Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Leaving For Jubilee Bus Station To Reach Hyderabad Airport; Reaching Tirupati

Leaving For Jubilee Bus Station To Reach Hyderabad Airport; Reaching Tirupati


The day i am supposed to leave for Tirupati i leave the bed a little before 4.45 am. I head to A R Mess point to have two to three sets of black Tea. Later i visit Lord Ganesh Temple for a short duration and vacate the room. Hotel Swathi manager Mr Srinivas is helpful and so are Mr Anil Kumar and Mr Mukesh. I have two sets of idli before heading to airport. The ride from Secundarabad to Jubilee Bus Station (JBS) is in an auto mentored by automan Mr Vudtyavath Nanu.

The plush bus from JBS to Hyderabad Airport has Mr Kumar at the wheels. The bus leaves at 7.17, going past Boorugu Complex. There are spate of metro stations including Begumpet. Follow lane discipline is on the Display Board. There are spate of flyovers, going past Vaishnavi Arcade, Salwa multicuisine restaurant and Agra sweets Banjara. There is hoarding that went like this
Hyderabad Drive
Investment Plot 2020

There is an ad of Whistle blower Mr Shahbaz Ahmad Khan. Fight illegalities. Perhaps the time has come for more whistle blowers to come out in the open. Going past Junaid's tutorials. At 7.47 we are on the longest flyover which is P V Narasimha Rao flyover. P V Narasimha Rao was India's Prime Minister at one point of time much credited for ushering in economic reforms. He was one of the best Prime Minsters that India had. There is an ad of Ramco Supercrete. Going past South Indian shopping mall. The flyover gets over at 8.01 am. Going past Sree Vidya Model School. There is hoarding Own The Real Gold TMR.
We are in Airport at 8.22.

Footpath route from Srivari Mettu to Tirumala that is a shorter route which i am told

Meet Mr Kamal Saika from Assam. Mr A S Reddy  of CISF looks at the ticket. The server is down and there are long winding queues at different counters of Air India. That gives me a chance to meet Mr Venkateshawara Rao who has spent 25 years in Delhi and now settled in Hyderabad. I broach the subjects of Srisailam and Tirumala, having visited Srisailam and planning to visit Tirumala. I tell him i would be walking from Alipiri Gate to Tirumala.
Meet Mr Saifuddin with whom i discuss Bhindi Bazar in Mumbai. He shows me a HT (Hindustan Times) report according to which 550 families have shifted to two newly built towers in Bhindi Bazar. Mr Saifuddin is going to Coimbatore. Air India Flight AI 542 is delayed. Captain Ms Sapna Patel is at the helm and that is the best part of the journey, safe and secured in the hands of a woman. One crew member who is a woman is from Manipur. I am seated next to Ms Aaradhya who is in class 2 and Ms Charvi who is in Standard 7. Settled in Hyderabad they go by share auto to school. Meet Mr Prasad settled in Tirupati. Mr Prasad discloses that now there is a shorter footpath route from Srivari Mettu to Tirumala which roughly takes one hour. That route would come handy for old people who wish to climb to Tirumala Hills by foot. And it would be equally handy for those who would turn old in the decades to come.

The flight takes off at 1.15 and lands in Tirupati which actually is in Renigunta at 2.01 pm. We are thankful to the people concerned who have made arrangement for buses to ply between Tirupati Airport to Tirupati as well as Tirumala. The bus leaves airport at 2.35, going past Renigunta railway station and reaches Tirupati at 3.05. I deboard here. The man at the wheels is Mr Anand and he is honest and very helpful. I  check in Charan Residency where proprietor Mr V Venkatesh is at the desk. He is thrilled to have me as his guest. The cyber cafe from where i do story is opposite Hotel Vikram and it comes handy with the staff very helpful. Around 7 pm i have my dinner from Hotel Vikram where Ms Naveena, Mr Subramaniam, Mr Karunakaran and Mr Prabhakaran took extra care to see i was comfortable. The food on the table is something to cherish. All my thoughts are on walking from Alipiri Gate to Tirumala on foot on a Tuesday.

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