Lohagad Fort - Trekking

Lohagad Fort (Marathi: लोहगड, Iron fort): One of the many hill forts in Maharashtra which is good for Trekking (especially for team outing), alone you will be bored. It is situated near to Lonavala and around 52 KM from Pune and 1,033 m above sea level. Recently we (Equity Team) visited this place and covered all things – Waterfall, Cave and Lohagad fort within the time frame of 9 hours.

Depicting Our Journey below:

Multiple hearing happened during office time where Automation Tester was chanting every day “Chalo Na, Chalo Na” so finally our trip advisor has prepared an itinerary of Lohagad for us. Even though automation tester was not happy because for her it was closet to Pune and she already visited last year (Cave only but was in hallucination that she visited Lohagad... Lol).

Trekking Planning started from first day of last week and finalized at Friday after searching lot of places around Pune whom we could visit. Day before our journey, plan was in place and everyone was aware about what they need to carry and when they need to reach Pimpri Station. Received thumps up from all the members on WhatsApp and waiting for early morning to kick off this journey.

Early morning, I left my bed at 4:30 AM after stopping two sequential alarm clocks – 4:05 AM and 4:15 AM & did my daily chores. At 6:30, I started giving miss call or call to our team and their responses were – Automation Tester: “Abhi Aur Sona hain… 8:00 baje pahuch jayenge station”, recently promoted Jr.QA: Called 3-4 times full ring but no response then after some interval, one WhatsApp ping – “Main 7:15 Tak Uth Jaungi” and Our Trip advisor – Woke at 6:30 and texted “GM” message on WhatsApp.

Reached Pimpri station at 8:05 PM due to some Palki at Shagun Chowk; got late 5 min. I saw Our Trip Advisor was there and already taken 4 tickets (Pimpri to Lonavala – Local) but our late comers (Automation and Jr. QA tester) they started their journey at 8:05 AM from Pimple and reached station 5 min prior. Train arrived at 8:30 AM on Platform 2 and we took General Coach, after some efforts or Talegaon station we all got the seats.

We stopped our journey at Malavli station and did “One Team” photography prior to start the long journey by walk. Took right from the station and reached to bridge (Expressway – Pune to Mumbai), we thought to do some snacks like Poha and Vadapav but skipped it and continued walking in right side direction from the bridge. While walking we enjoyed a lot “I think first time equity team covered this much distance (Approx. 1+ KM) by walk together”- Some background song was encouraging us “Akele Akele Kaha Ja Rahe Ho Hume Saath Le Lo Jahan Ja Rahe ho”, at one point saw two little baby Dear and flocks of Desi MurgiJ (Savan Chal Raha Tha Warna Chicken Tandoori Hoti), both side of the road was covered with greenery which was reminding me my ancestor’s village.

After walking 30 min, we reached at Initial point (Place was good, Waterfall in the front and Hanuman Temple] where we did “Halka Pulka Breakfast” – Poha and Chai. [For others – Local shopkeepers were making good profit from Visitors/ Trekkers. Cost of 1 Plate Poha was 25 RS and that was not enough for single person]. After finishing our breakfast we were supposed to move toward Lohagad but moved toward Cave [Always take expert advice from someone who already visited that place]. Automation Tester who already visited Cave last year and was in hallucination state that she visited Lohagad wherever she not even touched the feet of Lohagad Fort.

Took Entry Pass for Cave (On Ticket: 5 RS/- mentioned but they have stamped 15 RS/-, don’t know where the extra 10 were goingJ. Visited Cave thoroughly and did lot of photography there. View was awesome : Left side : Bhaja Cave - The Buddhist excavations at Bhaja, also known as Bhaja caves, date almost to the 1st century AD and are believed to be one of the oldest Buddhist religious centres in this area. Very well maintained and cleaned as compared to other tourist attraction place. Right Side: Steep slope with green grass and a narrow track to go to Waterfall and connecting to Main road (Short Cut – Those who love trekking, they would like such path). Front Side: Beautiful Waterfall

We were little tired by climbing the stairs to see the cave so initial thought came that we would skip the plan to go to Lohagad fort but slowly-slowly we started enjoying the nature and followed the risky narrow path to go waterfall & main road. In between we took a 10 min halt for some refreshment and thought to make new episode of Shavdhan India (Because Wohi Purana Episode Dekh Dekh Kar Bore Ho Chuke The), Automation tester was too silent during that journey; maybe she would also thinking in the same line. If suppose in worst case that we even tried to make the episode then subject would be – Shavdhan India: QA v/s Automation Tester Ki Jalan. 

