Trip Continued

I want to finish this blog asap. After BS city, the weather became little hot, since the sun had already risen. I wanted to have a little sleep, went for it since the upper birth was completely free. Ordered for the lunch after i got up. The food was good. Forgot exactly what was served, but it was purely vegeterian-food. Railway-food, prepared from the pantry-cars gurantee you it will digest properly and at the same time it was tasty too. I took one novel 'Alchemist' by 'Paulo Cohelo' with me but could not read more than 5/6 pages. The train was still crossing through Jharkhand. I was repenting 'had i had a camera in my possession'? Kaash mere paas ek camera hota? I wanted to take some snaps of outside. In the mean time, we were informed the train had been running late half-an-hour. The train came to Gaya. I ve a very close friend 'Golu' aka 'Ashutosh' from gaya. I am runnig out of words. Mughal sarai came. Whoever has gone over UP, must have an experience how people over there cheat. One guy, having ordinary second-class ticket came in our sleeper coach and seat comfortably. When the TTE charged him for not having proper ticket, he said, he is the "brother" of so-and-so person, who is the head TTE of Deluxe express. The TTE's finally had to leave him. Quite fine an excuse!! Those people descended at Mughal-Sarai. At this station, i had some chat with my fellow-passengers and came to know that the fruit 'guava' aka 'piara' in bengali, aka 'aamroot' in hindi is called 'pijuli' in Oriya. Good funda. Only 2 stoppages from there the Kanpur Central railway station. Mirzapur and Allahabad. At Mirzapur, the typical UP'ians boarded the train and went to occupy the upper births straight-way. Allahabad came after 1 and half-hour from Mirzapur. I think i m depicting a monologue. All right. In between Allahabad and Kanpur, somewhere i had my dinner with Anda-biryani, served from the pantry-car itself. That food was good too. Around 9:15 in the night i packed up everything. Train reached kanpur central around 10 in the night.
The weather was not so cool as i was expecting. Already had the information that 'tempo' is available to go to the IIT, which take minimal charges compare to the 100/- bucks demanded by the taxis and autos. So hired for one ricksha first which came to a place called 'parad', from where i got a tempo to go to the IIT-K. The IIT is around 16 kms from the Kanpur central railway station. It took around 45 minutes to reach there. The Kanpur city is not bad either. A decent city life exists outside IIT itself in contrary to IIT-KGP, where i belong.

The city has one multiplex, some good restaurants, couple of plazas too. Saw 2/3 universities in the way too. At last came the IIT-K main gate.

Saw the 'Antaragni' poster outside. So and so sponsors. But not a single sound outside, i mean near the main gate, i couldn't hear a single sound of a fest. In the end it turned up, the main fest arena is quite far from the gate. That night (21st of Oct) some rock-band was performing. Those usual rock songs 'we will rock u', some 'Enrique' stuffs. Though i dont listen to rock frequently, i know the names atleast. Had a long walk from the gate to the fest-arena and then was informed that 'Hall7' was the remotest from there. Finally reached 'Hall7'. It was 11:30 in the night. Went to Arindam's room. Even he was quite surprised to see me. Actually even he couldn't believe i would reach there so fast. Had some words exchanged between us, better not mentioned here. Was introduced to his friend Rishabh there. We all were final year dual-degree students of CSE department. Went to the CSE department that night. And since it was already 1 in the night, not a single of the show was going on. All the participants and students were resting here and there. One thing was noticeable. UP girls have average heights of mine. We both got tired after 2 hours of trolling and it was 4 in the night. Came back to his room and had a sound sleep. I will continue later.