Reflections Of Life

Rajahmundry Train journey…

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

The travel from ISB to the Secunderabad railway station took a good 1.5 hours, thanks to all the traffic in Hyderabad city… reminded me of the journey every day via Hosur Road from Infosys to Koramangala when I used to work in Bangalore! As I had written earlier, I am sure I am going to hate traveling in any lil traffic from next april as staying in ISB has made me forget the worst of all traffics I have handled every day in Bangalore.

For the first time, I traveled in AC 3 tier in the train… The memorable train journeys used to happen every 6 months when I used to travel from Delhi to Chennai for 1.5 days when I was studying in BITS… the ironical part is that the travel from Delhi to Pilani for 6 hours was more tiresome than the 36 hour journey from Chennai to Delhi!! But I heard that the roads are much better now and the travel isn’t much of a hassle as it used to be!

Traveling with me were a couple in their late 20s, a guy doing his MBA in the US and coming down to get married and two businessmen… I have never spoken so long to strangers at any time! I guess we discussed everything from MBA courses - investor behavior – world politics - rules for today’s generation – higher studies – job market in US and India! We were people in around four age groups and the discussion did show the thought differences among different age groups – though it was a good talk for a train journey! And importantly, I did impress them all with my Telugu… for at least half an hour they couldn’t guess I am not from AP!!!

In the wee hours of Sunday, I reached Rajahmundry and I took an auto to the bride’s place (I had specifically requested not to send anyone to pick me from the railway station)… None in the family except for my cousin and his parents had seen her before this… so I was the first person other than the first family to see her… Had the privilege of waking Padma for the long and eventful day of her life!

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