waits exercise. Our young team have full of enthosiym & courage for the coming winter. We are different from the past larger no of people from the 25 to 35 as well as the bachelors. Most of them free from the family tensions.

a larger work arrange the essential food items in the container out side the maitri at containers complex, the work begins after the morning meeting, during the beginning leader always call me & bhupendera. Now we have to do all community work as the hard laborer so we make our association ALU ( Antarctic labor union).these work essential for the station maintenance, we can denied.

The first day of the wintering:- the day begins of wintering was Sunday , I awaked with the ring of my table watch, go to toilet & fresh come back in to my room read the book a voyage through the Antarctica- written by the Richard Adams the continuity of past day. When I reached in the lounge the morning meetings have been finished. Later on I came to the Rajendera room, his non availability in the room come back in my room finished the book & go sleep for relaxing.

Second day- today is very dull day, awaked at 8am attended the morning meeting & come back in to my room. Think about to write, my view about the philosophy of life. So in this way begins of my book life. I write-down about one page bhupendera calls me for vist the container complex for withdrawn some food items from container. When I come back in noon & till night I feel tired & energy less. In the evening on hf communication with my father know about he communicate with DOD, well being of dev, write down mail dev & arvind. Later on I begin to read book Wild ice- Antarctic journeys. In late night 12am convoy return back.