Travelling to Goa-Delhi and across six states, viz. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh is quite something you have to fathom while travelling in a Sleeper Class train bogey.
Along the journey late that evening, peeping outside the window, I came across a major fire wolfing its fiery teeth across the greens which was a sorry sight. I quickly pulled out my digicam from my pouch and took a click - the first of many on the trip.
Denudation of a lovely landscape - nature's wrath or a moron's moment of madness ?
Patience and Tolerance of the samples you encounter is one thing, and the distance is another.More on the latter, a a tad later. Here, I would like to relate about the kinna harrowing experience I had with an eunuch who was moving with another collecting money. When I realized these types were making their way to our compartment, I turned facing the window where I was seated, but the eunuch with the plunging neck-line turned his/her attention towards me. Like I cared what s/he wore or how titillating s/he may look (if eunuchs ever looked so), s/he was like give me a tenner or I will throw your specs out of the window, and then adds, 'mujhse pyaar ki nazar se dekh rahe ho ....' I did not argue as is my wont, and knowing that the situation was hopeless gave the uncouth cross person with whom I was cross with a fiver.
That unsavoury incident aside, the approach to the Capital City was both telling and unbearable as you are soon to encounter a fiery blast of the sun rays as your train chugs through the tunnels and across the countryside as it nears Delhi.