Crossed the little-little hurdles and did photo-shoot of waterfall with great model (Jr. QA tester). After 15-20 min walking we touched the main road from where we took Toyota Qualis car and requested some more person to join us so that budget would be shared, at last it was cost around 50 RS per head and reached the base of Lohagad fort where we did a short of lunch (Bhutta and Boiled egg) and prepared Bhel from the stuffs which we carried from our home. We started climbing the stairs to go to apex of the fort; having tasty Bhel in parallel. In between – We saw Red-Faced Monkey and feed some Bhel; it was really amazing experience when they were picking the Murmura from their little hand from my hand. Slowly-Slowly we reached at Ganesh Dwar (that was first door) and then at final door (Hanuman Dwar). 

In between we experienced lots of things:

·        Initial & Final Stair steps were good but in b/w path was very terrible; somewhere allowed only one person to go at a time but in India we know that we all were in hurry so people were not stopping and giving space to others until and unless tragedy won’t happen.

·        In between when we reached at certain height then decide to do photo-shoot, Weather was too good; we were covered with fog and moving cloud. I tried some Khatroon K Khiladi pose and shots were taken by our trip advisor.

We reached at the top of the fort at around 2:20 PM; from where view was astounding and enjoyed the ON/OFF rain, nature, scenery and stopped at Rani Raja Graveyard. When rain stopped for some minutes then we did some photography, masti and video shoot but missed one more attempt to make Shavdhan India Episode. Honestly speaking life time view captured from eyes which won’t be easily erased. After spending around 30-40 minutes, We decided to go to Station directly from fort but plan was keep changing throughout the Journey so one condition had put in the front of all – If we were able to reach to base of fort prior to 3:30 PM then will go else station and skip the plan for Waterfall.

All of sudden, positive energies started flowing inside everyone and seems all were curious to visit Waterfall. We reached at Base prior to the deadline time and took Toyota Qualis Car and requested one group to join us. That group was good; they were passing the comments – Ek Dushre Pe. Driver stopped his car at first waterfall spot and then we walked around 5-10 min to reach to Main Waterfall which we saw initially starting the journey. I changed my get up and we decided to start climbing the rocks by naked feet but it was too slippery because of continuous water flow and fungus. We were not in condition to make one step on rock so wore the shoes.

To reach at top of the waterfall by crossing all midway hurdles, I decided to lead the team and guided them to follow my foot-steps. We people were feeling like that we are By Birth Rock Climber, helping hand by hand – Reached to main spot of the waterfall and enjoyed the bathing under an extreme waterfall. After bathing the next challenge how we would get down because it looks too dangerous. Jr. QA tester followed my instructions and reached safely to the ground without experiencing any slide but Automation tester slipped a lot (around 4-5 times) because of new branded shoes.

Did some photo-shoots where I looked like an English man because tanning was removed for some time :) (Hypothetical Khushi Ho Rahi Thi). We took auto-rickshaw and reached station at 4:48 PM, next train was at 5:28 PM.

We all were hungry so I prepared boiled Chana Salad by adding or mixing all the ingredients (Tomato, Onion, Coriander, Chat Masala, Jal Jeera Powder and Lemon) which we were carrying with us. At last we had this tasty salad and boarded in local train at 5:35 PM & reached to Pimpri Station at 6:30 PM.

Some memories of Lohagad are locked below:

Title: Lohagad Trekking Memories

Date: 30/07/2016

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLpSSpoU6LM

Thanks to Automation Tester , Trip Advisor or Planner and SSE QA Tester for making this equity team outing  successful. Hoping we would have many more on the way!!!

Learning / Suggestion:

·         If anyone of you planning to visit Lohagad fort then start your journey at around 6:00 or 7:00 AM and try to go to Lohagad fort directly because at top there are lot of sites or points which will attract you a lot.

·         Try to wear a shoe which has a good grip because somewhere path is too slippery.

