There were most awaited & exciting days ahead !! I had got selected in Cognizant, one of the giant company. After lots of job struggle & passing painful days finally it arrived. The joining location was in Kolkata & date was 20th May 2011, so I had to leave Pune & travel there. But it was not big deal for me.
I left the home on 17th itself & came to pune as it was 2 days journey. On 17th midnight around 3pm I had to board the train (Aazad hind Express). So I decided to stay at Vipul's room that night. Vipul was my college mate & good friend.
I went to him. He congratulated me & asked for a party. Obviously I could not denied as that was last night in pune & had not have any idea where my future was. We went to well known restaurant drunk & enjoyed a lot there. when we came back it was around 12:30 pm & both of us were unconscious. but still we could alerted our mind that we had to woke up at 2:30 & catch the train. So we set alarm. Even Vipul asked his site watchman to call us that time.
We slept there. After some time when suddenly I woke up & saw the time it was 5 pm in the morning. A spontaneous terrible feeling passed through my body. My mind literally stopped working, because if I would miss the train I miss the golden career ahead. I woke up Vipul his reaction was same as that of mine after all he was also worried to not miss the train.
In just next 2-3 minutes we managed to left the room & started to go to station on his bike. It was 5:15 in the morning when we reached station. Obviously the train had already left the station. We inquired but no use. Now the picture was very clear that I could not go to Kolkata on time though it might have caused to miss the Cognizant joining.
We came out of station helpless ... some nervous minutes passed ...& I saw the private cabs standing on opposite sides of road. Then one thought came in my mind that if we could catch the train in Ahemadnagar which was one of the halt in the train journey & as the train was already went late by 2 hours, there might have possibility of it.
So we decided to go to Ahemadnagar by a private cab & catch the train but again it was not sure that we would reach before train pass from there. The CAB driver was asked us to pay 2500 just to drop us there that was very big amount for me that time & enough for my one month bread,butter. But as we didn't have any option we had to invest that amount in this risk.
It was dawn time & our cab started along with my heart engine as it was running fast because each & every seconds was very important as at any cost I didn't wanted to miss the train again in Ahemadnagar. I was requesting the driver to drive us fast but he was very rude & not listening me. I was counting every minute in that Pune to Nagar Journey. Vipul was couraging me. We might have passed half of the distance driver wanted to have a tea but I didn't allowed him as he had not have a little idea of what I gonna miss today. Suddenly One full loaded truck came in front of us & it was about to collide our car. I closed my eyes. that was really horrible incident but somehow driver managed to take the car away from the road & saved us, thanks to him.But after that he was driving carefully & very slow. Now I could not request him to raise the speed. When Vipul asked him to drive fast, he shouted on us referring to that incident. So we had to be quiet & just to wait.
Finally we reached in Ahemadnagar around 7:15 in the morning. we went directly to station by shortcut. As soon as our car got inside in the station premises I jumped out of it & ran to station master & inquired about Azad hind Express. & He said NO !! (train had not arrived there) but that was big YES for me. A reliving & joyful Yes. Immediately Vipul came following me we hugged each others. Now I had got great relief from last 3 painful hours.
After that within just 5 min train arrived at Nagar station & I got my seat. It was very mixture kind of feeling inside me that time as we just got saved in an accident while coming there, we caught the train because it had got late by 2 hours & I had to travel to Kolkata now & no idea when will come back. When I said bye to Vipul my eyes were full of tears & he was just seeing me with a little smile on face.
In just next 2-3 minutes we managed to left the room & started to go to station on his bike. It was 5:15 in the morning when we reached station. Obviously the train had already left the station. We inquired but no use. Now the picture was very clear that I could not go to Kolkata on time though it might have caused to miss the Cognizant joining.
We came out of station helpless ... some nervous minutes passed ...& I saw the private cabs standing on opposite sides of road. Then one thought came in my mind that if we could catch the train in Ahemadnagar which was one of the halt in the train journey & as the train was already went late by 2 hours, there might have possibility of it.
So we decided to go to Ahemadnagar by a private cab & catch the train but again it was not sure that we would reach before train pass from there. The CAB driver was asked us to pay 2500 just to drop us there that was very big amount for me that time & enough for my one month bread,butter. But as we didn't have any option we had to invest that amount in this risk.
It was dawn time & our cab started along with my heart engine as it was running fast because each & every seconds was very important as at any cost I didn't wanted to miss the train again in Ahemadnagar. I was requesting the driver to drive us fast but he was very rude & not listening me. I was counting every minute in that Pune to Nagar Journey. Vipul was couraging me. We might have passed half of the distance driver wanted to have a tea but I didn't allowed him as he had not have a little idea of what I gonna miss today. Suddenly One full loaded truck came in front of us & it was about to collide our car. I closed my eyes. that was really horrible incident but somehow driver managed to take the car away from the road & saved us, thanks to him.But after that he was driving carefully & very slow. Now I could not request him to raise the speed. When Vipul asked him to drive fast, he shouted on us referring to that incident. So we had to be quiet & just to wait.
Finally we reached in Ahemadnagar around 7:15 in the morning. we went directly to station by shortcut. As soon as our car got inside in the station premises I jumped out of it & ran to station master & inquired about Azad hind Express. & He said NO !! (train had not arrived there) but that was big YES for me. A reliving & joyful Yes. Immediately Vipul came following me we hugged each others. Now I had got great relief from last 3 painful hours.
After that within just 5 min train arrived at Nagar station & I got my seat. It was very mixture kind of feeling inside me that time as we just got saved in an accident while coming there, we caught the train because it had got late by 2 hours & I had to travel to Kolkata now & no idea when will come back. When I said bye to Vipul my eyes were full of tears & he was just seeing me with a little smile on face.
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