The Journey....

I woke up in the morning after having fallend asleep listening to the rambling of the Jamalpur express as it sped towards a new destination in my life.The word "Bihar" had always conjured up images of a world ruled by pandemonium and avarice where lawlessness was the law and a diurnal journey was fraught with dodging bullets whizzing past one's ears.
The company had sent an Ambassador to take us to Munger...a world from which one of my closest friends had risen and was now making his living amidst the urban chaos of Bangalore. The vehicle by itself was a symbol of our bureaucratic past where the car would traverse the dusty terrain of our country , an era which India was trying to forget.....

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My world now is a philosophers' delight...a small town where we live in luxury with uninterrupted electricity and water...a pleasure which I had not seen in my childhood...which most in the town have not yet seen..a world which I felt could only be created by Premchand's stories and in films...
Is this for real ??

I woke up in the morning after having fallend asleep listening to the rambling of the Jamalpur express as it sped towards a new destination in my life.The word "Bihar" had always conjured up images of a world ruled by pandemonium and avarice where lawlessness was the law and a diurnal journey was fraught with dodging bullets whizzing past one's ears.
The company had sent an Ambassador to take us to Munger...a world from which one of my closest friends had risen and was now making his living amidst the urban chaos of Bangalore. The vehicle by itself was a symbol of our bureaucratic past where the car would traverse the dusty terrain of our country , an era which India was trying to forget.....

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My world now is a philosophers' delight...a small town where we live in luxury with uninterrupted electricity and water...a pleasure which I had not seen in my childhood...which most in the town have not yet seen..a world which I felt could only be created by Premchand's stories and in films...
Is this for real ??