Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Squeaking around – carefree.

The last place one would want to keep company of our squeaky companions is surrounded by 72 berths and an equal number of people doping one activity or another for a journey that would last some two days and a majority eight hours.
On a journey back from home, traveling in India’s most talked about public transportation was the time this experience happened. Well not a totally unexpected experience in present day India but the reaction of passengers to the scene was totally baffling. How can people who have lived in this country actually believe something like this would not happen.
The quick hurried pace of something quickly going across from berth to another across each other, registers but faintly in ones mind. The feeling that is usually, eh? Did something actually go that way? Well a couple such moves get my inquisitiveness aroused. Shutting the book I was reading I sit down and watch what was it that went by.
Lo! behold a family of rats small ones running around happily enjoying themselves. After the initial shock its but hilarious watching the whole family merrily squeaking around the whole compartment that too in the relative comfort of air-conditioning leaving but some merry travelers petrified yet brave enough to actually sit there watching’n’waiting for the train to reach their destination.