Kolavery
is the buzz word these days and it means "Murderous feeling or blood lust""and it seems that even the rain god has been
infected by this. It has been raining quite heavily in Tamilnadu and in
Northern Indian states. Been pouring in Chennai from 24th Night till
now which is 40 hours and there are signs of more rains in the offing. Earlier
records of the amount of rainfall in Chennai during this month have been broken
and we are pretty sure that this year a new record would be set.
Due
to this incessant rain the roads are flooded and commuting within the city has
become a nightmare with potholed road jammed traffic. Larger vehicles such as government buses
and SUV’s cabs travel at high speed on the flooded roads sloshing dirty water
on the pedestrians and other vehicle leading to flaring of tempers and fights.
Yet I had
to travel to the Central station to drop my younger daughter going on a school
field trip to Amritsar, Punjab yesterday morning. Being early morning (5.15 am)
we did not encounter much traffic however the time taken was double the normal
travel time.
Because
of the prevailing conditions of the roads I decided to take the suburban train to my sister’s
place near Avadi, a suburb of Chennai. My first trip on a suburban train here
at Chennai and I was pleasantly surprised for the cost of ticket to Patabiraman
Military siding was just Rs 7.00 one way compared to call taxi charge of over
Rs 500.00 and also the time taken to reach the destination was just a quarter
of the time taken by road travel. Chennai suburban trains have dirty
compartments with stained wooden seats, jammed doors/windows and are not to the
standards of the compartments of Delhi & Kolkata metros yet a life saver of
many people who use this service on a daily basis since it is very cheap
compared to bus travel and time saving too. On my maiden travel most of the
persons traveling in the same compartment with me were engineering college
students and their conversation and their actions during the brief 40 minutes
travel transported me back in time of my days at college reminiscing those
carefree days.
During
my return journey it started raining quite heavily and the water was streaming
into the compartment through the open door and spraying the passengers sitting
in the first row just after the door. Some passengers tried closing the door
half way and since it was jammed the door did not budge at all and the
passengers sitting there were getting drenched. One of the passenger had a
brilliant idea and she opened up her umbrella within the compartment preventing
further drenching. All the passengers had their laugh during the gloomy
afternoon.
I like this comment really good write.......
ReplyDeleteThank you Gautam !!!!
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