The Taste of Freedom

Nowadays I am asking this question to everyone.Why? Well I am just free from the cruches of an Indian IT Services company and now I am a free bird.This means we are free to leave this job anytime we want without the fear of company chasing us down to extract a huge chunk of money from our a**es.

15 th August is a day when the world’s map changed in a major way.A nation of underdogs was born on that day.Well on the same day in the year 2005 we declared and signed our way to slavery of an Indian IT company.What began then was an endless roller coaster of corporate world.A journey through immense storms and tsunamis,and I have been standing solid like a rock trying to adjust myself.I failed actually, to make a place here,and hence I am trying to create a space of my own.

Well, coming back to the topic, we celebrated our liberation with the whole country and we decided to do it by going on a trip. We organized a trip to Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and the nearby waterfalls.

After all the delays despite our “Flawless” planning we started at 7:30 in the morning from Hyderabad.The drive was a full countryside view of Andhra Pradesh, which I had not been to till now. Surprisingly, in the place we stopped for breakfast,was a small town, almost a village,only it had some shops because of a regular highway,the people knew Hindi.The drive was smooth as I was looking at the scenery outside and flipping through the pages of a Ruskin Bond classic.

We had a nice time pulling each other’s leg on the way to the place.We halted at the west of the dam and looking at people playing there we also descended to play and click photographs.

We then proceeded to the main dam.When we reached there, the gates of the dam opened the water came out gushing at a monstrous speed raving and creating a huge white froth in the atmosphere immediate to the dam gates.What a breathtaking beauty it was.We stood there in amazement as we saw 8 gates open to the full capacity and water getting fiercer than ever.

We were cursing the weather as it was hot as compared to the previous days and continued in our journey further. Then we took a boat ride to Konda, a river Island of archaeological importance.A number of remains and relics were found there.

That journey took a toll on us as sun was hammering our heads with heat and the boat took it too long to reach the island.Also we were standing as there were a huge number of people interested in looking at the island(rather eat chicken biryani and drink whisky on the boat) which unfortunately offered nothing much special.Then last but not the least we went to the last spot of the day, the illuminated water falls, a beautiful place to be.The place was very nice and each one of us were wishing we had come here earlier rather than going on the boat ride.

In the return the dark had taken over the skies and when we passed in front of the dam for the last time, we saw a scene which we will never forget for whole of our lives.The froth generated from the water falling from the dam made a cloud of suspended water in the air and it looked as if it still, as if someone has  paused this cloud and it is lying suspended in the air.

It was silent journey back home but in the end we had great memories to cherish on our “Independece Day”.