Ramagundam – 8th June 2016
Ramagundam for me was quite a life experience. It all began
with our visit to mine where we had scheduled the tests of one of our product.
It was a coal mine and it can be a haunting place for anybody as we can find
only huge trucks moving and people busy with their work despite the scorching
heat. When I mean scorching heat, the temperature was around 42 C and this is
the time you will feel as if you are carrying sun on your shoulders. It is a
tough job and appreciable as to how people work for their living, for
their family well-being, staying away from them for months deprived of the
basic luxuries what we enjoy every day. Yes, it feels bad but it is part of
life which probably few are destined to.
I was scheduled to return today (8th June) to Secundarabad
by Bhagyanagar express which leaves Ramagundam at 5:15 am ideal time. I mentioned
it as ideal time as the train was delayed by almost an hour. However, I had got
up at 4 am and called up the auto guy and got myself ready. Strangely it
started raining heavily when I came out of hotel. The auto guy didn’t turn up
as it was raining. I soon rushed to a circle which in a normal time is an auto
stand. There were no autos and I had to wait in rain half drenched for few
minutes and after which I found an auto guy who agreed to take me to railway
station.
The railway station was 3 km away from the circle but had
to run into quite a bit of twists and turns to reach there. At times I was
really afraid not knowing where we are going. I tried to engage into a conversation
more than once just to confirm that he is a good guy. At one point of time I
asked the auto guy “3 km seems to be taking lot of time, are we going in right
direction, where is the railway station?”
The auto guy just replied saying “We are in right direction, Sir”.
Few minutes later the auto guy showed me the railway station
from far and told me in a soft voice, “You are not from this town and I
understood that you were anxious as you didn’t know the route and moreover you
are travelling in Auto who have never been trusted for safety. But not all Auto
drivers are like that and we try to take care of you as much as we can.”
We reached railway station and the words of auto guy is still ringing in my ears which left me dumbstruck but gave me a soothing experience
of Ramagundam people.
