After about a month’s quarantine, students from various states started returning to their hometowns. To initiate our travel to Kerala, we contacted a lot of people, including our respective MPs, district collectors, etc. We hardly received a positive response from any of them. Finally, a few of the students arranged a bus by contacting a travel agency. We were ready to bear all the expenses. We informed the Kerala house authorities in Delhi who promised to help us with the border crossing etc. The Malayalee associations and a few NGOs supported us to arrange food for the three days of travel.
We received the travel pass and each of our no COVID certificates at around 1 o’clock on April 11th. There started our journey to our hometown after about a month’s quarantine. Though all of us were excited, we were all enough worried about how the travel was going to be. It was three days of travel with no proper arrangements. What made it stand out was the fact that India was under a 21 days lockdown. We knew that it was going to be tiresome. We did not have any high expectations regarding the food and other facilities on the road.
Though all of us were tested negative, the possibility of contracting the virus on the way was still there. We assured ourselves by wearing masks and not getting down the bus unless necessary. I slept all night and woke up around 5 am to see a beautiful sunrise. Thanks to the jio networks for having kept me updated each time we entered a different state. According to jio, we were in Rajasthan. I did not even know that we would have to cover a small part of Rajasthan.
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