Road closed, against all hope, as flood waters haven't yet receded. I was in realization of this fact from the start of my journey. Thought its been dry weather in the past 2 or 3 days, water still disrupts traffic. After leaving the Moradabad bypass, where panoramic scenes of flood were evident, and the residents had resettled along the road and began selling whatever farm produce they could make away with, I met with greater traffic that consisted mainly of the locals, and the hopefuls. I moved parallel to about 5km-long queue of trucks on a broken, bumpy road, before being turned back by the Moradabad police lounging on plastic chairs at a makeshift barrier. They tell me to take a cut from Dalpatpur (4km back), head to Tanda, then Rampur, then to Nainital, which would be another 40-50km.
However here at this Nandan Kanan resto (which is, a surprisingly decent place, and a hangout for couples) I met a wise gent who suggested me the Kashipur route, which cuts after backtracking 6km from here. He also briefed me on incidents in the recent past where a car and 8 folks drowned, and a couple of Meerut youth on bike narrowly escaped death when swept away in their bravado of attempting to tackle the floods against all warning. He even advised against the Tanda route, as villagers had cut a 30metre embankment to let the flood waters through. I didn't understand the last bit much.
Meanwhile in Delhi, as Star News proudly broadcasts to the entire country, Anna mania continues. Manoj Tiwari, the waste and debauched actor, and a legend in Bhojpuri movie industry (he, very practically, calls himself of UP-Bihar state on the stage) is busy singing anthems in a blasted-baritone voice and crusading against corruption, as a cluster in the crowd dances wildly against the waving tricolor, while the rest await for Anna to accomplish egesting bodily fluids (thankfully, outside the view of the public), and come up with an intelligent-yet-accessible emotion to share. I could spawn a thousand SouthPark episodes from this flattering token patriotism.
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