SDAH NDLS Duronto: দৌঁড়ে চলো , দিল্লি চলো - PPG

S-2:
THE WESTERLY DEVIATION..
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It so happens that during more than 2 weekends every month, I find myself at Bengaluru with shashank Bhat** or he finds himself in Hosur with me. Well the point is we meet up quite often, on many such occasions also joined by Tejas**, depending on if the place we are heading to is a gourmet’s paradise or not....
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This is a narrative which is based on a short trip to the West coast from Bengaluru, short because it was only for about 36 Hours including travel. It was Friday morning when shashank spoke about some family event he was expected to attend along with his father and that he was leaving the next day to his paternal hometown somewhere at Kumbala near Mangalore. That’s when he joked if I would like to join, I took the joke seriously and my ticket was therefore booked along with them. There is every reason to worry on our trips if there has been no change of plan in every one hour, so far things were normal.
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The next evening was our scheduled departure from Yesvantpur in the YPR-CAN(Via MYS) Express for which I had to take the HSRA-YPR DEMU from Hosur to reach on time. Now this was a really tricky situation coz although it was a light day at work my boss wouldn’t give me permission to leave early only for one reason, like many other dubious bosses having disgraceful opinions on their employees conduct outside office, he too is our own version of a Hosur grown HARI SADU. That is when I approached a senior to help, that he did on one condition, he too wanted to join and then happened the booking of another tatkal ticket on Saturday afternoon for departure on the same night, same train, CKWL18.
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After a joyful Jump from office and reaching home leaping in liberty, few emotional moments awaited. As the sun set that day I still remember vividly, birdies were flying back home honoring the call of dusk, twilight was bearing a sad testimony to the brighter times the day witnessed, I lowered my gaze at my furry best friend Pinky-my house owner's Labrador to bid farewell with an extremely heavy heart. A bark followed pulling me out of the trance and snatching my sock, evidently I was just exaggerating my own emotions and making a total fool of myself, that pooch was never emotional anyway. I could only take back the sock after a long play after which I began to rush to the station and my old friend the TVS railway gate was down again, I was waiting at the other side waiting for my senior and there was absolutely no sign of his bike and obviously him too, riding it.We were determined to head to YPR station by bike in case the DEMU leaves as the gate was down in all probability for the very same train, I spotted the bike and the train almost simultaneously, luckily it was the late running KIK-SBC Passenger which meant we had about 10-15 minute buffer before this reaches Anekal Road owing to the Absolute Block territory.
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DEMU left HSRA late by 20 mins and reached YPR on time where our rendezvous point with shashank was as usual the 2 mts distance from the first handcuff button of the ticket checking staff's blazer on PF-1 Exit and we headed there to find Nobody..
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TO BE CONTINUED….