An Inside Watch

It was Sunday and it was a lazy day. So we, my wife and me along with our little princess, decided to make it a little happening. So we set out for a ride!

Although there is no shortage of places to enjoy but we chose a rather simple one. It was the crossing of NH-2 with G. T. Road near Rasulpur station. Here the two roads separate from each other to reach their destination or meet to walk together, the difference is in which side of the crossing you are in. That place is neither very beautiful nor it has a tremendous piece of engineering to show off, but I don't know why it seems very romantic to me. I explained the situation to my wife and she, as she always do, agreed to venture there.

At first I thought to go by our car, but my wife preferred to go by bike. The distance was nearly 20 km so a bike like Bajaj Pulser would not be a bad choice either. So the preparation was done, and journey began.

On our way I show her recent developments around that part of our city, countless shops of infamous 'Langcha', which belongs to Shaktigarh and the Railway Junction at Shaktigarh. Here the railway tracks are devided into two, namely Main line (which pass through Bandel Junction) and Chord line (which pass through Dankuni Junction). Once this place used to have heavy traffic jam due to non availability of flyover and frequent arrivals of train from and to those two lines. But the problem was solved by constructing two flyovers, one for the motor vehicles and the other for Up Main line trains. As the flyover and bypass resolves the problem of heave traffic jam, it created a unique problem for the local people. The main Shaktigarh market which was famous for numerous Langcha shops was suffering from non-availability of surpassing Customers. Gradually the shop owners changed their place of business and re-established beside the bypass which certainly made this place a half-deserted one. (I feel this is the reason why the people of Panagarh, an another city in Burdwan which suffers from heavy traffic jam, denied the proposal of a bypass. Cause once the bypass would be ready most of the vehicles will avail it and gradually the present market of Panagarh would die, because Panagarh itself does not have that many population upon which such a large market can sustain.)

Then came the Pulsit station where the vicinity of the Highway and railway tracks are so close that if someone jumps from the train he would land on a surpassing vehicle on that highway. But our destination was a little ahead. After passing Pulsit the Highway devides into two. One goes directly to Kolkata, and the other continues its journey parallel to the mighty Hooghly river to Kolkata too. Here the elevation of another flyover gives a very distant view of both roads and the surrounding background, covered in green grasses and agricultural field.. Everytime I saw this place a thought comes to me, these roads seemed to me as departed lovers, being forced by the situation they had to take different routes for their journey, but simultaneously they hoped to meet again when they reached their destination.

............ to be continued.