It was one of my earliest adventures.
Have you ever been to a sea? If your answer is NO you would have believed me if I said its the sea on which this dam is been built. With 15 Kms length Hirakud Dam is the longest dam. It is built on the Mahanadi river.
Winter of 2000.As students we traveled light.First by train then by bus and then by a Ford Trecker to the base. From where (if I remember correctly) we hired an auto to the dam.
Midway at a checkpost we were stopped by 2 cops. First a routine enquiry.. Then it dragged on for sometime. The subinspector was fuming after sometime and was about to bring our journey to a sudden death. Why ?Well someone had whispered "Mamu paisa maguchi"(Mamu ko paisa chahia).
I shouldn't have whispered. Later my friends said they didn't hear me. Well then I guess the cop read my mind. It took a lot of soothing his ego that he finally allowed us to proceed. The scenery was awesome.
I still remember the incident long after the images of the dam and the surroundings have been erased from my memory. I had learnt my first lesson. Its the journey which is more important than the destination. Later I have traveled to so many other places and every journey reiterates the same learning.
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