Lodge Owner: - Oh! You people have checked out from your room. Just wait for 5 minutes, Sir. Let us check the room No. 123. Hey, Shyam, just check the Room No. 123 once and give me the report.
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Shyam: - Everything is ok in room No.123.
Lodge Owner: - Ok. Sir, just sign in this register book and also write the log out time. Here is your deposit money, Sir. I hope that you people will visit our Warangal town again in future. Thank you for staying in our lodge.
Arindam:- Ok, ok, goodbye.
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Soumesh: - Oh! You people have come back from your Etunagaram Tour. How was the tour?
Prady: - Boss, we are still alive, that is the main thing. We would have been killed by a leopard. We were tracking wild animals by seeing their footprints.
Baccha: - Baah…it was an adventurous tour, then?
Arindam: - It was indeed!
Soumesh: - You people could have taken any one of ours digital camera to the tour. At least, we could have also seen the photos of Etunagaram Tour.
Prady: - Don’t worry. Our Arindam was the photographer of this tour. He clicked some of the photos while walking inside the jungle with his mobile phone camera.
Baccha: - ki bolchish bey…mobile taa sesh mesh bhaloi kaajey lagaali toh…he he he…Come on, show us the photos.
Arindam: - Aaah…we have just returned from a long tour. Let us relax a little bit. Again, tomorrow, we need to go to office. He he he…today evening, I will upload all the photos of Etunagaram Tour in the website: - http://arindamsain-etunagaramtourphotos.blogspot.com
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Prady: - Hey, Arindam. Do you know where we went for a tour? Come here. I have opened the Google Map in my laptop. I will show you the exact map of Etunagaram. Look at this spot. This is the Etunagaram Bus stand, where we went on the first day. Luckily, we came back from this bus stand and moved northwards to the Etunagaram forest bunglow. Had we heard the suggestion of that Chiran and went South Eastwards to see that botanical garden, then we would have reached the Etunagaram village, which is just at the bank of this Godavari River.
Arindam: - So, what? Is it a dangerous village?
Prady: - Boss, that muddy path inside the jungle, about which you were asking the questions to Narayan, leads to this Etunagaram village only. Everything is shown clearly in this Google Earth Map. The Godavari River remains dried out for most of the time in a year. Therefore it is very easy to cross the Godavari River during winter, spring or summer time, when no rainfall occurs in this region. If you cross the Godavari River, there is the Godavari Basin, which is the training ground for Maoists. Etunagaram forest is the main head-quarter of Naxals for all the 5 naxalite states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal. All the heavy-weight Maoist leaders have taken training in this Godavari basin only. Today, have you read the newspaper? Just see this headline. The oldest leader of Naxals of Andhra Pradesh has surrendered in front of the Police. He has been arrested from his house in Etunagaram village only. He is saying that he has surrendered in front of YSR government because of his ill-health and has faith on the rural development schemes launched by YSR. So, he does not want to go for any fresh naxal operations in Andhra Pradesh. Boss, we were totally in a dangerous zone. We could have been a soft target for the Maoists in Etunagaram forest. They could have abducted us easily. We have done the right thing to ignore that Chiran.
Arindam: - Hmm…anyway, we are still alive, he he he…Arrey, boss, the more you fear, the more you are near to your death. That’s my foolish philosophy, but still it works well in times of danger. Chalo, at least, we have been able to tour the deadly Etunagaram forest, which everyone cannot do like us.
Prady: - I will never suggest anyone to visit that Etunagaram forest, which is a den of Maoists, the internal terrorists of India, who even kills their own tribal villagers also. Anyway, the chapter of ‘ETUNAGARAM TOUR’ ends here. Now, we need to plan about our Bandipur- Madhumalai Tour in May 2009.
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