Returning back to Delhi!

Apr 13, 2016


'Why should you care? Why should a Muslim care about our things anyway?' our driver shouted at us, when we asked about the famous Hindu temple in Kashmir. We were shocked and surprised.


'We are not Muslim, we are Hindu' we told, despite having long beard with us.
He looked at us with skeptical eye, and asked rudely 'Why did you come to Sri Nagar then?'
We didn't answer because we had already been cheated by the previous driver. He was scolding previous driver saying, 'He is hero in Kashmir, Jammu is mine!'. I then noted, that Jammu was place for Hindus, Srinagar for Muslims and Leh for Buddhists. I also understood the reason why Jammu and Kashmir has 'And' in between.


Midnight Trouble
Almost at 12 the driver further troubled us saying, he would charge extra money to drop us till railway station. We had no option but to agree, as there were no local buses that would drop us at railway station at that time. Now, once we were there, we then knew that next train to Delhi was at 5 am, and then at 9 am. We had to book tickets for earliest one, to be at Delhi as quick as we could. That was troublesome! We stayed in the queue of counter being at first from 3 am itself.


Almost missed train!
The counter opened at 5.20 and not in the line that we had been waiting, but the window at corner. Everyone rushed there, and I was almost at last. Kapil and Rusen managed to get somewhere in middle, but again, they couldn't make it due to crowd. It was already 5.45, and we didn't had our tickets. We told others three to be in train with luggage, and Gaurav to come back showing in which berth they were. But it was 5.55 and we still didn't had tickets. I rushed into the crowd, and pushed everyone and got into window. By 5.58 we had tickets in our hand!
We then ran as quick as we could. Those who were on the train with luggage started throwing them from slowly moving train. Once they saw us running, they again threw the luggage inside. Before train took the speed, we got into nearest door. We were into two different boxes of train. No phone! We were not sure even if our every luggage were in the train.
After train stopped at first stop! We made it all together!


Travelling through General!
You don't know who comes inside, you have to stay alert about your luggage, anyone may take it. We were traveling to Delhi after all. Sweats of people were smelling badly. We didn't feel like eating anything, except our own Bhujiya Chiura, because the entire place was dusty, and people seemed to be dirty. We only took tea there.
Finally at 6, we reached Delhi!



















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