An effect of Mega Serials...

Chapter 1 : Looking to Escape


Bangalore is blessed by the weather God to have a beautiful climate mostly all through the year, with its warm, bright mornings and cozy cold evenings . The very look of bangalore, except traffic, is attractive. Lush green parks in the heart of a residential locality, lovely trees with those lavender flowers, small yet busy fast food shops serving crispy hot masala dosas are few reasons for any one to love the City of Bangalore.

Our friend Vishi is not in a mood to enjoy this pleasant misty evening, in fact he is looking panicky and sweating all over, beating the cold weather in Bangalore. He is thinking of leaving Bangalore immediately without anyone's notice and he has no time left. He looks at his watch, it was some where around 8 25 pm and the road looks deserted. "Thanks to the 8 pm serial in the tv channels" he said to himself. He has ample amount of time to catch the night train to chennai at 22 45 hrs and would be able to leave Bangalore. It will hardly take 45 minutes to one hr in an auto rickshaw. Let me run to the main road before any one sees me here. Praying to God that no one shud have seen him leaving that house, he just looked back to ensure that no one is following him. He is confused, frustrated and tired, wanted badly to rest for a while to catch up on his breath. He still could not think about what happened in THAT house.

He has a job in hand! He has to leave this city before he gets caught ! Take an Auto, said the mind. Hurried walking, now changed to running. he was literally running. He could hear his heart thumping out loud. He remembered his doctor words, for your age your heart beat should not be more than 165 bpm, higher will cause heart attacks. He was not able to imagine how it feels when the heart beats more than 165 bpm when the doctor said that, he will be thirsty that his mouth will not be able to generate saliva ! He really suck his breath all through from his stomach which gave him the saliva, the water that he needed to keep him running. Finally, here it is Bannerghatta Road. The mere look of the Reliance Mart made him feel that he reached much safer place. Autos are available in plenty here, he said to himself. Much to his luck, he could see an auto parked in the left side of the road. Looks like the Auto driver is having a sip of his coffee in the adigas restaurant to beat the cold. He can easily get hold of him , who in turn can take him to the Bangalore City Station. When he neared the auto, suddenly it striked his mind NOoooooooO!!!! " Don't take an auto", may be later the Police might be able to track me down to the Auto driver and in turn they can easily find that I left Bangalore. Make sense, he said to himself again. Looks like he now talks to him more than a mentally insane.

By this time, he already crossed the parked auto with his face comfortably hidden under the blue base ball cap that he was wearing. He has only one option left, to walk all through from Bannerghatta road till the Bangalore city station, even buses are not a great option as someone might notice him. this is the problem of working in Bangalore, one or the other person somehow knows most of the IT employees since all of them work for the famous IT companies. This is gonna be a long walk for him to reach the station. He had to go past the IIM Bangalore, Jayanagar, lalbagh and corporation circle before he reaches the station. Unfortunately, the time is ticking for his train to Chennai ...!

Now his thought process is all clear...Walk to the station, buy an unreserved ticket so that there is no necessity of showing an ID proof and go to Chennai. Once reached chennai, I will be one among the millions and it will not be so easy for anyone to locate me. The last train he is supposed to catch has already left mysore and the driver just pressed the lever to speed up the train so that he can reach Bangalore city on time...

To be Continued....