To be honest, this is just experience noting, and not really a content based blog.
I get anxiety and nightmares sometimes, and so it happened this morning, So, I was up at 4:30, reeling from the after shocks of a nightmare, which all passed by 5ish. And then the only thing on mind was, surprisingly, food - food, hot breakfast, preferably spicy. No one was up at this ungodly hour and I wasn't in so many senses as to cook it up.
So I went on to Zomato looking for what's open. Apparently, there is only one 24X7 cafe in our vicinity. And those guys weren't picking up the phone. So began, my mission to scout an unlisted place. I knew that, there has got to be someone catering to this rare market!
And there is only one place, they could be. Why, of course areas near Railway Station. So I set off on foot about 2 kms away to the railway station.
The railway station and surrounding market at morning is something else! Something to observed patiently.
I guess, I was the only one in tracks and sneakers, because no one does their morning-walk and food search together at this unexpected location. There were people who had not yet gone home and were still in Wednesday. Then there were those who got up early just to earn their bread. Especially,the vegetable-ladies who had traveled with their stuff from far away. So many of them, so young, huddled together in a group, gossiping almost as if were at the school recess. The newspaper wala, of course, carrying reams and reams to be sorted. Bus travels and travel-pick up points bustling with persons leaving the city in this holiday time. And then the homeless, ubiquitous, shivering, hungry, dirty. I crossed all of them feeling like a useless cog in this giant machinery.
Then I got to station!
There was this mother and daugther, and the daughter was fully decked up in festival finery, I wondered what time these two had got up.. And then came railway canteen.. the canteen wala was frying fresh samosa's! Now if you know me a little then you know my love for samosas! I was at it in no time asking him what time he starts! To which he replied 3:30 A.M. There several regulars and some asking for 'chai-doodh-kam',which was strange since it was machine tea! but the demand kept on coming. I had my filled and packed up half a dozen or giving some one needy, I didn't have trouble finding those people.
So, ended my weird morning prowl.
So much transpires in this world past my bed-time.
I get anxiety and nightmares sometimes, and so it happened this morning, So, I was up at 4:30, reeling from the after shocks of a nightmare, which all passed by 5ish. And then the only thing on mind was, surprisingly, food - food, hot breakfast, preferably spicy. No one was up at this ungodly hour and I wasn't in so many senses as to cook it up.
So I went on to Zomato looking for what's open. Apparently, there is only one 24X7 cafe in our vicinity. And those guys weren't picking up the phone. So began, my mission to scout an unlisted place. I knew that, there has got to be someone catering to this rare market!
And there is only one place, they could be. Why, of course areas near Railway Station. So I set off on foot about 2 kms away to the railway station.
The railway station and surrounding market at morning is something else! Something to observed patiently.
I guess, I was the only one in tracks and sneakers, because no one does their morning-walk and food search together at this unexpected location. There were people who had not yet gone home and were still in Wednesday. Then there were those who got up early just to earn their bread. Especially,the vegetable-ladies who had traveled with their stuff from far away. So many of them, so young, huddled together in a group, gossiping almost as if were at the school recess. The newspaper wala, of course, carrying reams and reams to be sorted. Bus travels and travel-pick up points bustling with persons leaving the city in this holiday time. And then the homeless, ubiquitous, shivering, hungry, dirty. I crossed all of them feeling like a useless cog in this giant machinery.
Then I got to station!
There was this mother and daugther, and the daughter was fully decked up in festival finery, I wondered what time these two had got up.. And then came railway canteen.. the canteen wala was frying fresh samosa's! Now if you know me a little then you know my love for samosas! I was at it in no time asking him what time he starts! To which he replied 3:30 A.M. There several regulars and some asking for 'chai-doodh-kam',which was strange since it was machine tea! but the demand kept on coming. I had my filled and packed up half a dozen or giving some one needy, I didn't have trouble finding those people.
So, ended my weird morning prowl.
So much transpires in this world past my bed-time.
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