·         Always carry first-aid kit (especially Volini Spray or gel).

·         Carry some snacks and water bottle, along with some energy drink.

·         Taking selfie is good but try to avoid taking these shots at the edge of the top because it is too dangerous, due to continues rainfall at the peak or fog; surface at the edge is not hard.

MadFest 2016 !!!

MadFest (All For Fun; Fun For All): A few weeks ago, we had secured one more season of MadFest with grand celebration.  Hope you enjoyed all the events along with your work. Firstly I would like to say thanks to all of you for actively participating and watching this space.

I am penning down some memorable moments which were captured during the season and about the genesis of MadFest.

Well someone said correctly that MadFest is a festival or platform to show your madness in public. Individually we show our Madness or Masti with whom; we are very close, but madness together with new faces is different. MadFest was started in Morgan Account, Capgemini, Pune at 2008 and great mind behind this; was given by Ravi Punjabi. He would be feeling proud to see this initiative at that degree because in general when we start any new things, then we never assume that it would go at that extent.

Since 2008, 7 seasons are completed successfully. Each & every year new things are getting evolved and competition adopted tougher rules because of new evolving talents. In parallel some people created remarkable records which would be hard for others to break it. Would you like to know about that person? He is a well-known person and his captaincy is the example. 5 times in a row, his team won the MadFest trophy, but now he has taken “Sanyas” from the coach position and decided to be a part of Core team only. I hope you guessed that person , but let me add his name here for others – “Himanshu Gupta”

Moving to next two faces “Manjunath and Ram” – Main executor of all the events in collaboration with Core team member (including planning, brainstorming, logistic arrangement, implementation, scoring and reporting). Sometime it seems that they are also following the SDLC or STLC process in the eventsJ. There are many more people as well, but above four are persistent from long time.

Let me share my view on MadFest, Initially when I got to know about this festival...First thought came to my mind “Waste of time”, but I was wrong. Slowly-Slowly each event added more enthusiasm and started enjoying the fun. Now MadFest is on my vein…

MadFest is a festival, whosoever win is the secondary element, but primarily it binds us with an invisible thread of friendship, mutual understanding, team spirit and many more. It provides us an opportunity to interact with new people and work together even though we are sailing different boats. It provides us a platform to showcase our hidden talent and achieve a common goal.

Have you ever noticed that how much productive we are? Let me explain here… Generally if someone will ask you for coffee, snacks or team activities at your odd time, then we mostly deny with saying these facts that “I have lot of works and calls…. I need to provide production support… I have a release this week so need to complete the testing or development” but… During the MadFest time we do effective time management & complete our tasks prior to the events and participate it without hampering the deliverable even though situation as same as previous.

This is the event where audience enjoys a lot as compared to participants. They cheers for their team, motivate them and sometime also doing expert commentaries for other team. I do remember few of those commentaries; will add below after some para... MadFest event reached new height of success, not because of participants only… the main key player of MadFest; according to me is audience – Without their support and feedback there is no way to achieve it.

This year MadFest 2016 included below list of events:

·         Rangoli  & Traditional Dress Competition

·         Carrom Board

·         Tug of War

·         Cricket

·         Cubical Decoration

·         Dumb Charades

·         One Min Game

·         Morgan Got Talent

·         Quiz

·         Antakshri

Last year, we had – Killer Chess, Table Tennis, Treasure Hunt (in place of above highlighted). Let’s move to some expert comments which are whispered during the events:

Traditional Dress:

·         When a lady entered with Orissa traditional get up & showing her performance to judge– then we people at backstage were doing the mimicry – How to make a cup of tea? (Writing here in short but we did in detailed).

·         When BajiRao entered then we did “Telebrand ad about hair loss & product”

·         When Sardar Ji entered then we did mimicry of Sunny Deol Paaji – Famous dialogues of film Gadar, Damini and etc. e.g. – “Hindustan zindabaad”, “Taarik Pe Taarik Pe Taarik Milti Rahi Mujhe Is Account Me Judge Sahab but Insaaf nhi mila – Pehli Taarik ko Ek project ka kaam Dete hain .. Dushri taarik ko dushra project aur appraisal end me mil jati hain ek nayi taarik”

Cricket:

·         Bowler thoda dhyan se batsman KO gussa aagaya to tera account or RSA token deactivate ho jayega…

·         Final match, we had one Etihasik Over during that time – Comments from other team for their batsman (woman) – Yahi over hain bus khade raho apni jagah apne aap jeet jayenge …

Esha over baar baar nhi milega …

Tug of War:

·         Some body builders were also participated – comment for them: Kya bhai 15 ande & chicken khane k baad bhi rassi kheech nhi paye…

·         Match was happening b/w different team and people were shouting YOLO YOLO…

Note: Please take the above comments on lighter note; there is no personal grudge with anyone. The above elements are the part of fun.

