The Black Day

Day 16: 20/09/2011

We left from Jhansi early in the morning and targeted reaching Nagpur today. We chose the route that went via Saagar and were not too disappointed with our choice either. The roads were over all good with little bad patches from time to time. But everything was manageable until we reached Lalitpur in Madhya Pradesh (about 100 kms from Jhansi).

Wounded Kunal

Bad luck struck us at Lalitpur and one of our team members, Mr. Kunal Vora had an accident. We flagged down a small truck and it helped us to get Kunal from Lalitpur to Saagar, which was about 200 kms from there. Luckily, Dr. Chandresh Pasad's father has extremely good business relations around here and so, one of them, a kindly Mr. Naradji Jain helped us immensely with the situation at Saagar. He arranged for everything from the visit to doctor to X-Ray to arranging Kunal's return trip back to Bombay. Kunal had fractured his wrist joint and hence, unwillingly he had to go back home. We couldn't risk waiting for 10 more days and letting the condition worsen.

Joking at the time of adversity makes the troubles look small :)

Nagpur: 314 kms. Narsimhapur: 65 kms

The memorable Hotel Atithi

However, the show must go on. So, after having reassured ourselves that Kunal will be well taken care of and okay, we moved on. However, we couldn't reach Nagpur since we lost almost 4 hours of driving time in all the chaos. So, we decided to go upto Narsimhapur via Kareli on NH7 and stay the night there. Once again, another one of Dr. Pasad's father's business friend, Shri Ramuji Lunavat helped us a lot there and he welcomed us extremely warmly in his own hotel, Hotel Atithi. It was clear that we were "atithis" in the real sense of the term and were served with a lot of respect and love. Mr. Lunavat's son, Atul was also very friendly, appreciative of the trip and dined and chatted with us for a long time. We enjoyed a very memorable hospitality here and were kind of glad that we couldn't reach Nagpur. :P