Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Delhi's Deewali - A Nightmare Unleashed on Late Latifs :)

7.40 pm train departure time from sarai rohilla
5.00 roaming around rashtrapathi bhavan
5.30 pickup my luggage from the department of land reforms, nirman bhavan
5.30-6.15 Trying to stop almost 150 autos
6.15-6.30 Trying to call Easy Cabs and then walking upto india gate crossing.
6.30-6.45 Waiting for Easy Cab with negative reply
6.45 -7.00 Boarding a reluctant Auto of a sardarji who wanted to fill oil at Bangla Sahib
7.00-7.05 Discussing with a army commandant, the possibility of missing the train
7.05-7.10 Struck in the Traffic Jam and managing to move only till patel chowk
7.10-7.20 Leaving the Auto and Catching the Metro to Kashmiri Gate
7.22 - 7.30 Kashmiri Gate to Shastri Nagar (While discussing with 8 people the distance from Pratap nagar to Sarai Rohilla Railway station Vs Shasti Nagar to SR Station!!
7.30 - Alighting at Shastri Nagar and Turned out of the lift by the crowd
7.32 - Ran with the luggage two stories dropping the camera and mobile on the way and getting them back again. Warned by women passengers about riksha rates and Metro staff about this being the wrong place to get off for Sarai Rohilla
7.32-7.37 - Riksha from Shastri Nagar to Station (Jumping two traffic signal in front of the ever watchful delhi police)
7.38-7.40 - Hundred meter dash across three platforms with 25 kg luggage (on the head on the stairs)
7.40 - 7.45 - Onlookers see me gulping down three bottles of liquids and abusing delhi's traffic nuisance on fon.
7.50 pm - Train leaves
7.50 am - I wake up with sore legs in Udaipur!!!!!!

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