There are many things to share with you all but space is limited. Before closing, this chapter I would like to draw your attention on one point – One of my project team member, she was in Titan team and told me that this time you people didn’t win because “HG” was not in your team (She was referring to Himanshu Gupta, last year Himanshu was in our team (Morgan Flyers) and we won. Maybe she concluded because of the past records of HG) but this time Titan also won because of HG factor (Harshpal Gandhi). In short wherever we have HG factor that team is taking the trophy J

To make MadFest 2016 moments memorable forever for all of you; I have compressed all the memories of the events (which I have taken around 6+ GB) into 600 MB video and making it public so that you can refer the below link any time. Here we go:- 

Details: 
Title : MadFest 2016
Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktne3VoUi0A

Thanks to all of you for watching this space. If you really like this post & video then please do share your feedback or memories on below comment section because it is valuable for us. I will be waiting for your response …

Maa : My God !!!

Mother’s Day (Hindi: Maa Divas) is one of the special; among all other days of my life including my birthday, first job etc. Long time ago someone asked me few questions on the same day that was “Define Maa and her importance in your life”. At that time my response was “Maa is my god and her value in my life is endless”

If this question would ask during my engineering time, then I am confident that for us 32 pages answer sheet won’t be enough to answer this single question and we all will be passed in single attempt without any study (BTW “Shivani” Bhi Hum Engineer’s Ki Dushri Maa Jaise Hi Hain, Jishne Engineering me Humara Khayal Rakha :D – This context is applicable for all the engineers who have done his/her engineering from RGPV University)

During the course of my life I have come across with many people and also captured their thoughts on this space, honestly speaking that is “Mind Blowing”.

We people are sharing a very good space with our mother and bonded together, which is unbreakable. If anyone would ask you “Whose voice is best; you have ever heard” (Don’t give an initial thought of your girl/boyfriend, wife/husband etc.) because no voice is better than your mother’s voice. There is a fact behind that:

“Prior to landing in this world, a baby develops the capability to recognize the voice of his/her mother. That’s why after taking birth; he/she starts responding to their mother’s voice because they are already familiar of that pleasant touch and voice”

Now I would to like share a real fact in conjunction with my short fiction story on this special day, so let’s begin:

Once upon a time there was a farmer in a small village around the city - Varanasi {Old name: Banaras}. He was working hard in his ancestor’s field with his wife and trying to manage home with limited money whatever they earned. In his family there were 3 members including him - “Shanti” (his daughter – 14 years old) and “Prabha” (his wife).

Shanti was very beautiful and sharp girl. She wanted to study in a good school, but very well aware about the financial condition of her family. Therefore she never demanded anything from her parents. She continued her schooling beneath the tree.  She was good in Sanskrit, Hindi and Mathematics (Hindi: Ganit) and always scored good marks on these subjects. She knew cooking, gardening, agricultural things and always helping her mother at her home.

One day when farmer went to town to sell his vegetables then coincidentally he came across with a Pandit who was searching a bride for a young boy. He inquired little bit more about that boy, his family. Pandit had shared the detailed input – (Young boy “Pramod” 20 years old, lost his parents 2 years ago, having 2-3 fields for agriculture and also a farmer). Farmer had requested to Pandit to initiate the talk for his daughter’s marriage with Pramod. Pandit initiated the tread; both families accepted it and Shanti & Pramod tied in a single knot.

Newly married couple started their new phase of life happily and see sight they completed their first anniversary. One day when Pramod returned home from field and he didn’t find Shanti anywhere. He checked with his neighbor and nearby people, but no information received. Later sometime he saw that Shanti was coming with “AmaaJi”. AmaaJi was a well-known Vadhiya (Ayurvedic Doctor) at his village. Pramod was little bit angry, but his angriness turned into happiness when he heard good news from Shanti that was “They would become parents in some months”.   

