Thursday 10 November 2011

The Centre of India

Day 17: 21/09/2011

We left Narsimhapur early this morning. We had to reach Nagpur soon as the Nagpur KVO group was waiting for us and had made some arrangements to receive us. Already because of the previous delay, we couldn't reach Nagpur the previous night and that had slightly disturbed our schedule as well as that of the Nagpur KVO members.

As we started approaching the Maharashtra border, forest area began to get a bit denser. So, the roada were bad again. But it was just a short stretch of about 30 kms which was the most horrible. Everything else was pretty manageable. We finally reached Nagpur at around 1:30 pm and found that the enthusiastic Nagpur KVO members were already waiting for us at Hotel Gomati, just near the outskirts of Nagpur. Already, with their love, enthusiasm and guidance, we were able to chose the best route from Narsimhapur upto Nagpur.

After having picked us up from Hotel Gomati, they escorted us to the Kutchhi Bhavan for freshening up and then, we went out for lunch. Their love, warmth and respect greatly boosted our morale, which was a bit sagging after the previous day's sad events. However, where one member of our gang left us, another new member was added for a short while to lift up our spirits. Mr. Deepak Savla's son, Ruchit joined us here for a few days.

The Nagpur KVO group had really arranged for some fabulously interesting conversations later. But, since we were bound by our target and had already lost a significant amount of time in the past, we moved on. Mr. Bharat Savla and his wife, Mrs. Bhavna Savla came with us for until some distance just to keep us company and also to show us some interesting things on the way, which we would have missed if they hadn't come with us. They took us to a special place, called Zero point - which is exactly the centre of our country. We can see the "0" on the milestone depicting that it's the centre of India. We were very grateful to Mr. and Mrs. Savla for introducing it to us.

After we moved on towards Hyderabad, we finally stayed at a place called Pandharkavda when it was late.