Starting my latest session of travelling for official purpose, I reached Nashik this time. Being a patient reader of my blog, you definitely deserve to know this fun fact that why this name “Nashik” is coined to this beautiful place.
The credit for coining this name goes to Surpnakha ma’am and our angry young man Laxman sir in the Treta yug. It sounds weird, isn’t it?
Ok, I am gonna put it fairly simple
Basically, I am referring to an incident in Ramayana. This was the place where Lord Laxman cut the nose (Nasika) of Supranakha as she was demanding something which was unacceptable for Laxman (Asking a married person to marry her that too in front of his elder brother. I mean she could have waited a little to put this proposal when Laxman was alone). Anyways, willingly or unwillingly Laxman had to put his sword across Supranakha’s nose. Since then this place is called Nashik as the legend says.
Like other trips, this time also I was accompanied with two of my colleagues. We took a bus from Ahmedabad in the evening and it was expected to reach Nashik in the early morning. Thanks to our alert team (of course including me) that in the morning when we woke up and enquired conductor of the bus about our location he told us that we were 30 km ahead of Nashik.
The driver and conductor gave us a what-a-bunch-of-idiots look. But then showing our extra-ordinary wisdom, we told them “Actually, you guys are idiots. You see, we paid for only Ahmedabad to Nashik and in the same fare, we travelled 30 km more. So this is your loss, fools.”
Anyhow, cursing the driver and conductor, we got down the bus and went on the opposite side of the road waiting for any vehicle coming from opposite direction which could take us back to Nashik. So, we stood there and started making that “please stop and take us to Nashik” gesture with left thumb up and slightly tilted to every vehicle which was passing by.
We were lucky that within 15 minutes we got a bus which was going towards Nashik. We hopped in and reached Nashik in next 40 minutes. So, little tired we reached a hotel. As soon as we entered, the faces of my two colleagues beamed. I assumed it was just because of the thought that they will get some rest now after that long journey. But later, as we entered into our assigned room, room-214, I realised that it was because of that beautiful receptionist whom they were planning to woo in their own ways which came quite obvious to me when I heard them talking about her.
This was how we started our first day...