Pramod was very excited to welcome his new baby so whenever he got the opportunity to visit “Varanasi” then he bought the toys. Shanti’s parents were eager to meet her daughter and her mother planned to stay with her daughter for some months so that she will get rest from her daily tasks during that period. Weekend came, Pramod travelled to Shanti’s home which was situated opposite side of the river Ganga (and the normal mode of communication was only boat to reach that place).

Shanti’s parents welcomed Pramod and packed their bags with load of fruits, sweets and small clothes which Prabha had made for her grandson. While returning a cyclone came & boat sank.  All the passengers lost their life.

This heartbreak moment had changed everything; Shanti had lost her parents & husband. She didn’t want to live after that and decided to end her life, but AmaaJi supported and explained “Ending your life would be easy step for you, but think about the unborn baby who had never seen the world yet and also last sign of Pramod”. Shanti controlled herself and decided to continue her life just for her baby.

She sold her father’s property and decided to use that money for a year. One day she got pain and informed AmaaJi. AmaaJi came with some other ladies and supported her at her tough time. Later evening her house was started echoing with cry sound of a baby boy “Kailash”. Shanti lost everything at her early age and knew that coming time & life would be rigid. She decided to resume the agriculture work of her husband after 6 months because that was the only source to generate the money and feed the family.

Every day she used to go to field with Kailash and put him in temporary Jhula [English: Swing] beneath the tree (handmade Jhula which normally villager’s prepared using their saree) and continue her agriculture work. Few years had flown by following the same routine and on another side “Kailash” was also growing rapidly. See sight Kailash turned 5 and started going school in his village. He was cute and sharp boy; easily grasp the things.

As soon he developed the capability to understand the world & circumstances then he realized that his mother had done lot of sacrifices, faced tough time and worked hard for him and survival. He wanted to support his mother at agriculture work, but Shanti didn’t allow him. Shanti wanted her son to focus on his education only and fulfill the dream of his father. For higher education, she shifted Kailash to Varanasi so that he would get better quality of education and independent life to handle the day to day circumstance. Shanti sold two agriculture fields of her husband for her son’s education.

Kailash prepared his mindset to do something bigger for his mother and started working day & night to achieve the goal. He used to write a letter every day to his mother and on another side Shanti became happy after reading the letter. In case postman forgot to deliver the letter at her home, then she reached to post office in order to collect it.

Kailash completed his schooling with flying colors and got selected in B.H.U University for graduation. See sight 4 years completed, he got placed in one of the company. Not a single day, he missed to write a letter to his mother during his graduation & schooling time. Prior to joining the company he planned to visit his hometown after 6 years. He visited his hometown instead of going home; he directly reached to field where his mother used to work. He saw his mother working on the field under the extreme sunlight; tears automatically started coming out from his eyes.

His surprise visit added more happiness and smile on his mother’s face. He stayed there 1 week and supported his mother on agriculture work. He requested his mother to sell everything and shift to new place where he got the joining. Shanti replied “This place is not a normal; your father had spent his entire life here and built this.” She blessed her son for his future life and asked him to write a letter every day.

Kailash joined the new firm and gained the confidence of his management. All the people in his firm were very impressed with Kailash’s nature; work, Out of box thinking and dedication. He got the opportunity to go onshore for 2 years for project purpose and worked very well there. Every day he used to call to his mother at post office on fixed time frame. After completing his tenure there, he returned and planned to take 2 months LOP in order to do some pending task at his home.

He visited his birthplace and used that money which he earned at onshore in order to build a temple and small permanent house for her mother. After completion of temple and house; he arranged inauguration function where he invited all the villagers. People gathered for this function and appreciated for everything which he did for village and his mother. He delivered the speech where he emphasized the importance of his mother in his life and struggle/sacrifices which she did for him. But before closing the speech he did one mistake; because of this “Bhagwan Khud Sharam Se Uski Maa K Saamne Jhuk Gaye” [God himself succumbed to shame in the front of Shanti]. At the same time, temple started leaning and tilted to one side.

