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Continuing the story as promised for the first time . Dedicated to Pappu.

Prashix Entertainments present,

Special thanks to Dundi Jn and Ashish Pappu

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE HYDERABAD. [A tale of four unlucky youth tring to reach their sweet homes]

Starring,

Prashix, Venkat. Pramod and TT.

Story,

decided by FATE

Producer,

Indian Railways

Directed by,

Destiny .

So, back then, when we reached the station we found out that all trains were redirected to Dundi Jn. and no train is coming to Pune from Mumbai. Because of the heavy pouring on the saturday and sunday, some rail tracks went missing in the floods. Our train to Hyderabad has to come from Mumbai. Several thoughts just flew into my mind, bus, train, flight or stay back in Pune and then travel some other fine day.

Anyway, luck [is it ?] appeared in front of us in the form of station-master, he guided us saying that, a train is about to leave for Dundi in 10 min, take it and you can catch your train at Dundi. Awesome, we thought and looked for the fourth person, [TT, Pramod, venkat and me], Mr. Venkat, he has to arrive yet. We ran all the way to that flatform like mad dogs, we waited and waited, yet the fourth didn’t arrive. Train was about to leave, some friends came by to say bye-bye. We helped some other losers to get in to this train, explaining them why they need to do that.

Finally, just before departure Mr. Venkat has reached the station with a pale-face, questioning, what the hell is happening here. It took us around 15 minutes to explain my dearest friend about our luck. He was all excited, mentioning the fact that he has never had any adventurous trip in his life. I don’t know how he guessed that it was going to be adventurous. Anyway, after stopping 3 times before reaching Dundi, it took us around 2 hrs to reach there.We made some jokes and tried to catch up with everyones life and whats our future and all .

Dundi, its a small village. We expected our train to come in two or three hours, but surprisingly the station master there suggested its going to come in 6 hrs.  So, that would be around 2AM in the morning. We thought it would fun to stay over here and we started to roam in pairs, the entire station. We scanned the station completely for chicks and moongfali [groundnuts]. Trust me, it didnt take much time for us to find groundnuts and for chicks, dont even ask !!.

Then when pramod and venkat patrolled the station they found that they have some more friends who are also stuck the same way… [losers !!] for the same train. I have started reading FRIDA, which TT gave me after begging for a while. Its a disgusting book which made no sense or what ever. [May be this review is biased with my frustration about our luck], he talks about this crappy forest, bridge blah blah .. They both brought us some food. Venkat has not changed a single bit and his love for chicken is still has the same intensity. He brought some chicken, I forgot what kind, but it was tasty.

Then me and Tejaswi went to get some ciggies. It was around 10PM and the whole village was literally closed. We went like 2kms all the way and found a bar where they dont sell ciggies [What kind of a loser bar doesnt sell ciggies !!! seriously!]. After some searching, we found a small Pawn [kiosk] shop where we finally found some ciggies. TTs face glowed with a feeling of achievement. What a loser !! . Then we went back just to hear aweful thing that the train is delayed indefinitely. No one has no information about the train.

After losing a lot of patience and after completely worn out I retired for bed, ohh sorry, there was no bed, I retired on the station floor, covered it with papers. 40 pages on FRIDA was completed, then I shifted to the GOD FATHER and then I felt bored of it and started reading a magazine. I informed about this awesome trip to my bro-in-law and to my parents. After sleeping for a while, Venkat woke me up for my turn for watching the luggage. Suddenly there was one train in front of us, which was leaving for Banglore. Many thoughts were discussed among us, for figuring out the right direction of this train to board it. But, we neglected the thought since, we have to again sleep on the train floor and we exactly dont know whether its going to goto hyd or not.

In the morning around 6 AM they have announced that the train is going to arrive at 8 AM. All the frustrations and anger on Railways suddenly, disappeared. Since, it was a small village it was tough for us to find a place for us to perform our natural activities in the morning. I have to stand in a queue literally for an hour and half [the longest waiting time in  my life, felt like 6 hrs]. Once we are done, we refreshed ourselves and had some coffee and all. Anyway, the train has arrived at 10 AM, another round of irritations and swearings at railways has taken place before its awesome arrival [ for 2 more hrs of waiting]. 

So the total waiting time at that station was 16 hrs. After reaching outskirts of the Hyderabad we came to know that a Goods train was derailed on the way out of Hyderabad. Awesome luck !! I thought, Can it get any better !!. Pramod and Venkat got down at that station and they took a bus to home. Me and Tejaswi talked about his achivements in Israel [The genuinity of what he said is still debatable]. Then at a whim I decided to get down at Secunderbad station and take a bus to my home town.

At around 9-30 PM, I got down and bid my farewel to TT and conveyed him my regards for his MS and other endeavours to come ahead. I took a local bus to reach the Jubilee bus station. It took around 30 min. I bought myself some stuff to eat and drink and reserved my seat for Mancherial. Looking at that ticket made me feel like a kid who just opened his christmas gift. After 6 hrs of awesome night bus journey and 15 minutes of walking, finally I reached my sweet home. The most comforting moment. My parents were happy to see me and their sympathetic and sarcastic [mixed] looks made me realise that we always have to hear to what elders say. [They suggested me not to go with this plans since the weather conditions are not fine].

TT has waited for 3 more hrs in Hyd station and then travelled for another 14 hrs on the same train to reach his home town. After a month he went to US and now has successfully completed his first term at STAN. He recently has a trip to LA.

Venkat as usually continued his love for chicken and his lady love. Has partied in B’lore for the new years. And this trip is still a confidential matter at his home. Its still a secret

Pramod went back to home and he had a nice christmas 08 and he was looking forward to get married this year.

Yours truely, has flied back to Cyprus and then to Canada for a three month trip. He never went to Tirupati that year. He is presently in Cyprus, living the same bored life.