Narrow Escape

UN guest house, Delhi

Yesterday incidence has proved that there is no assurance to life in any circumstance you are. I finally met Ankit Modi yesterday; this was the first time we were meeting after leaving school and he hasn’t changed at all.

Yesterday, Rudra picked me up from south delhi to his way home in his santro, which he normally drives. Also with us was Rudra's friend Geet who was also coming with us. So, on our way as usual we were chatting listening to music and talking general stuff when suddenly we smelled something burning. Now our first reaction was that there must be something outside because of which the smell originated, but it didn’t look that way because after 5 seconds the air conditioner just went off. Couple of seconds later the car just shuts as if someone removed the car key. Following the law inertia opposed by friction from the road, the car rolled for 50 meters and we directed it towards the pedestrian payment.

Here starts the story, the moment we stepped outside the car, what we saw was something we have never imagined. There was fire in the engine of the car. We all started shouting and running simultaneously, because the moment fire comes in contact with petrol, the car would explode. With flashes of car exploding from Hindi movies running in front of my eyes, I ran as fast as I could.

People started coming from everywhere trying to figure what’s happening. We didn't know the extent of the fire, because no one has the guts to open the bonnet. With Geet shouting and throwing sand through the air opening in front of the car, nothing was controlling the fire really and we thought any moment the car will burn. Here comes the hero, a man went inside the car and opened the bonnet. With Modi trying to reach the fire engine and is not able to get through, a local bus driver got a fire extinguisher and extinguished the fire.

After couple of hours, the car was sent to the workshop and we left for Rudra’s Place. Well it’s hard for me to express the whole scene in words but it was a big deal. I still can get over with the whole incidence but like someone says anything can happen at any moment of time.

Talking about my Internship, `The project is called consolidated project for small and medium business development in India through establishment of mutual credit guarantee schemes, cluster twinning and foreign investment and technology promotions. However there are doing this project on two sectors which are auto components and leather based in Pune and Chennai respectively. They also work on a Pharmacy segment in Hyderabad which is of a great interest to me. There project head office is here in Delhi but the project focused business is in Chennai and Pune. Today I had a good training on Mutual Credit Guarantee scheme.