World at odds (WAO)

I went through the last post and kept on thinking for hours something from reality I can quote here. I do remember a few incidents but not sure they will make an interesting read as the last post from Garg saab.

The train incident invoked a scene in my eyes from long time back. I was in my first year of engineering and was going home for the first time after 15 grilling day of ragging. The last bus to Shimla use to come at 12:30 am. We reached the station somewhat at 11:30 pm. It was a normal bus stop as you can find anywhere in country. Some of those 24 hours tea shop and few people on the bench waiting and some poor fellows sleeping on the floor. Hmm,What else I am missing here is the stinking smell around and some drunken masters roaming.

We were 4 in number and had been told by our ragging seniors to be bold and fearful in town, else will be ragged by the town boys. The reason for that was we had that peculiar faces now with jangu cut hairs and all of us wearing baggy pants, anybody living in that town can figure it out we were the lambs.

It was the start of a night we all cannot forget, we were going back to home after 15 days in a new place, and most importantly today we all can roar. Shanky has his own way to roar, he gutted some black drink and he was now the king of his time. We all too had our fun bit, had a nice dinner at Sharma dhaaba and entered the bus station as we had conquered the last frontier.

The show begun, we entered and were at our noisy best. Someone among us end up breaking a glass and it just end up waking up everyone. A few guys sitting towards the end of the terminal, jestered us to come there. Chika pointed out must be senior, but I was adamant they do not roam in city that late to rag, get loose of your fear, must be some city gooonies. A tall looking guy asked us which branch, I said whats you business man. I think he felt offended, but who cares we were in the city and would not let these city boys rag us. I asked him any problem mate, we are out of Towner and what is the issue. Surprise surprise surprise, one of our second year senior come to this guy bowing them his head and went to bring one more glass of water. Bad luck as I suppose, but before anything would have happened, a bus comes into the station steaming in. He let us go with a promise to meet in college where the ruler was for sure.

I think our bad luck had just begun; it was the bus going to Chamba and not the bus we were looking for. In 15 min it left and was nervous that senior guys will call us again, to our luck they have boarded the bus to Chamba, that’s why they leaved us. Shanky was missing by now, someone had seen him boarding the bus, I was fully convinced he was on his way to Chamba, he was always weak in geography and left these small boarding bus issue to me. Above all he was little drunk too.

What next, someone told us the bus today is not coming, next bus will be coming at 3:00 am. So we were one man down and 4 hours to wait. We were not worried about shanky as we know he can pull this one out, he already has been on a wrong bus before. At 1:00 am a gang of boys entered and they were drunk like hell. For a moment seemed like Engg. Student going back to college from home, so must have come to board the bus.

One of them, as I come to know latter in my stay in town as Jimmy was singing a strange song “ kyounke saas bhi kabhi bhau thi?” Had not heard about this till date, but he was stuck on this line and was kicking every beggar or poor denizen sleeping on the platform. They were local boys and were drunk, and above all were too much annoying. I was already pissed and now they were making this saas act. I was sitting on a bench when Jimmy ended up kicking a sadhu on stomach and asked him to leave his platform. I do not know from an instinct, I just looked into Jimmy eye with anger, he got freeze frame. My friends too had frozen as they were smelling a panga and knew how hot headed I was during those days. Jimmy I do not know had the fear of his life in his eye and I kept on starring into his eyes. His friends took him away and I too was escorted away from that place. I still do not know, why we people do not end up punching each other, all ingredients were right. I was not knowing why I lost my cuil, but knew it has given the sadhu a chance to slip back to sleep.

Even today when Jimmy and I talk about this, he never forgets to apologies about the incidence and says my reaction was due to the divine intervention of god. He had ended up kicking a holy man that seems to be reason of reaction. I think it was due to the frustration creped in due to the incidents of the night. But it soon was going to be fine that night. Shanky was back in some bus, as he figured it out that after one hour no one trying to pull his leg so he must be going in wrong way. He too had known Jimmy from some old reference, we guys end up hugging each other and Jimmy too was sober by now. All of us keep on asking, what it means “ kyounki saas bhi kabhi bhau thi”.

Our bus come at 3:00 am and some gals from medical college were there in bus, it stuck gold when one of them end up my tution mate, we end up travelling back to shi, playing anatakshri and sleeping.

It is still mystery what it means “ kyonki saas bhi kabhi bhau thi?”

Labels: Ankoen dekhe, Fiction/flights of fantasy, Generic/vyom