Ting Tong, our next station is Patna Junction, The city of Patna has an impressive historical background, with Patna Sahib reckoned as one of the holiest destination of Sikh community- the train will stop here for 20 minutes. Patna is famous on tourist map for Golgher, Gandhi Maidan, Botanical Garden, Nehru Planetarium, Patna Sahib Gurudwara and Nalanda, Takshshilaa in its close vicinity Thank you.
Those ever crossed Patna on a Rajdhani can identify with this announcement in a Rajdhani! Those who have not; hold their breadth and read to know Patna! The city I have stayed for few years, a city where part of my roots must be still intact.
The capital city of Bihar awaiting it’s next CM- Fauladi the doode(yahaa toh yahi kahenge)
Situations are changing for better after Nitish sworn in as CM, but sorry doode, dhoodh walas are strictly no no for this state- a former dhoodwala CM- during his tenure the state’s mantra was jiski laathi usski bhains! And that was the time I spent my few horrible years in this state! Having shifted from Kolkata, this city was like asking a foreigner to have daal chaawal leaving his regular diet, but my father said we have to bear this daal chaawal for two- three years, since he was here for a short stint after a promotion! But I thought a promotion meant changes for better! Bag and Baggage we came to Lalu’s Land unsure about our cometh days.
Quicks lessons learnt- anarchy and gopes rule the land(gopes are bihari version of Mumbaiya Bhaikers) but I never took them seriously! Mistake done!
Quick flash to our contemporary Vedas- jad, joru, zameen are the root cause of any brawl- I never took it seriously! Mistake done!
Now living in free atmosphere of Kolkata we never knew irrationality and illogic moves can surge to such an immense height in some unruly parts of the world. Bihar was just one of them! I never took it seriously! Mistake done!
Girl, boy, boy, girl are usual, normal content of any society, but there could be another side of this relation- a certain girl is bhai’s favorite and no one living in the locality sums up the courage to get close to Bhai’s(Gope’s) girl, the funniest part the girl doesn’t even in her wildest of dreams could imagine about her association with this goon but the bhai has set his vulture eyes on the girl. I never took it seriously! Mistake done!
I got close to this girl but never at any point of the time this was more than being friends, but Lalu Land’s Gope took irr to my proximity with this girl, I noticed him hovering around me, prying upon my activities more than usual. But I never took it seriously! Mistake done!
One fine morning when I was on the saddle of my cycle with reign(read handle) firm in my hand, the Gope suddenly appeared out of the thin air, in his bihaari avatar- gamchaa- a short knee length towel, chewing daatun, stopped me with few of his goons, and enquired me about my proximity with the girl! I laughed off his cold voice which sounded more like a threat! Last few dialogues if you can decipher- jyada ude na toh khopri khol denge- itnaa chhed karenge ki geen nahi paaoge bed!
I was stunned! Yet holding my already crumbling courage dared to mutter- that I am no way romantically attached to that girl, and if he tries to act smart will certainly give him a good lesson! Last few dialogue from me- khol ke dikhaa do, baki saamne se hato- bahut delkhein tumhaare jaise! But deep in my heart I know this was time to take it seriously and! I have certainly done a mistake by not taking his advances seriously.
What followed next was nightmare- as the gope belonged to the yadav clan and every tom dick harry yadav living in biher thought himself to be bhanja of Lalu Yadav. It will take another review to let you know how I managed to deal with this situation- which includes real shootouts, chaakubaazi and finally the case landed up in Patna High Court. God saved me from the worst nightmare of my life. Only Ravi the scientist on MS(he belongs from KV Kankerbagh too) will know how awe-full it was for me to live in police protection.
Sad the land of Budhaa, Mahavira, Patna Sahib had been turned to a goonda raaj under the Laloodom! Few of my relatives now tell me that things are back on track after Nitish’s arrival! But yes I know deep in my heart how hate to think about Patna- the land I take as my vanwaas!