Wednesday, September 17, 2014

TRIP TO HEAVEN TURNED INTO NIGHTMARE -- PART 5

Sept 10:
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We totally broke down lost all hope to return alive to our land. At least we were getting food from hotel owner.Water level was quite low on that day. We went to taxi stand near by and asked one taxi driver whether road to airport was open or not. He told after 2 Km there is still water up to 2nd floor. There is no way to go airport. We came back to hotel room. 5 to 6 chopper were continuously flying on the sky rescuing people some choppers were dropping food packets. Some Army boats were busy in rescuing people who were stuck in their home in flood. But no one was there to help us. Dont know why god was taking so much patience test. But our difficulty was nothing in front of local people.They were continuously complaining central government not helping them but I could see lots of choppers water boats were continuously rescuing people. The sky was look like as if I was watching some SI-FI movie but still local people didn't happy with central government. One Local man told when there was flood in Uttarakhand with in no time central government rescue all the affected people but here government is doing nothing.What to reply them, If we reply against
them in this situation their anger will increase toward us. We told everywhere same case, We all are belongs to odisha where every year flood comes. Not a single help coming from central government to rescue people.After a while we came back to hotel room.We started playing taash it was 1:30 PM hotel owner didn't call us for lunch. We thought food is not cooked.We took dry food and continue taash.At evening hotel owner denied dinner will not be available and told there is a masjid near by you can go there and have your dinner.We said ok no problem we will arrange our food. We went
outside to see the whether water level decreased or not. There construction was like that one side there is Jhelum river by the river side there is road and other side construction. Construction was 8 to 10 feet below the river water level.If river overflows water comes to other side but when water level goes down water on the road goes down but water on other side remains there. Some where road is also constructed below river level so water stuck there not coming down. We checked the water level it was slightly less then what we saw in morning.We returned back and went to masjid to have dinner. First we afraid whether we should go inside or not because we all were hindu and they were muslim. If some miss happened the outcome will be worst. We stood near the gate. One man came and told us just go inside food is available for all. We first felt reluctant to go inside. He told with smile just go don't think much first take food be safe then we will think who is allah and who is bhagwan. We gave a smile and went inside.What a hospitality, what a humanity. Like Kashmir, people are also kind and beautiful by nature.No matters who was muslim who was hindu who was poor and who was rich, all were on the road, all had same problem,all were on the same floor and all were taking food in the same thali.Thats the nature justice. All are equal in front of nature. We set in queue and had dinner togather. They were offering food as if we were there for wedding ceremony. So much respect. We had stomach full rice and dal there and came back.

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