The story dates back to 4th Feb 2009. All the colleges in Tamil Nadu were closed because of student's eruption all over the state regarding LTTE,against state government(i dunno the underlying cause). But there was one university ,which was concerned about students, specially 4th years(regarding their course and project completion),i.e. SASTRA University and I m proud to be a part of it.They were not announcing long leave,instead they were intimating day by day.
But students wanted to go to their native places and they created some sort of chaos in front of VC.As a result we all got 4 days leave,i.e. 5-8 feb,and students were allowed to leave the hostel at maximum by 10:00 pm.I got this news a bit late(at 9.20 pm).Initially I said a straight no to my friends who asked me to go home.I told them its stupid(4800 kms to n fro).Then we heard a rumour that academic activities will be suspended till 15th feb.All of a sudden my mind drifted towards the positive side of it. The first thought was "I can attend my sister's marriage scheduled on 14th, which I was earlier going to miss".Without wasting any time i started packing(i m very bad in arranging stuff,my friends Utkarsh n Gaurav helped me through that).I was ready to leave by 10:30pm.
Here comes the tragic part,we reached college gate at 10:45pm,late by 45 minutes.We were instructed not to leave till next morning.But we had our train scheduled at 02:40 am and we cant afford to miss that bcoz the next train to our destination was only after after 24hrs.
But security guards refused all our requests.Our chief warden was following us on his bicycle to make sure that we return to our hostel only.At that point of disappointment we all were dull, until our friend GPP told us that some students are evading from the narrow path between two hostels and no major obstruction is deployed there.This trap door was just like a yummy pizza served to one,who was starving from months.
Me along with Aman and Mahesh started to walk our way a bit fast,and tried to get out of sight of our warden as soon as possible.We escaped somehow through that path and started running to cross the boundary of our college.But we were hell lot of scared to do so,because if we were caught,we would directly be suspended from hostel.It was a test of our stamina.While running i got hit by my strolly on my leg.I started panting.Because of that blow,the rest of escape process became a draconian task for me.When we stepped out of the boundary we started to walk slowly so that we remain unnoticed.God tested us on every aspect that day.One stray dog started barking on us,giving us all the attention which we were trying to avoid and it also totally freaked me out(I m afraid of dogs,this is the first time I m telling this publicly).
But somehow i kept my cool and we successfully escaped and got the bus to Trichy.Believe me we were feeling as good as a prisoner who successfully escaped from Tihar Jail.
As i mentioned earlier the day was still going bad for us as no seats were available in our train and TT was not ready to accept any of our excuses.So we traveled in General Compartment for 2 days.But we forgot all the pain when we reached our hometown.
That was the most unexpected and adventurous journey of my life.