We
are essentially social beings, although there are contestations by scholars
that human beings are political beings. It was indeed life’s one time moment
when we got together along with people and we occurred to embark on an
unplanned journey. It was in my graduation days in the Delhi College of Arts
and Commerce when I got the opportunity along with my fellow NCC friends to be
a part of an organized trip by the University of Delhi named ‘Gyanodaya’. The
basic intention was to explore the myriad cultures and to understand the vastly
diverse nature of India, in this trip the location spotted for us was the north-eastern
part of state Rajasthan. The university was essentially funding for this trip,
hence most of the NCC cadets were to be a part of it. The journey began from
Delhi Cantonment station where everybody arrived. It turned out as a carnival when
more than 1,500 students were going for a similar journey. As there were
spectacular arrangements along with a structure of disciplined arrangements,
since it was essentially organized by the military personnel and NCC cadets.
Along with us two teaching professors were accompanying 25 cadets form our
college. It was quite visible to see our train with unique arrangements and
most essentially it was named as the ‘Gyanodaya Express’. The moment we were walking
towards our train to get into our respective seats, we were glad to see a
distribution of sweets and juice packets. Some of the cadets were playing songs
while few were busy in collecting as much sweets as they could, and some got so
busy in dancing that they ended up dropping their bags on platform!
The
train finally departed as every college student acquired their respective
seats. It was a great moment going together along with my friends. In the
entire train speakers were installed to communicate with large number of
students, however it was used to wish each other birthdays which mostly were
bogus efforts to turn up their voice. We finally reached our destination, Ajmer,
early next morning as we all moved towards our respective buses and here we
were basically supposed to reach Army Unit that was supposed to display their
weaponry and armaments. Most of the students were amazed with those gigantic
armed machinery, however they were not much scared as everyone climbed over
those armed vehicles and took their pictures, and this was followed by visit to
the Ajmer fort.
Everything
was going smoothly while travelling in the desert state Rajasthan until things
took a wrong way in Jaisalmer when few students got sick and ill due to food
poising. In our group along with myself, several others got diarrhea and felt
uncomfortable with the journey. As one of the members got admitted along with
other students and we got to know through local news reports in television. One
of our friends gave a major statement regarding food arrangements and trip
officials reprimanded him for this. It was a tough moment to continue the
journey as everyone was feeling unwell in the mid of this journey. However, we
students together stayed and said to continue as it is life’s one time moment.
Later, the university officials sent doctors team from WUS, who distributed
medicines while in moving buses and asked health conditions of every individual
in this journey. Despite deteriorating health conditions we continued our trip
and visited the Indo-Pak border post as well. As it was a collective decision
and togetherness which made our trip to be a learning experience that by being
together we could accomplish anything and turn worst conditions into favorable
moments of our lives. With this we had successfully accomplished our journey
and arrived safely back to Delhi.
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