Ride from Kolkata

Ride from Kolkata

THe ride from State of West Bengal began on a smooth note as i was approaching the Bihar Fort. Amritsar EXpress was the train i was glued to for the next 12 hours and there was a Bong family comprising Pa Ma and Da not raising in the first hour any brouhaha. It was only when one student of Burdwan returning to Panagarh was made to unseat by the Bong Head of Family i could sense the sense of uneasiness that had erupted.

THe lower seat i occupied was enough for this student travelling on a student pass to take a portion of that one as he was supposed to travel for just half an hour. Few hours later the solitary man supposed to get down at Jasiddih was told by Bong who was allotted the middle berth to go to the upper berth. He took it sportingly as he knew in the season of occupation (the US was first to occupy Afghanistan and Iraq and subsequently got portions of wall street occupied by its residents). Occupation on the upper berth was too much for the Jasiddih man- he claimed to be suffering from some heart ailment- and he came down heavily on the Bong clan.

THe Bong shifted his wave of protest against me for offering the Jassidih guy a seat and would have perhaps liked me to take a retreat. Such was the nature of interaction but nowhere offensive and hurting. Given my interactions over the years the Bong Clan was still miles and miles away from being difficult; sober to an extent and opening their wallet for jhalmuris now and then .

It was interaction with another one i came to know that for 2 paisa one full glass of tea could be availed in Howrah in 1951 and nowadays the same tea comes for Rs 5 and Rs 7.Having reached Bihar Fort and and having completed the spiritual quest, the strangest part of the episode was departure of train from P F 7 when i had read that it would depart from P F 4. Had it not been for the Sleeper Class Guys i would have missed the train and in effect the sanity.

All in all Those Occupied in Occupation Thunder have nothing to lose and are waiting for others to Surrender. It may be about Greed, Graft and Breed. And in the final length it would be about how the Ground Situation has been Read and no one has been left to bleed.