the climax--season finale

the first three parts of the trip: the tour to Kharagpur and puri , my first day at iit kgp , the last two days at iit kgp

here goes my last part of this series:

After the forgettable iit kgp trip, we had planned to go to Puri via bhubaneshwar after a halt at my cousin's place there. we being new to the place decided to go along wid a group of 4-5 students going there.before that, we had to wait for arnd 2 hrs and miss 2 trains to get our travel fare reimbursed(A part of it was reimbursed...) and even before that we had to walk up to atleast 5kms to get the ticket photostated,the top engineering college boasts of only 2 xerox machines..and dat also in the "tech" market(outdated technology..) which remains closed from 2 to 5 during daytime(Left ka raaj hai...)... only later did i get to know in the evening that there were 3 more machines in the campus and surprisingly, the students we asked did not have any knowledge of that(kaise engg karenge...!!)...

So those 5 guys were with us .Now only one of them possessed the money for tickets and ironically the others had an altercation with him and hence idiotically left him at the college.Finally travelling in second class with a general ticket,some arguments with the TTE and getting down before the destined station was all a new experience at a place where we failed to understand oriya and the locals failed to understand us...finally with some difficulties we were at my cousin's place...

It had already been 5 days since sumit took a bath though the figure was 3 for me...so i had already planned to spend a comfortable time in bathroom...but that guy..he is just too aalsi..even my bro is nothing in front of him...and this all when he is not a hosteler...kya hota tab to..neways he still preferred only to wash his face...aadha devdas to ban chuka tha..with big beard on his face...so had a gud brkfast after 3 days..i got my tummy flat just within 3 days..itni mehnat ki thi banane me kambakht...they can easily make VLCC a run for their money. Now my cousin arranged for us a visit to a very famous temple there...it was some 400-500 yrs old and constructed without the use of any cement..the stones were somehow fixed with iron rods..another story of marvellous indian artists and architecture...there were 108 small temples within that big temple and where "pandas" catch hold of u as soon as u enter the temple..on the pretext of darshan and puja with a "nominal" charge...I am quite a religious guy but still not dat desperate to have a look at the idol from 20 cms...even 100 cms is a fine distance for me to get an aashirvad from god.I was told since my childhood that they have a very long range!!...par sumit..he is a big athiest...even bigger than my bro..i used to think ki wahi bahut bada nashtik hai...i dont think sumit even paid obesience there..wonder he wud say one day.."aaj khush to bahut hoge tum??" though hopefully for other reasons...

For all such big atheists Puri is one of the four religious places called "char dhaam"...it is famous for its beaches and the historic Jagannath puri temple(though only later did i get to know that it was just another name for Lord Krishna when mom told me abt it on returning back home..usse pehle i thot ki may be some other Indian God).

so we boarded the bus to puri in the afternoon and it took us around 2 hrs to reach there...the tiredness of past 2 days was so much that it was difficult to even open our eyes..the 2 hr trip was some solace...we booked a room on reaching there and straightaway headed towards the beach..the crowd was already enjoying the high waves of the sea..it was my second time at the beach and sumit's first...so he was a bit scared to go inside the water.After walking at the beach for some time, then a photo shoot, we moved to have a clash with the waves..though with our backs to it...after some time it appeared as though we were being pulled towards by the sea.i was told that the sea also had a liking for jewellery and other similar items..no matter hw tight they are to your body,the sea will snatch it from you.. and so my mom did not spare even the very tight rings i was wearing...i had to force sumit into water..he was quite scared and did not want to brk his fast of not bathing...it was a big fun there..it compensated for the kgp disaster..though the saddest part was that i had to be wid a guy...a trip to beach wid a gal wud be the most fascinating one,i think...

So after an hour at the sea and half an hour at the hotel bathroom, we moved for the famous Jagannath temple...again it was an example of marvellous architecture though a big victim of human vandalism...the lifestory of Lord Krishna inscribed on the walls of the temple was highly fascinating...just did not get to know when the planned half an hour got converted into more than hour under the mesmerising effect in the temple...just did not want to leave that place...something was holding me back..poor sumit..he had to bear wid me...As a result we got delayed for our train and had to rush thru our dinner...and just managed to reach the station in time....

finally we were on the train to be back at home..sweet home.. after a week..the 36 hrs at train were also full of fun..did not feel bore at any instant with a 4-5 aged kid with us...he seemed to be big flirt..managed to get along with 2-3 girls of his age in the same compartment in no time...sumit again was pretty lethargic here also...kitna bada aalsi hai...so now am back home just recalling the whole story again and again to my friends and family members and they just dont stop making a fun out of it...