Rajahmundry – it’s in Andhra Pradesh




Well no shortage of animals here – cows, goats, pigs, the whole range and to top it there is Pushpi wherever I go. (Hehe sorry dude but then animals are nice aren't they?) But then this place gave so much of more stuff to write about that animals had to take a back seat.
Reality checks, blowouts and somewhere in between loads of fun and driving down highways with loud Gult music.
Day off in Rajahmundry, rush off to Hyderabad. For a reality check. Now don't get me wrong, Hyderabad is no Mumbai (I just love that place) but after the Assams and God knows where elses, the ability to sit in a Café Coffee Day at 6 in the morning (how I got there at that hour is not important), to go to a multiplex and then sit at night in a pub, swigging beer while listening to some awesome music was like pure bliss. This is Nirvana.
Now back to Rajahmundry and the most exciting thing in ONGC since going to the middle of the ocean (offshore rig). We saw a blowout. This is one of those huge fires that happen in oil and gas wells. Flames over 150 feet high, heat can be felt well over a km away. Great spectacle of nature's fury at its best. Your typical once in a lifetime experience stuff.
And well here also life's hierarchy was at work. Policemen were busy pushing aside villagers while senior government officials (district magistrates, revenue officials) and politicians (how could they be far away) drove up, looked, smiled around, waved their hands and then went back. Times like this you wish a couple of these guys could be roasted over one such fire.
Anyway all trips to such places were in the company of a young driver, Krishna, who loved listening to loud Gult music. On one such trip, swaying to the music we saw the amazing sight of a truck marked HP gas (supposed to carry LPG cylinders) carrying a lot of vegetables. Now this one is for all those vegetarians – the only interpretation I could get is that eating vegetables causes gas and at high pressures, so TAKE THAT!!!

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