His last word: My mother has done a lot of sacrifices & struggles for me which I have seen since childhood. Therefore I have constructed this temple to repay everything whatever she did for me.

I have tried to connect the above story with a fact that I have heard since childhood from my ancestor’s and others about Maatri Mandir (Temple of the Mother) also called as Kashi Karvat Temple on Scindia Ghat. “Old man saying that there was a man who constructed this temple and told her mother that by this way he paid everything whatever  she did for him, at the same time temple started leaning and titled to one side”

Moral: "No one can ever repay the debt of his/her mother’s milk".

Message to All:

We people are busy in our own schedule; sometimes not having time for our friends, relatives, family etc. But think about the person who is waiting at home just to listen your voice so please add “Make a Call to your mother or father” in your “Every Day To-Do List”. If someone asked me “Have you seen God? Then answer would be always Yes, My mother is my god.

Thanks to all of you for reading this space and please leave one of your memorable moment which you have spent with you mother in below comment section.

One house & Two doors !!

One house & Two doors:  It sounds like a normal words which can be guessed easily by people, e.g. house having either two entrances or one entrance and another exit. But this “One house & Two doors” has a different story where the normal life of a person is connected with desire of a person who doesn’t exist in this world.

I tried to pen down some real elements with fiction and hoping it will add more interests while going through the story.

The story begins here:

Once upon a time there was a Zamindar (English: Land holders) in a small town of Jharkhand. He was very sharp, wise and wealthy person. He was holding many lands of his town and around too. If the matter was related to money or land, then he was a very particular person, but he had one good quality – He always helped the people when they needed. Some time he had given his land to the people for their agriculture purpose without any rental cost, when they struggled to get the food for their family. People of his town considered him as a “God” and respect him a lot.

One day, he heard about a good deal of land within his town. The person “Subodh” who was selling the land was considered, as a “Second Wealthy Person” in the town sometime before. He was infamous for hogging the land of farmers. Firstly, he gave them amount on loan with huge interest and when they were not in position to return, then he had seized their lands. But after seizing the land of a farmer; inauspicious things started happening at his home. In parallel he had lost his other properties and this land was the only last hope for him to get back his life again to the normal state.

Zamindar visited the land site and had shown his interest to buy because near to that land, he noticed good things e.g. market, river, school, hospital and nature, etc. A done deal between the parties and Zamindar became the owner of the land. He decided to build a very large home at this space because of the surrounding amenities. After 6 months, his new house was ready to live which had big entrance door and many rooms with proper good ventilation. He shifted his joint family where he was a youngest member in his family & recently got married.

Unexpected things started happening at his new house:

• After few days, he noticed some big cracks in the last wall of his house which was parallel to the entrance door. Whenever he gets these cracks refilled or repaired then on next day same cracks occurred.  At last to overcome with this problem he decided to break that space and made a door so that people could also enter to the house from backside.
• Next problem was in pipeline that was Electricity problem. He got only one phase at his house which was frequently getting down on daily basis. On the backside of his house there was one Govt. hospital which had 3 phases connectivity. He applied to get 3 phases connectivity at his house and requested to remove the previous one, but it didn’t work. Electrical department had denied this request because they cannot extend the supply to the primary door & some other locality reason. Therefore, they suggested to get new electric meter installed on the backside door. At last his house got two electric meters and their billing addresses were:For Primary – Door 1, Meter No: XXX, QT. No – 1 and For Backside – Door 2, Meter No: YYY, QT. No - 1 .Everything was in control after that, but after 4 months; another problem was waiting to knock the door.
• Govt. had proposed a plan to divide this locality into two regions, but his house was constructed in Center where half portion falls on one region and another half on another region according to the proposed separation line. He got frustrated day by day issues and not getting any solution. One day he visited Govt. office and submitted the evidences that he was paying the two electricity bills for same house. Everyone was shocked. Govt. Employee was already ready with layout of new society which they were planning to build there. Zamindar was a very respectable person in his town and everyone also aware about his kindness and the work that he did for society & helpless people. Senior Govt. Officer had taken the efforts of Zamindar in consideration and came up with new plan.His house had two doors ( Front Side : Door 1, Facing EAST and Back Side : Door 2, Facing WEST) so Door 2 would be renamed as Door 1 and would be associated with region 2; Door 1 would be as it is and associated with region 1.

