A Nightmare – A Post from The Past
(Since I mentioned a previous nightmare in the last post, I am re-publishing an entry from my previous blog, Initially, the post was published on 20.08.05)
I am alone. I am lonely. Something is bothering the heart. I cannot place it. I am on this main road. A famous one. Darbar Marg. It is raining. It is night. There is no one on the road. Across, in the middle, there is a fountain. Somone is standing with an umbrella. I know that person. I dont go towards him. But sing aloud enough to attract attention. I want the person to know my presence but simultaneously dont want to talk to him.
I enter a shop. A showroom. It is open. It has a way through a door to adjacent shop. I wasnt aware of this. The entire effect is surreal. Sleep interrupts. I am walking through connecting doors. I am at a urinal. I can feel the liquid gurgle in my bladders. I dont stop. I notice another door.
Again sleep intervenes. Haze.
Door opens to a five star hotel lobby. Plush. If I was correctly following the way between the shops, I know this hotel. It looks different. This is plush. Polished marbles. Uber large but comfortable waiting seats. I move out of huge revolving doors. The city outside looks different. No rain. It is twilight. I see a green-yellow bus. DTC. The flyover is four-lane. It is smooth. It is wide. I stop a passerby. Which city is this? He looks curiously at me, and grunts – Delhi. I am shocked. How did I reach here? But Delhi looks different. I curiously view the hotel name. Taj Le Meridien. Merger of two large chains. When did this happen? I ask same passerby – what date and year? 2015, he replies gruffly and walks off. I stare dumbly behind him. I turn. I catch my reflection on the polished granite of hotel wall. My face is not mine.
(Courtesy – Juneli, for reminding me the exact date of the original entry)
Thursday, 22. February 2007 16:56
gold here… i somehow don’t remember this post… looks like the beginning of a time travel movie though!
Thursday, 22. February 2007 17:13
So the post is here
I remember it very well and I also remember that what were the comments….. I hope you too remember those long long comments
Thursday, 22. February 2007 22:53
lol..
.. Hw will that happen by 2015? lol 
a few years only left…
I hadn’t read it in your earlier blog…
DTC bus in 2015 too..:-)
You face is not yours
Thursday, 22. February 2007 22:54
You writing style has also changed quite a lot since then…20.08.05…
Saturday, 24. February 2007 15:47
too good DJ … but DTC in 2015 … may be a express tube with green and yellow colors would make more sense – after all that’ll also be part of DTC …
Saturday, 24. February 2007 18:29
Hmm..So this is Deepak Jeswal?I have been hearin’ so much about ur blogs n finally here i m.Not bad!!Not bad at all!!!Yet to read a lot..This is only jus the beginnin’.Will get back again..once i m thru’..
Sunday, 25. February 2007 3:55
yaad aa gaya mujhko guzra zamaana!!!
yup..i read this post on ur previous blog..
Monday, 26. February 2007 9:29
Anks – Gold aapka
Juneli – Yep I read the comments as well when i brought the post here
Navjot – Wouldn’t call this my ‘natural’ writing style, so it could be different. And 2015 is not that far off, I guess DTC buses wud be there then too.
Abhishek – In eight years I doubt Delhi can come with ‘express tube’ – that’s the normal lead time for any project in India to take shape on papers
BTW, welcome back here
Taarika – This is flattering – and I hope u hv heard all good things. An extremely warm welcome to you on my space. Do keep coming back.
Gaurav – I am surprised as to how many people actually remember the post. Thanks