It feels great to wield the pen (read keyboard) after a long time. The ideas were always there but maybe I wasn’t. Other things kept me occupied and my first love took a back seat. Now that the study tour (an important part of our curriculum) is over I’m looking forward to going back to my usual schedule – college, the department and of course poetry. But before all that I’d like to mention all about the study tour…. For it surely deserves some space on my blog…
The beginning wasn’t exactly great – DELHI!!!
Having left Indore on the 4th of March we reached Delhi on the 5th morning.
We boarded the bus to reach the All India Institute of Medical Sciences-our first stop. No
sooner had the bus progressed when our buswallah almost collided with a guy on a bike and lo! the biker had climbed the bus window to hit the driver!!
The Delhi adventure had begun.
At AIIMS the OPD was in progress and so we had to wait.
In the meantime we decided to take lunch…finding a place wasn’t very easy. We got into a Blueline bus and soon realized that one of our classmates was left behind at AIIMS.
Poor guy! He alone knows how he managed to find us.
After finishing lunch we came back to AIIMS and were shown around the electrotherapy units.
In the evening we went to Connaught place and Palika bazaar…the most interesting bit was traveling in the Delhi metro…simply loved it!!
Crossing the road was fun as well for we stopped the traffic every time we did so…41 people altogether!
The next day was wholly reserved for sight seeing – Qutub Minar, towered above everything else. Also the iron pillar left us surprised as it stood rust free even after so many years!!
The Lotus temple was magnificent. (Sydney opera house, anyone?) I don’t have words to explain how wonderful it was to observe complete silence!!!
Then we visited the ISKCON temple and Chatarpur mandir – we paid reverence to Lord Shiva (it was Mahashivratri that day).
Now we had to see Red fort. But our driver had other things in mind. He didn’t pay heed to anyone and rushed ahead. This infuriated the boys and there was a heated exchange(gaalis and all) between them and the driver that ended with a few blows here and there. And so we had to walk through Chandni chowk to reach Red fort.
That was a tiresome walk through an awful place. Somehow we reached the fort and it looked really marvelous in the moonlight (the red stone wasn’t that obvious though).
At last the Delhi sojourn was over and we boarded the train to Chandigarh…
A new place and experience awaited us!!!!!!!
