Sunday, January 20, 2008

Jeevandaan..

Just some days back, i experienced one of those days which I may forget in my whole life..

Same kind of thing happened with me some 11-12 years ago, when I went to my mama's wedding, my mother's cousin, in Bhind. Bhind which is just 20 kms away from Chambal River, famous for bandits. That day was a good mahurat for weddings, so there were many marriages going on in that city on that day, many baraats were moving simultaneously all around the city... Our baraat was passing another baraat which was moving in opposite direction.. everything was just ok..everybody was dancing..enjoying those moments..i was also moving with my nanaji with my hand in his..then all of a sudden something happened.. don't know exactly why it started and who started it.. some people from other baraat started hitting people of our baraat.. Those days people usually carried a few guns with them at the wedding time.. just to fire in the air, to feel proud and show their power.. So, when fight started, those people took out their guns and stated firing and throwing stones towards us..Everybody started running here and there.. And I don't know when I got away from my nanaji and all other people I knew there..all alone with some strangers, which I realized later that those were in our baraat only..there was a construction work was going on near to that place and people around me started moving toward that building to find some place to hide..and I also started moving with those people.. I ran..kept running till the noise of the guns and people could not be heard anymore.. And then with the help of one uncle in that group I managed to reach to my mama's house..
When I think of that day, one thought comes to my mind.. It was kind of a Jeevandaan and I will never forget that day..

When similar kind of incident happened with me, I thought of writing a blog.. it happened some 10-12 days back.. I went to Ahmedabad with two friends.. We did some shopping and walked a lot.. And then came to bus stand to get a transport to reach Gandhinagar.. I guess it was one of those unlucky day when Murphy's rule applies at its best.. suppose you are waiting for bus, you will notice that there are NO buses moving on your route, but there are many buses moving in the other direction.. So, that was that day.. :S
We kept waiting..waiting and waiting.. and there was no sign of bus.. and then a van came, one friend denied to go by that van, as it is always risky to travel in LPG vehicles.. so we decided not to go by it.. that van just moved a little bit and kept waiting for passengers.. after 5, 10 minutes..that same van moved backwards and asked us again.. by that time we were getting a little frustrated because of waiting for a long time for bus, so we decided to go by that van.. gandhinagar is just 25 kms from that place.. The van started moving..inside that van..we all could smell the LPG gas.. we thought that may be it is a usual thing in LPG vehicles.. we traveled some 10-12 kms.. by that time one friend started feeling a headache due to that gas smell.. Till this time everything was just normal in that van.. three of us were sitting on one side..and three people were sitting opposite to us..man opposite to me was talking to phone since he entered the van.. some stupid music was playing that time..I saw driver bending down and doing something near to the gear stick.. I thought may be he is trying to put on the radio..then he stopped the van near by the road.. I thought that may be he couldn't do it while moving..so he has stopped to turn on the radio.. but then he switched off the ignition of the car.. he kept doing something.. some seconds laster.. hardly 8-10 seconds had passed.. i asked the driver that what has happened.. and then after 2-3 seconds, I heard a word "aag" in a very very low voice... I don't know, who said it.. (later, I came to know that my friends didn't heard that word..) and then all of a sudden..driver opened his gate..the man sitting behind him opened his door.. man sitting opposite to me, still talking on the phone, opened ours door.. but, the man sitting opposite to my friend tried to open his gate, opposite to ours, but he couldn't.. all started running out to get away from the car.. the man opposite to me got outside, he moved to some distance from the car, still talking on phone..(i don't know how he could still manage to talk on the phone..because the first thing came to my mind was a BLAST..as we see in the movies.. blast in car.. then car jumping in the air..all that crap.. :S ) .. So, after that person I got outside, I started running, with my legs shaking heavily..I managed to reach to some distance away from the car...then stopped and turned around..and saw the two friends coming near to me..we all were too shocked by this incident.. Nobody knew what has happened in that car.. We just wanted to get away as soon as we could.. and we managed to get an auto rikshaw to get back to college..
Fortunately, nothing happened to that car in front of us.. No idea what had happened after we left.. Till the time we reached college, we kept laughing at what had happened with us and each one of us telling our own experience of those moments...then I came to know that my friend's experience was much more horrible than mine.. from the time when I heard the word "aag" in the van, till the time when i got out, started running away from van..then stopped and turned away, saw my friends.. their experience was totally different.. actually, as they didn't heard the word "aag", so when everybody started moving out in a rush, both of them couldn't figure out, what was happening.. when some of people got out, one friend saw some smoke coming out near to the gear stick, thats when he realized that something was wrong, his legs started trembling..as his side door had not been by the person sitting opposite to him.they came out from the opposite door and .these two people were the last two coming out of van.. so they had much horror of getting stuck.. fortunately, nothing happened.. but I again realized that this was my second Jeevandaan".. the god has saved my life again.. and I will never forget this day..







2 comments:

Unknown said...

oh my god! all that happened to you when you're so small ?? :O

glad you are still sane to write this blog :P

Sidharth said...

Now I realize why some ppl sent me the fodu pics!!![:P] (1st incident)