For the old readers' information, lemme mention that now I am in one of the most remote parts of the nation, Guwahati, Assam. Not that I have any complains. Things are keeping me on my toes; so that I rarely get any time to miss anything! ...rarely indeed, except for occasions when some of my students mention about a dinner at a dhaba! How can I deny it :)
To cut the long story short, there was nothing exciting or new about the dhaba or the food or the water...even the ThumsUp was tasting exactly the same! But the difference was the way we went there. I would say it is the most adventurous thing I have done till now, after the roller coaster ride in Orlando. Semi-road from our institute gate till the national highway (NH). This path was covered in pitch darkness, which we could cover cutesy Sahus's cell-light (ultimately courtesy LEDs!). Just imagine 7 guys on bicycle, riding by the light of an LED (magic of silicon devices :p)!
Next came NH. NH's in India dont have any bicycle path! Hence you have to ride beside the main road. Dark as hell, and huge trucks coming from both sides. A truck from front is so scary. It will blind you with its bright light for few seconds, and you will realise what real blindness is once its gone. Its like left on the road to ride a bike, with your eyes blind-folded. (Try doing it to get me!) And to add to it all, if you miss the "beside" of the NH by a few inches, you might fall into one of the ponds which keep on repeating themselves on both sides of the NH! With all this, by the time we reaannalched the dhaba, I would have drained at least few pints of adrenalin and my heart beat was touching 200 per minute :p
All said and done, the outing was definitely a memorable experience, which will definitely go in the annals of the IITs! Lastly let me thank my student friends: Circuit, Sahus, Mohit (seen in the snap from left to right), Puns, Neta and Anda!!
