Every journey begins
with missions and there are sacrifices to be made. It’s hard to leave behind
beloved friends and family. It’s harder when I have to face traumatized
behavior of new people and place. I was excited taking flight with bliss
experiencing completely new feelings but also sad to see the disappearance of
beautiful valleys with meandering rivers and green hilly mountains. Landing at
Kolkata and taking another flight to Hyderabad let me recollect all kinds of
pollutions, noise being the most disturbing.
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| Kolkotta Airport |
I felt guilty unable to
respond to the polite greetings of air hostess. There’s lot to learn from their
politeness in our daily attitude.
Knowledge about JNTUH
as premier university and toughest in academic prompted me to be extra careful
and sincere was I then to be the first to report and do admission as
international students but the idea completely bewildered me when we are asked
to go back to our country and report back after one and a half month. Miscommunication
among concerning agencies was then the cause of our suffering when they don’t
have any support for accommodation despite our repeated enquiries and earnest
request. Most irritating was when they kept us waiting and told us to come back
the next day. With so much hope we exchanged mails with RCSC, EdCIL, RUB and
JNP to help us convince JNTUH and get us at least accommodation to the earliest
but was hopeless to learn there’s no accommodation which contradicts to their
provisional award statements. Victims are we then to simply face the
difficulties when everyone tries to be at safer side of their actions.
Travelling more than 50
kilometers a day by auto and landing up entering expensive restaurants for lunch cost
us half of our 5 months stipend just to get admission letter and almost all our
stipend gone when we finally shifted to our new private owned hostel which cost
us Rs.18, 000 per month. Friends from my homeland staying here are kind enough
to feed us with breakfast and dinner until then.
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| Nehru Zoological Park |
Nevertheless, we tried staying
away from those albatross sometimes and have good times as well.
We were received by
Bhutanese working in Hyderabad along with few undergraduate students. Strangers
are we to meet at Rajeev Gandhi Airport and went so close like brothers within
no time. That’s the real charm of being Bhutanese, having to stay away from
home.
Visiting new places is
what I always love to do and so the planning never fails. Hussain Sagar Lake
with famous standing Buddha stupa was our first destination followed by Nehru
Zoological Park the following day. Usually, Buddha Stupa and Churches are found
where everyone can come easily for worship but here is business for some,
entertainment for many and very little or none there to worship. Riding board
was exciting but seeing the kind of strange scenario was abhorrent.
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| Hussain Sagar Standing Buddha |
Nehru Zoological Park
was big enough to compare with Thimphu City with diverse biodiversity. Creativity
and hard work to create such amazing place was appreciable but sad to see animals
and birds under fencing and cage like they are in the prison. Sacrifices of
animals are the business of people and it’s very sad to see different world
than I assumed.
I have also visited
Malls and Big Bazars and Vishal Market is still on my list. There’s nothing we
can’t get at Hyderabad but the money matters. For last 10 days I have been
seeing the world so different and I am now preparing to look at it very differently
for I have to adjust with this world for next two years.
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| Zoo |
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