A JOURNEY BY BUS
v Points: Introduction – Boarded a
Sukkur bound bus – Crowd in the bus – Hyderabad – Moro – Neshrow Feroz –
Khairpur – Conclusion.
v As soon as our college closed for winter, I began to make
necessary preparations for going home. Our family resides at Sukkar where my
father is a lawyer. I make my journeys to and from Sukkar by train. Some of my
class-mates hail from Khairpur. They pressed hard that this time I should go to
Sukkar by bus via Khairpur. The suggestion appealed to me and I agreed.
v Early next morning we boarded a Sukkur-bound bus at the bus stand
near Al-Karam Square. The bus was then almost empty and we thought that we
would have a very pleasant journey. Just at the scheduled time of start, the
bus moved a few steps and stopped and waited there for five minutes during
which time it became full to its sanctioned capacity. We hoped that as the
journey was long, the bus would run on and on and would not allow any other
passengers to get in.
v The bus moved forward and stopped near Shorab Ghot. Some persons
were waiting there, for the bus with their heavy load to be carried to Sukkur.
These were taken on the roof and the passengers were allowed in. We and other
passengers were requested to make room for the new-comers. We complied with the
request, but not with a very charitable heart.
v The bus then ran very swiftly stopping here and there when a
passenger waived his hand to stop it. In this way the bus was overwhelmingly
full. The crowd was now so great that we began to perspire even in the morning
time of the day.
v At Hyderabad the bus stopped for ten minutes. Many passengers got
down to buy some eatables. All of a sudden there were helpless cries from a
passenger who said that he had been pick pocketed for an amount of Rs.480/- As
there was no way for tracing the culprit, he had to console himself with
grumbling heart and the bus ran.
v At Moro the bus stopped for about fifteen minutes. We availed
ourselves of this opportunity in having tea and some refreshment in a posh
restaurant. Some years back it was an ordinary sub-divisional town, but it is
no longer so. A well-equipped hospital together with the schools and colleges
have made the place very important.
v The bus again started with full speed. From there the journey was
really a pleasant one. The crowd inside the bus was in no way very intolerable.
We then reached Neshrow-Feroz. This is also a noted place. With its big
religious institution, it offers religious educational facilities to thousands
of students. This institution was founded sometime in the nineteenth century.
v From Neshrow-Feroz we reached Khairpur at about 5.P.M. Here my
friends took leave of me after they had failed to induce me to stay with them
for a day or two.
v After leaving Khairpur, the bus proceeded on and on with heavy
loads of goods and passengers. At last it reached Sukkur after ten hours of
journey.
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