FACT
Recently, the RAwat Bhata Nuclear Power Plant was in the news for its radiations which react with the sun rays to become deadly. The Rawat Bhata NPP went into a pact with the Gov.t of India to reduce pollution by 28% in that area.
CHAPTER 1.
Mr. Rakesh Mehta looked everywhere, he was in the middle of an old factory, before he could think of anything a man, tall and fat came and lifted him by the neck,he started suffocating…’Say your last words pal, you are en-route to hell now,hahaha!!!’. He thought, what have I done to them? As time passed, he suffocated and tried to shout,but he was choked. He said ‘NOOOooooooo!!!!!!’. And rakesh’s sleep broke. He found himself in the second bunk of a running train. It took him a couple of moments to come back to real life. He put his right hand on his face to see that he was sweating. He also checked his Casio dual-time watch, it was 2:30am in the night. ‘Bad dream son?’, the old man sitting on the train floor was anxious. Rakesh looked at him, he was about 50, maybe more. He wore a red kurta and a pair of black trousers, a black striped shawl wrapped him. He had a rugged face with a scar on his cheek. Rakesh immediately said,’Yes sir, very bad one, but how’d you know it?’. The old man was shabby,but something about him demanded respect, Rakesh understood that, the man replied carelessly, ‘Ah son, its 4 degree celcius outside, maybe lesser, and you’re sweating like a dog!’ The train was slowing down now, Rakesh wanted a convo with the old guy. ‘Sir, do you know this route? Im a first timer,is it a station ahead?’. ‘Ya son, I’ve been staying here since childhood, I worked at the Beawar mica mine, I was a manager there, retired three years ago, now I stay in Jodhpur, with my son, Suresh. And yeah, it’s a station all right, I know you’re sleep is over for tonight, come down, with your shawl, lets go out for a walk. Get ready I’ll just smoke and come’. Rakesh found the man nice,’Okay, but be careful of the TTEs sir, u don’t wanna pay a fine right? Ill come in a sec, and this smoking is harmful allright, at your age.’ ‘Shut up son, come down soon.’
As the Jhansi-Jodhpur Superfast came to a stop, both the newly met friends got down, Rakesh saw a big yellow board. It had English, hindi and rajasthani words in it. Rakesh could only read the first two… it said ‘RAWAT BHATA’. ‘So sir, how long does the train stop here?’..’Would you please stop calling me sir?? Call me bro! Please’. ‘okay…as you wish si…bro!!’and Rakesh got a thought, ‘Im 25, he,s some 60! I just joined office and hes retired, he cant be my bro…chah leave it!!!’. His thought broke by his “bro’s” voice…’45 minutes, or maybe an hour, the train stops here that long!’. ‘why so long sir?? A train stops about 5 minutes at a station, why so long?’. ‘Yup, there’s a reason, it’s just that, in this cold weather, the engine shafts get jammed, as this place, rawat bhata is hotter than other areas, the train stops here to heat the engine again’. ‘Oh I get it, come I’ll treat you a cup of tea sir!’.’ Okay, but only if you stop calling me that…again’. ‘okay fine, come on bro. wats your name? Im Rakesh mehta’..the old man replied,’ I’m Purab Shanbagh.’. and the two chatted in the lonely station, each wid 4-5 cups of tea, they chatted about everything. Rakesh had thought about the dream, suffocative dreams only come when there is an upsurge of heat in the real surroundings. He felt happy again that it wasn’t real. ‘Allrite son, where are you from? What do you do?’. Rakesh told him everything,’I stay in Mumbai, Im a software engineer, I joined CISCO last year, as the Deputy E. Hacker! Basically there are many hackers which try to come into the huge CISCO database and we prevent them from doing that.i came to the north for a trip and so far, im enjoying every moment!’
The old man commented,’ So u guys are security guards of 21st Century, good good! My son works in Indian Railways in Varanasi,comes two times a year to meet me, my wife is up in the sky now, went there 2 years back.’ Rakesh became a little sad,’ Oh im so sorry!’.the old man said ‘ You don’t wanna miss the train, get on it, c’mon lets go!’.. ‘Ya, lets go!’. As the train forthed en-route Jodhpur, Rakesh was out of sleep. He kept thinking why Rawat Bhata is hotter than the other parts. He knew there was a Nuclear Power Plant there, but that did not come to his mind at that time. He went to the bathroom to relieve himself and then came out to see his friend sleeping on the floor. He called the old man to get into his bunk and the old man thanked him, then he stood on the train door, letting the extremely cold air in with just a shawl and a muffler to protect him. His impatience grew, he wanted the sun to come out, to reach Jodhpur next morning. He went to piss again, this time he used the toilet opposite to the one he had used before, then in the dim light of the toilet, he noticed something odd. He saw a set of numbers ,although he knew people wrote many nos. on train bathrooms, he found it very different, and neat. This was what he saw:
