For me travelling is always fun as one gather so many experiences and stories, both good & bad. Sharing one below incident...

After visiting our friend Punsa (Puneet Sharma) in Khurja near Bulandshehar (U.P.). Me & my friend Anthony were coming back to Gurgaon on my Yamaha Gladiator. It was around 8 pm we reached to a place which was full of small non-veg stalls & dhabas. It was on road and crowded. There were long queues on almost every stall. The flesh of goat & chicken was hanging at the counter to attract non-veg lovers. Anthony asked me to stop there and try some non-veg dish. As I am vegetarian I told him that if he wants he can but I will not. I also told him that it doesn’t seem to be a good place the whole atmosphere was bit scary, at least for me. He assured me and said at such places you find authentic non-veg. We went to a dhaba where a man in lungi putting chapattis in the Tandoor. Small kids were serving the customers and a man who was looking like a bouncer was sitting at the counter taking orders. I remember Anthony ordered some mutton dish which was very cheap approx. Rs 60 per plate. I asked Anthony that in Rs.60 what mutton he is going to get is really doubtful. I reminded him the Kaua biryani incident happened in movie ‘Run’. Anthony was sure that he will get something good. We both sat on the bench there waiting for the order. After few minutes a child of age 7-8 years brought a plate of mutton & chapatti. It was very awkward for us that such small kid was serving but it was not the place where we could have said anything, as we were sure that his father also working at any of those dhabas nearby. Anthony was enjoying his food and I was checking my mobile suddenly we heard that the man in lungi shouted at one of the child serving chapatti and hit him so hard on the chest with open hand that he fall on the floor 3-4 feet away. Child took almost 5-10 seconds to catch his breath and then cried hard. I looked at Anthony he told me that it won’t be a good idea to say anything here. We saw him crying for two to three minutes and then he was again back to work, serving chapattis. We left and were on bike coming back to Gurgaon. Both were quite. I was thinking about the child, thinking that what should I have done? I should have taken stand for him? I was engrossed with these thoughts suddenly Anthony asked me the question ‘Do you know why that child cried’. I found the question stupid and replied with anger and irritation ‘ofcourse because that bastard hit him so hard, he was hurt and must be in pain’. Anthony replied ‘No, he cried because at that moment he was not in a position to answer back that bastard. No one in life cries due to physical pain. One cries only when he or she feels helpless’. This reply of Anthony touched me and I agree to it.

I ask myself..what you want...I want to be new. It's a different feeling when the things are new to you and you to them. You observe..interpret you own..you make your own experience. You explore things yourself & create your own definition....But slowly these experiences & definitions start becoming a burden and hindrance as it makes you biased. Your one bad experience stops you to move further in that direction. Your options starts reducing with the time and you become predictable....Hence, I want to be new like a child...cheerful, carefree, full of enthu & curiosity, daring, fearless..unbiased. How good it would be if we can born daily with the morning and die with evening as sun rises with soft sunshine with full of life, become strong & luminous by day with experience, starts getting mild by evening...and rises again next morning with same soft sunshine full of life......

 

 

Learnt something in mountains which are not in our text books these days……..
Me and my two friends reached Bedni Bugyal, had lunch and took rest for an hour. We wanted to cover as much as possible so we started our trekking towards Bhagwabasa, as we had only 3 days for Roopkund trek. We started from Bedni Bugyal around 3 pm same day and thought would reach Bhagwabasa by 6 pm. We crossed the mountain around 5.30 pm and afterwards looking at each turn use to think that behind it would be Bhagwabasa, but dissapointed every time. Watch was showing 7.30, our shadows left us alone in the dark, water bottles were empty and we were tired and hungry. We thought of setting up our tents there but we needed food and water so we kept walking. Suddenly, my friend noticed some tents down the ground almost half a km away. That sight injected energy into our body. We rushed towards that direction, jumping and running towards those tents. After crossing small water stream we reached to the place in 15 to 20 minutes. After reaching there we realized, that was some private setup. We asked one of the people who were working there that is it the place Bhagwabasa where we can get food. He told us that it is a trekking organizer’s camp (IndiaHikes). He pointed his finger in other direction towards the edge of the mountain at a height and said that there we should go for food and stay. We looked at each other and felt like a dead man. We requested him if we can get food, we can pay for it and we have our own tents to stay which we can setup there at some distance. He said he has to check. He came back in 5 minutes; asked us to take dinner first and assured that then he will help us in setting up the tent. He and his mates served us the delicious food and forced us to have full diet. We washed our utensils and moved to setup our tent. He and his friend helped us in setting up the tent, knowing that we were too tired. When we shared that we forgot to bring mattress and as the tent has slight leakage from the bottom, how our sleeping bag got wet last night, they brought us 3 mattresses. We wished each other good night and slept. It again rained that night but due to mattresses we were safe. Next day morning we wished each other, they forced us to have breakfast before leaving. We had breakfast and decided to leave our tent there and will collect while returning. We started to walk towards Roopkund, discussing and thanking those people who helped us so much. When we came back, we saw that our tent was clean and dry. The sleeping bag which was wet was also dry. They cleaned our tent, kept our sleeping bag under the sun to get dry, so that we don’t face problem in the night. All this they did without being asked and without any expectation. They did not take a single rupee. I was so touched and moved. I thought for a while that how I would be able to return this favor and then I realized that it can only be by helping someone when he/she needed the most. I learnt what goodness is, for me it was a big deal but for them it just the way they are. They insisted us to have tea before leaving from there, we had tea, hugged each other , said good bye and moved towards Bedni Bugyal.
26th June'16 at Bedni Bugyal

Morning Blush

Sharing Beauty of Jaipur at 5:00 am from Nahargarh..

Had an amazing trip to Gandhi Sagar Dam in M.P. It's 350 k.m. from Jaipur. Sharing few pics...

           After having a short trip to Himachal Pradesh and seeing the interior places over there I realized there is such a beautiful heaven on earth which I wasn’t aware of. Though, earlier I heard from many people defining the beauty they have visited but it is completely a different experience to see it from your own eyes and through your eyes it touches your soul and becomes your unforgettable experience. This trip opened the doors to a different world for me, of which I wasn’t aware about (All credit goes to Kartik Balwan bhaiya who gave me the opportunity to join the trip). This made me crazy and I decided to take next step and travel to Ladakh by bike.  Almost a month from now, on 15^th July me and two of my friends are planning to go to Ladakh. If anyone is interested to join can write to me.

         I will keep you posted with the progress. 

Reading book "Path Ke Dawedaar" written by Sharatchandra Chattopadhyaya.....Few lines from it.

वह वहीँ खड़ाखड़ा उच्छ्वासित आवेग से मन ही मन कह उठा, लोग कहते हैं - यही 

दुनिया है. संसार के सब काम इसी तरह हमेशा होते आएं हैं. पर यह भी कोई तर्क

है? यह संसार क्या अतीत के लिए ही है? मनुष्य क्या अपने पुराने संस्कार लेकर

ही अचल बना रहेगा?  क्या किसी नयी बात की कल्पना नहीं कर सकेगा? क्या 

उन्नति करने के उस के सभी प्रयत्न पूरे हो चुके हैं,  जो बीत चुका है,  जो मर चुका है,

केवल उस की ही इच्छा,उन्ही का विधान क्या मनुष्य के सम्पूर्ण भविष्य को, सम्पूर्ण 

जीवन को और महान बनने  के सभी द्वारों को बंद कर चिरकाल तक अपना प्रभुत्व

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