You can fool all the people some time and some people all the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time. Right, the same happened with me when I kicked off for IITR.
I had my reservation in HIMGIRI express which was scheduled to reach Roorkee at around 3.30 in the morning. I had the upper birth so I was fully enjoying the view at the Lower birth. J It was around 8.00 when train reached at Lucknow. A local vendor who was selling peanuts came to my compartment I asked him “भइया अभी रूर्की पचुच्ने मैं कीतना टाइम है? He replied "गाड़ी २ घंटे लेट चल रही है".
After hearing this I just fixed an alarm at 3.00, set my phone in vibrator mode and I sank in deep sleep. Alarm rang at 3.00 I woke up, I saw train was running at full swing I thought Roorkee will come around 5.30 as the train is running 2 hour late. I was doing all time management, calculation in the drowsiness. But gradually my consciences lost over the soporific lethargies of mine body and without letting my brain cells realize I was again drown in sopor.
I am racing with Asafa Powell ,the fastest creature on this planet and we are running at a speed faster then the earth’s revolution hence we have the control over the day and night . But all of a sudden a screaming sound just evaded my ear curtains and everything was stopped …Did I win or loose or is it a kind of aliens attack….. My eyes opened and I saw everything is stationary. Is it a dream or reality?
I realized train is not moving. I heard two people talking at the lower birth that the next station is Roorkee. I thought its high time Niteesh lets get up. I came down from upper birth and went near the gate… it was quite dark and foggy everywhere but I saw a torchlight coming. Meanwhile train started showing signs of motion. I saw a pillar on the platform engraved with word RK. Suddenly I saw all the nine planets in front of my eyes. The light that was coming dim previously was now totally ocular that it was originating from a torch carried by a man in late 70s. The train was already running at a decent speed. I screamed with my mouth opened in a complete circle, “बाबा यह कौन सा स्टेशन है ?? But perhaps my words dissolved before reaching his ear buds. Then again without wasting even a nano second I roared and believe me this time the pitch of my voice was so horrendous that even people standing at the KANYAKUMAARI beach would have heard me. Then a gargling voice came from that old man’s throat, हाँ बाबु जी यह रूर्की है.” The answer undermined my inner self in the same way as CHLORINE penetrates thru our nostrils. His answer flashed in my grey cells like a lightening in the deep dark clouds. I ran like hell, reached near my birth and with one hand pulled up my both bags, started running back towards the gate with full speed. The sound of my footsteps and pulling of bag awaken the person sleeping at lower birth. He thought there is a burglar trying to steal something. He started crying who is this? But I didn’t had the time to listen to his B.S. I ran like lion towards the gate. That man also woke up in hurry and started chasing me. I reached near the gate but I realized the train is already running at a good speed around 40-60 Kmph. But I had no option I had to do it. I threw my baggage outside and this was the moment I realized the speed of the train. I saw my baggage rolling in four to five complete circles before coming to rest. I was frighten but was saddled with no other choice. I took a full breath and was about to jump when I saw that man who was sleeping at lower birth is shouting over me, “Hey man you …Freeze.
It was the moment I just jumped from the door without even thinking about the speed of the train. As my feet kissed the earth I felt the fast and furious pseudo force and all laws of mechanics were failed in case of my motion. All of a sudden the static friction between my legs and earth changed into kinetic friction and I tasted the muddy earth with my face.
I was lying like a corpse for some moment. It took a moment to realize that my soul is still in me and here I am with my new face pack of mud.
I was lying like a dead snake before I transformed myself into mammoths from reptiles. I came out from the station and hired a rickshaw towards IITR…..(To be contineud...)
4 comments:
Nitish,your experience reminds me of the popular saying in Hindi"Ek taraf kuwan dusri taraf Khai".The situation in which you were struck is a horrifying one,and its your luck that you are safe.I would suggest that from next time onwards,its better to wait til next station rather than jumping from a running train.
I can understand your situation much better as i had encountered this twice in my coll days.
Both the time the station was Ghaziabad. First time I along with anubhav and ravi, jumped
from the moving train onthe tracks. Though we had a tough time as we jumped on the tracks.
And the Second time i jumped on the platform due to supreet's stupidity. And that carrying
our UNPACKED luggage in hands.
Anyways my my experience widely differ from yours, as you were going for an interview. Such incidents normally distracts persons confidence and faith on luck (as you were going for an interview). You might have started thinking that such thing happened before the commencement of the interview.
On the contrary, you might have enjoyed as it is an addition to the list of adventures in
your life :-)
And in last I must applaud you for the wonderful peice of desciption of incident you made.
Niteesh u have taken a brave step by trying to attend the interview which might have proved to be the last interview of all sorts.Then we would have probably said that "He was a very brilliant and hardworking guy who has given his life for studies" and we would have saluted your spirit and then we would have carried with our usual life.
Niteesh Chandra you should not have done this as Roorkee would always have been there but there might be one candidate missing for interview and there are no points for guessing his name.
Well tumhe ye sab kaam karne se pehle sochna chahiye ki kitne logo ki zindagi tumhare bharose chal rahi hai.Kitno logo ka uddhaar tumhe karna hai.
:)
Ok take care.
Looking for ur reply on this comment.
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