In short half part of his house would be accountable for First House of that new region and rest half part for another region. Confused?? Refer the below:

At last, a single house got two identities because of two different addresses.  It seems this problem was the last one. Everything was working well & they were enjoying their stay after that, but…

After 2 years, a baby girl added in his family. Zamindar had arranged a huge party for her name Karan where all the members of his town were invited. Many Pandits had gone through her Nakshtra and Kundli and came up with Letter “S” as initial of her birth name. And, then baby girl got a name “Sukanya” as a new identity. Sukanya was sleeping during daytime and awaking whole night. Whenever she didn’t find anyone around her then she started crying. She changed the sleeping pattern of her family members, but family members loved to play with Sukanya. Slowly-Slowly, after few months her family member observed that Sukanya started playing alone at night and not disturbing anyone. Sometime she giggled and sometime she produced different sound; her family members were very happy after watching this, but they were not aware about another part of the story.

Sukanya was not playing alone, but she got a friend “Sunita” who died accidentally at same place where this house was situated. Sunita - “An invisible friend or a ghost” who used to come every day to meet and play with Sukanya. Both of them developed a good bonding and started liking their company. No one was aware about this friendship at Sukanya’s home. Initial days, it was acceptable, but later their different behaviours & instances were getting noticed by all.

Behaviours & Instances: [Noticed by family member & few friends]

• Sukanya started living alone in her room and talking alone whole day.
• Whenever anyone trying to bullying her in school, then they get automatically punished.
• Whenever she had to go out with friends, then she always wore the same dress which was selected by Sunita.
•  Sukanya loved to sleep whole night during exam time whereas Sunita did the study on her behalf.  And, in the examination hall – Sunita used to whisper the answer and Sukanya just preferred to write.

At last, all the results were in favor of Sukanya, but at her home – All the members were worried.

Zamindar was an orthodox person and didn’t believe in paranormal activities yet, but these circumstances forced him to believe. Therefore, he visited nearby Tantrik house and requested him to help us. Tantrik agreed and visited his house, as soon as he stepped in then paranormal activities started suddenly…

The wind was blowing hard and the door to the backside door was opening and closing against the wind, while the lights were flickering on and off; Items like toy cars, chairs and utensils started shifting from their original position; Spooky footsteps started coming …

Everyone was shocked & feared after watching this because they experienced all the instances first time in this house. Before starting the Pooja, Tantrik had made two circles – One for Sukanya and another for entire family members. He instructed to everyone that “Not to cross that circle at any cost”. He began his Pooja and was trying to get that soul from his Siddhi.  Sunita became aggressive; she didn’t harm anyone yet from day one, but these things were hurting her a lot.  She started doing mimicry of each family member and warned Tantrik to leave this place…But Tantrik had applied all his efforts which he gained till so far and mentioned that he came here, just to talk to you and will not harm. Sunita trusted him and appeared in her original form. Tantrik and Sunita; both started their conversations.

Sunita shared her life history: ~

She was a younger daughter at her family. She was staying at same place with her family where this house was built, but after death they left this space. Her father was a famous Vaidh and used to run Ayurvedic Dhavakhana here. We had a big house here with two doors; mostly people come from backside door because it was connected to remote village & Khacha-Rashta.

Her father was very well known person and always ready to help poor people. Sometime they denied to take the fees from poor people and provided treatment to them at free of cost.  We had a joint family where my big brother followed the path of my father and Tau Ji, but my father wanted me to go for different stream. She was a topper and very active student at her school who loved to participate in Sports, Quiz, Dance and etc. She had a dream to become an Engineer and wanted to make her parents proud of her, But…

One day while returning to her home from school, she noticed a long electric wire at her backside door steps. She tried to look around, but didn’t find anyone so she thought it would be unwanted and stepped ahead to remove it. Unfortunately as soon as she touched the wire; some local people far from her house and holding another end of wire; connected it to the electric pole. She got high volt electric shock and lost her life. Police came to the accidental place and sent the body for Post-mortem. Local people who were trying to steal the electricity by connecting the wire illegally to the electric pole got jail for 5 months but because of their ignorance; Sunita lost her life.

