tata jagriti yatra

this jagriti yatra is somethng dat happnd just a fortnght before, so i thnk its high time to start with this one...
for illiterates, tata jagriti yatra was a magnificent 18 day train journey takin 350 of the "BRIGHT" youth from all over the country and abroad to 18 places in 18 days all over the country making them meet with many ngo's,social entreprenuers n business entreprenuers to give them a source of inspiration and leaving inspired to do something good for the country...luckily i was a part of dis grt journey that took place frm 24th dec-11th jan and it was somethng dat changed my life in many ways....at the same time, i got a chance of meeting so many people frm diff places and different nooks and corners of life with my group being the best example....i would like to share some incidents that were on the softer side of the trip-i mean those funny incidents, some memorable chats n interactions, dat contributed the most in making this journey the most memorable one...

the night of horror
day 2...dec 25th..merry christmas
we had just started n were going frm mumbai to thiruvananthapuram....d journey was just too beautiful with the magnificent konkan ghats giving picteresque views all day....n evry1 on the train was njoyin it...throughout the day we were having discussions, chats and all over a whole list of topics.....some meaningful,some really baseless ranging from singing, arranged or love marriages, spiritualism wich was too gud wit aditya and guru n den finally as it was around 10pm suddenly the topic switched over to horror...we all then decided to play a game where each one would say a horror or spooky story wich dey had encountered in their life...the fun started.......
aditya and varun were mostly speakin of deir own remixed editions of various episodes of zee horror story...wich were partly spooky and partly funny....i had my own share of experiences which i shall share seperately..
den came mohit's turn...he literally made evryone spellbound and shocked wit d mention of his biking incidents- d one of 4 accidents in 4 months n den he said somethng that scared the shit out of us. he says-all his four accidents in four months were frm sep- nov at the end of the month where he was with a different group in a journey or a trip everytime he had the accident...n den suddenly it clicks that it was december,again d end of the month n again he was in a different group...suddenly evry1 was silent...some people indeed started praying....luckily nothin happened-unfortunately for mohit....
while dis all was happenin,hemant was completely silent n just listenin...so when we urged him to speak,he starts with his story,which believe me is the best story i have ever heard in my whole life...so he starts by askin - "How many of you hav carried a dead body?????""
silence all over...yet 2-3 of dem raise deir hand. his next question -"how many of u hav carried a dead body of a stranger???"" pin drop silence...d only thng audible was the noise of the moving train..n den he starts his story in his words -
" once i was coming home late from outside.As i was just entering, my neighbor aunty called me n said- hemant, can u help me??
i replied- sure aunty...wt can i do fr u??
aunty-i think dere is a body in my balcony....i dunno frm where it has come from...m really scared hemant...pls help me
i gained some courage and move into aunty's house all with good intentions....as i reached d balcony,dere was d body...it was in a corner,still as a rock....i went near d body and tried moving it...bt it ws nt moving...i checked its breath.........he was dead..."
hemant intentionally stops his story....evry1 is shockd n surprised....no one had expected dis type of story frm hemant.someone asks him-"wt did u do next??"
our hemant,sittin relaxed replies-"nothin...i just picked d body up n threw it in d dustbin.!!"
"WHAT??????"
ya..i threw it in the dustbin
nw it was confusion n shock more than fear...how could he throw a body in a dustbin???
hemant-"kuch nahi yaar...the body was that of a dead parrot.."
silence...i dunno if nyone wantd to say nythn or could get hold of the fact that it was a dead parrot....rest is history about wt happened wit him...
omg-d dead parrot...later dis story got famous all over d train as d chidiya story!!!!!!


D B.Sc confusion
hemant was seriously someone who could make you laugh at the drop of a hat...dunno if it was his innocence or his great sense of humour, you would almost end up laughing on every line he would speak....one more incident was d bsc incident
okk...so dis is during the middle of the journey...everyone is in deir respective births doin deir own work.... suddenly maitreyee frm d other grp comes n sits with us fr a chat....as she was chattin, suddenly hemantbhai moves forward n asks-" maitreyee, wt do u study??"
maitreyee- "m doin my b.sc."
n den knw wat hemant asks next??? - "ARE YOU DOING B.Sc IN SCIENCE??????""
i almost fell off my birth laughing...

How a different meaning of a sentence changes d whole perspective??
m sorry hemant....i hav to write this one too...dese small small jokes were somethng dat really kept us goin in d whole journey...okk again dis is somewhere in d middle of the journey..
we were havin a discussion or something till late in the night in the chair car and even the girls were with us....as we were discussin, hemant starts feelin very sleepy and n says - "guys...m feeling sleepy...does anybody wants to sleep with me????""
first silence...den laughter....it took some time before hemant realised d folly behind wat he said...it was just so funny..


the awake presentation
as a part of the journey, every group had to make a presentation on a role model. My grp had to make a presentation on awake, an organization based in bengaluuru..so we sat a day b4 thnkin to prepare fr it..an idea floats of makin a skit about how awake started and everyone agrees for it and then roles are distributed - hemant becomes a shrewd bank manager, tanya an educated lady strugglin fr a loan, shivani a.k.a kiddo a distressed rural housewife who is thrashed regularly by her husband, archana-a representative frm awake and so on...left was a role of a rural widow. as we had only 3 girls, it had to be done by a guy...n just coz adithya had long hair,he was chosen to do the role..poor guy.he was forced to shave his beard,something wich i thnk he had nt done since ages..
time fr rehearsal....1st.d tanya hemant scene...both r too gud in their roles...scene perfect
2nd. d adithya kiddo scene- as adithya was bit weak in hindi, i startd makin a script fr him...bt den it was nt goin dat good....he was nt abl to delivr dat well....n our varun...d iit-kgp one starts trainin him....while varun was teachin adithya,evryone noticed d hidden skill varun had in acting..he was just so good and natural....so aftr a lot of requesting n nautanki,d roles were exchanged...nw varun was d widow....d way varun spoke- his facial expressions, d lines he used, his body language,...was just tooo good...some excerpts frm his dialogues -
(as a widow)- ""kya batau behen...jabse wo chal base,mera jeena hi bahut mushkil ho gaya hai...kya karu,kaise karu, kuch samajh me hi nahi aa raha.....aur fir mera pappu(mohit) kuch karta bhi nahi hai....din bhar ghar me hi rehta hai,bas khata rehta hai,kuch karta bhi nahi hai....samajh me nahi aa raha mera gujara kaise hoga!!!!""
n den kiddo starts as a troubld housewife-"tumhe kya batau behen....mere wo roj ghar peeke aate hai aur mujhe bahut marte hai....mujhe kuch bolne bhi nahi dete....dinbhar main bas kaam karti rehti hu....mujhe pyar bhi nahi karte.."
it was just so hilarious....n believe me,,,people loved d skit...especially varun as d widow