Into the past with Pain... C 2018 March

                                                      INTO THE PAST WITH PAIN..C

                                                           Dr K Prabhakar Rao

( Gandhi. Patel and Nehru are seen walking at Putli Bowli area in Hyderabad .)

Gandhi. Patel . Are we  walking on a road leading to Nampalli rail station. ?

Patel True Bapu

Gandhi. But where is the road? I do not see it. It is all debris around.

(Suddenly a Two wheeler driver rushes at Bapu in great speed and bapu jumps  aside with equally great speed

Gandhi. Hey fool. Are you mad? Are you blind?  Can’t you drive properly?

Bike driver. Hey  old man. Is this road your dads? Walk on pavement bloody man

Gandhi. Hey fool. Where is pavement?

Bike driver. You old man.  Mind your tongue. Go away from here Or else I shall drive bike over you.

Patel. Hey What you think of yourself.   Are you not a human being? Have your parents  brought up you like a goonda and a ruffian ?.

Bike Driver. You call me a goonda. Now I shall show what I am.

Patel. You fool . What you can do? Bring hundred goondas. Come on quick. I shall see them. ( sings )

I am the one  who finished the Nizam state

Where ruffians  and Goondas were sitting on tower

Razkar bands roamed free everywhere then

And I threw out Nizam out ofthe power

(The Biker gets down from Bike and tries to put stand to Bike. He steps on a stone, slips and falls flat along with his bike. He fractures his right leg and right hand severely

Bike driver. Haa..haaa. I am dying.. aaa. Save me. I   am dead.

Patel. Hey fool. You only broke your leg and hand. You are not yet dead. Learn to behave. You are punished by the god for  your rudeness

Nehru. Bapu Let us go from here

Bike Driver. Are you leaving me here in this state? 

Patel. Then what we can do? You fell by yourself. You are  very rude too. Who wants to help   a person like you?

(Passers on road look at him and go away. A police man arrives from a tea stall munching a Pan)

Constable. Hey what happened? Oh! He has a broken leg and hand.

(Constable tries to lift the  injured person and in turn falls on him. Both shout loudly . Some persons  arrive there and lift both of  them  and make them sit on a slab lying there. Some one brings water and they drink. Constable rings up to Ambulace and it arrives after few minutes  sounding the siren. The Ambulace rashly stops  and it crushes the bike under front wheel. . The injured  are put in ambulace and the driver  takes them away to a hospital.  Bike is dragged to a corner by bystanders. A person steals its battery  and runs away)

Gandhi. Ohfo. The headache has gone. Let us go to Nampalli

(They start walking on the road. The road is blocked after every few steps by the metro works.)

Gandhi. What is this nonsense? Will the metro take a century to be completed? By the time it starts working, it gets outdated.

Patel. Then some fool recommends its dismantling. All pillars  have to be removed then.

Nehru. They will then propose to construct Underground rail throughout city.

Gandhi. They have to dig roads to make underground tunnels.

Patel. Some fool then recommend destruction of this city after vacating all people and  animals. They will plan to build new city then.

Gandhi. What happens to Charminar

Patel.Charminar will be dismantled along with High court, Osmania hospital, salar jung museum, State library, Unani hospital, Osmania  university buildings, Public gardens, Old secretariat, Assembly hall, Fateh maidan, falknuma papace, Nizams house.  Nothing will be there.All will melt into history.

Gandhi. Then why   call it Hyderabad? Name it something new.

Pate; True. History has to start afresh. Bapu. It is getting dark . Let us go fast.

(They  slowly walk through the congested narrow  road when a huge crane with elevated boom tilts and collapses. It falls on some vehicles and people watching the action of the crane. There is no time for escaping. Suddenly lights go off and it is darkness, There is chaos everywhere.

Gandhi. Where are you Patel?

Patel. I am here. Jawaharlal is also with me. Let us go from here.

(Gandhi holds hand of Patel in Darkness and the trio slowly traces to a foot path and vanish vouching never to return to Hyderabad.. Gandhi sings

  This is the  shittiest city I have seen

Although  to many cities I had been

It is chaos, dirt, pits and shit all over

Hey some one I feel cold get mea pullover

The trio vanishes

                                            CURTAIN FALLS