Delhi 1 to India Gate Via Delhi 6: The Journey Begins........

The Journey Starts:

As the night of 16^th august approached we all were excited. The Great Barney road aka south ex ground floor was showing its true red colors. For me things were simply AWESOME. With my trip to “valley of flowers” being canceled due to some blessings from the rain god because of which the mountains on the way to valley paid their esteem in form of huge boulders over the road, I had only one option left and that was to join the gang of hooligans all the way to the great Indian city DILLI, as traditionally it was known. The plan was as straightforward as the Jaipur - Delhi “killer” highway yes the great national highway number 8. We were planning to start from MDI, i.e. Gurgaon-1, all the way to CP, now Delhi-1 to Chandni Chowk, the all famous Delhi-6 (thanks to some act by the “twitting” sonam kapoor and “not-so-twitting” abhishek bachhan), to the Grand India Gate (Phew someone missed the Hard Rock Café here, continue reading it for some “hard rocking”)

16^th night was also special as on 17^th were the last papers of the awesomely creepy 4^th term. With 3 months of syllabus squeezed into 2, thanks to the people like Manish who go on exchange, we almost got killed by the 30/7 schedule (30 hours weekly and 7 subjects, 24/7 has been abused too much). So not to everyone’s surprise we were excited and were really looking forward to the trip.

Date: 17^th august

Time: 6PM (Almost)

Place: MDI Parking

Finally the C Day arrived (C for celebrating, CP or chandni chowk, whatever you feel like including), for me it was the Phewww day…… we were 10 citizens of MDI ready to board our F-16s, 14s. They were in alphabetical order: Chaudhary, Guja, Great Barney , Maniss, , Maheshwari, Mee , Raj, Sharma, Sweetu and W. Ohh and our F-16 & F-14 a.k.a. Maniss’s Accent and Raj’s newly purchased baby Swift too.

Stop 1 or rather Course 1: NH 8

For me it is a destination which every car/bike or be it anything with an engine and wheels over it, should be. Man its, as the original Barney says LEGEND-wait for it-ARY^TM. It’s as smooth as Gillette presto. As enjoyable as the subway sandwich. And as awesome as watching “the dark knight” in 3D surround sound system. Dude is it India!!!!!! That’s how you’ll react while traveling on this stretch of road. With glass and concrete shaped plateaus on both the side bearing the mark of your dream companies, you really wish gosh it’s so cool. You wish god I need to move out of MDI and join the Force India team. I need hayabusa dad……..

Yes it is the “killer” highway. It kills you instantly. With 140 kmph ticking on Manish’s car it felt like we were on the runway and soon will take off. Yes that’s why it felt like F-16 …………….