A Train to Hyderabad - I

Finally I arrive home after my summer internship in Hyderabad. I have quite a time to pass without football,college library,cricket (T20 is not cricket; it is more of a baseball ) and such other pleasures of life. The only good thing in the nearest future is The Dark Knight Rises.

I reached Hyderabad via some unusual route which would be Kanpur to Ranchi, Ranchi to Chennai, Chennai to Bangalore and then Bangalore to Hyderabad all by rail due to reasons even more unusual than the route!! The Ranchi to Chennai journey was gruesome caused by the humid weather, non-stop sweating and nonsense talk by co-passengers who were going for some engineering examination in the South. The adventure from Bangalore to Hyderabad was far more adventurous with the weather being more pleasant and the debate match between a young man vs old man and his old sister regarding South Indian politics being cut short by the TT. I took a quick liking for Hyderabad after I was able to reach my provided accommodation from station by spending only Rs 13 for the bus travel of maybe 10kms. Things became even more beautiful when I found decent breakfast nearby @ Rs 10-12.

I found myself sharing an apartment with 3 CSE guys of IIT Hyderabad :Sumit Chuttani ( he does not like to be called by his surname), Rohit Jindal who is no relative of the Jindal Steel people, Rajan-an avid promoter of Indian Tobacco judging by the number of smokes he had each day! Two Piyush from my Mathematics department in IIT Kanpur joined us in the apartment later, one of whom left 7 days later after collecting his bag from the IDRBT people and playing a lot of poker in the apartment.

I got my Data mining project on “Particle Swarm Optimization trained Cascade Correlation Neural Networks and applications”. I distinctly remember looking passively at my professor when I was told about the project topic (unlike my friends who raised their eye-brows when I repeated the title). I settled in the room comfortably connected to the probably one of the most beautiful things of the world- the internet! 

The biggest news of the day was broken to me soon: Facebook and youtube are blocked on the LAN. The second biggest news of the day followed soon: Use TOR (an encrypted browser) to use fb and Vtunnel for youtube. LIKE A BOSS!!

Apparently the IDRBT guys were Hollywood fans and used access card for entering all the rooms. Before I was much aware of it I had nearly made a decent attempt to break open a door which neither appeared to be locked nor unlocked.  I loved the concept of some uniform person coming and serving us coffee or lemonade twice a day. I was also accompanied by lot of guys from IIT Kgp (Seemant Ujjain, Shresth Pratik, Deepak Bansal, Himanshu, Manish Anand, AbhinavYellanki, Nitesh) who broke the entire world into two variables called LOAD and PEACE and had only thing to say- kuch to machaya hai!! If i go on mentioning all the names i would look like this: A guy on radio on "Aap ki farmaish" programme saying "aur is gaane ki farmaaish ki hai Patna se Bittu, Chitu, Ballu, Sonu......aur unke saathiyo ne..."

 Initially the mess guys who served us chapattis using a spoon and a fork and wore white uniforms were not very pleased at us asking for more chapattis, but reluctantly gave to our demands after persistent demands and deceitful pilferage!! The mess people continued to surprise us with a big container of rasam each day at lunch and dinner. We failed to figure two things: What to consume the masala water aka Rasam with ?
How the fuck all of it got finished?!!?

Our first trip out in the city was to the Hyderabad Central and grand looking but good for nothing GVK one mall. I took good care not to invest money throughout the intern into crap like Jannat 2, Teri Meri Kahani, Shanghai, etc at the 'cash extracting machines' called Inox, imax, etc. I did watch Vicky Donor on  the lappy and liked it. We found some Rs 55 theatres with the sexiest seats you could imagine of ! There were sofa seats on which I sat with my legs folded cross on the seat and the cooler beside me blew winds from the Himalayas into my happy smiling face. I think it was one of our greatest discoveries in Hyderabad. We watched Rowdy Rathore and Gangs of Wasseypur there. Akshay Kumar sucks !!

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