After her death, it was hard for her family to stay at that place so they sold the house to one farmer and moved to some other town, but later this house was captured by Subodh (from his hook & crook method). Subodh destroyed that house and planning to use this area for his farmhouse. Few weeks later after destroying that house; unexpected bad things started happening at Subodh’s house and slowly-slowly he lost everything.

Sunita mentioned that she doesn’t want to harm anyone in Sukanya’s house because they are helping and very kind hearted person like her family member. In parallel, Zamindar logically connected all the instances which he experienced in this house e.g. backside door, electricity & region issue with Sunita’s word. He observed the connections e.g. backside wall was cracked and they built door to overcome this problem because Sunita used to come from that door at her house, electricity issue because she lost her life at backside because of electric shock, region issue where Door 2 turned as Door 1 for new area because for Sunita that was the primary door.

End of her story!!

Sunita shared her bonding & friendship which got developed with Sukanya because she found herself in Sukanya. Zamindar & his family was scared after hearing this and requested Tantrik to get his daughter free. Tantrik instructed Sunita to leave this space and stop this friendship here; proceed ahead so that everyone and Sukanya live their life happily.

Sunita denied because she didn’t get the chance fulfill her last dream. She promised everyone that she will leave this space and friendship with Sukanya once Sukanya get married. Prior to that, she wanted company of Sukanya to fulfill her last dream.  After hearing Sunita’s word, Zamindar trusted her and his family agreed to support her so that she would fulfill her dream.

Everything back to the normal routine after that, Sukanya got Sunita as a good friend who was always ready to support her. Both were enjoying their company; playing together, studying together and going school together. This friendship was accepted by Sukanya’s family, but not by society because they were not aware about Sunita. People started treating Sukanya as a strange person because of her behaviour and not allowing their children to interact with Sukanya.

Month by month, year by year, time flew quickly and Sukanya cleared her 12^th standard exam with flying colours. She created history and became first girl to secure the no. 1 position in her town from 1^st to 12^th standard. To continue her graduation, she moved to Kolkata where she faced the challenges in college, but that was shorted by Sunita. Sukanya completed her BCA degree with 8+ GPA and selected in one of the IT Company during campus placement.

She joined the company and observed lot of chaos on her first day in IT. Whomsoever she met, they were disappointed by their work. Some people were not getting the result of their hard efforts, some were taking the credit of others, some people were waiting for onshore aspiration and all. Sukanya was disappointed after hearing all these points but Sunita motivated her in each and every step.

Sukanya started working with full pace because she has to fulfil her dream along with Sunita’s last dream. Both were working together, but with a single identity. Wherever Sukanya got stuck, Sunita came in picture and took it forward. Her peers & managements were impressed with her dedication and extended hour support, but they were not aware about Sunita. Sunita added luxury in Sukanya’s life; by providing weekend & late night support and completed all the deliverables prior to end date.

Slowly-Slowly two years completed in the firm where she got good rating, hike and additional perk, but Sukanya wanted to do something big. So, she decided to take a jump and moved to another firm with additional hike.

New firm, a new door of opportunities, new people and more challenges...:) She continued with same pace around 2 years in one project where nothing was systematic. After that, she took release and moved to new account where she got the chance to work on same automation part, but whatever she learned previously; here it was different. After some time, Sukanya decided not to explore new things now in this new account because it was not adding any value, but Sunita had zeal to convert complex challenges to simpler. So, she enforced Sukanya to be online only and sat at her desk for presence, but assignments would be done by me. Sukanya agreed with Sunita’s word and followed it.

Sukanya started doing less and Sunita started converting that in big. Day by Day client and management were getting impressed from her work and dedication. Whatever she planned, she got beyond that… good rating and promotion in shorter time span. Day by Day Sukanya was soaring toward success and behind her every success; there was hidden desire of Sunita which she wanted to achieve and at the end she achieved it. She added luxury life and exponential growth in Sukanya’s career which Sukanya wouldn’t forget.

Finally the last day came when both were getting separated after 26 years where one side Sukanya got married and another side Sunita achieved her desire via Sukanya and started her journey toward the heaven….

Someone said “If people died accidentally or at early age without achieving their strong desire then their soul won’t get heaven or hell until they achieve it “.

Note: Try to google “Haunted Place in <Your City>” and visit at your own risk. Hope you will get someone like Sunita J