journey back home

this holi when i packed my bags i never knew that this is going to be one hell of a ride. Very first, one and only thing i hate about India is its population. Guys have u ever seen a overloaded blue-line bus in Delhi... let me make up an image for u - inside is full n people are hanging out of the gate, everyone holding whtever he/she can. exactly same it was yesterday. well, eventually i made the first mistake by not making advance reservation ( generation 'Today is getting quite irresponsible - i can say being a part of it). but by the time i reached the platform, i came to know one divine fact - two days before holi if u r going to patna u cant differentiate between a reserved coach and one unreserved coach. Anyways who m i to get a v.i.p. treatment, i tried being a part of the mob and getting along with it, but i guess i was too sophisticated for that (actually i was nt strong enough to cut thru that mob n get on the train, i bet even HeMan cudn't).

so i bid my farewell to the train (before it was stopped for chain pulling " 5 times ").

(well, something like this can happen only in pakistan.)

next and the only option was to get on PURSHOTAM express (train 100km of-route of patna) i deboarded train at gaya n then took a bus to patna. the best part- i purchased ticket for this train in rs 1400 which was actually of rs 400 . i tell u, these festive seasons are the best time for black marketing of tickets .

this was the sufeering part of my journey, now i come to the best part. well i enjoying observing peoples behavior at different times. following are the train behaviors which i had observed earlier also but was confirmed with this time

• they all try to show how easily they got the ticket at the last moment.
• as soon as a poor guy asks about any rule of railways (mostly related to ticketing - cancelling or tatkal), everyone jumps with their experience n gyan ( gyan is what i call to superior level of knowledge being shown by someone )
• favorite time-pass topics in the train Politics and Spirituality . i swear they can talk non-stop over politics n spritualism. and there is no bloody chance that they will agree to one another on any point. there has to be two sides...sometimes i found even a third one which goes anti to both.
• now one golden key from my vault...95% of the times people on the same seat (berth) make the same team n agree with the game partner...n in each game there only one dominant striker from either teams. as i mentioned earlier about a third opinion- that's a single man army, and never dominates the game, it just adds up new dimensions.
• one final take....its never a fixed rule that game will start with spirituality or politics. but thru a game both will be disscussed.