One day in an Apartment in Bhubaneswar

I was getting ready to my work for the first shift and I was in the bathroom. I was soaping with my favourite Indian Margo, which my wife too agreed to only after she found that her Australian Madam at office had packed dozens of Margo soap to carry to her home at Sydney. Suddenly i heard some one running inside my home and trying to break open my door, i thought that some one forced open into my apartment and was trying to rob us in the early morning. My wife was yelling "come out come out" . I stretched for my south indian typical white mundu and rolled it over my hip and came out and asked my wife who was collecting something from her wardrobe " what happened? "For that she answered " Earthquake, earthquake, there is going to be an earthquake within minutes" I heard half of it and i pulled her from near the wardrobe and ran towards the front door. My neighbour aunty was there standing stunned to see my half attired body, she reminded me to wear a proper dress. I ran inside cursing that aunty, whats the need of a proper dress , if i cant survive the eminent earthquake and at least this is a proper dress in my hometown down south. Now i thought of my imported housemaid from down south the communist kerala. She was standing with no expression, she just landed last evening, she was just expereincing the earthquake operations which i was conducting.

We came out of the apartment and run towards the lift now again my aunty reminding me to lock the house, ohh.. i thought this woman is crazy. The building is going to collapse and she want to lock it. I ran into my house again and searched for the lock, i am losing time between death and life, i yelled towards the door where is the lock , My wife came back and we searched together, finally we decided not to lock. We moved towards the lift, now my imported maid asked us in Malayalam " wont we lock the house" by projecting the lock towards me which she was holding throughout the drama, since we were talking in hindi she couldn,t make out whats happening !!!
The language barrier i thought, wasted some more time between death and life.

The lift was working hard to evacute people out of the building, some how we manged to get into the lift, in the lift my senses came back, i asked my wife who told you that there will be an earthquake, she explained that a sleepy watchman came to our apartment minutes back and informed that some policemen one hour back came and told the watchman to evacuate people out from the apartment. One hour back the information came and now that useless watchman informed us i thought , this is ridiculous, in the next society meeting we should dicuss about installing a eartquake alarm system, i decided. But can anyone predict an earthquake, the question stuck me like a bang!!!!!!!. I thought of the whole stupidty of running away of an imminent earthquake which was informed one hour before by the policeman and to the policemen by the State Government officials hours before and to the State Government by the Central Government hours back.

We waited and waited outside the apartment on the footpath for the earthquake, people were taking out their Marutis , Mahindra's Toyottas and Tata's leaving their wives back, getting information through mobiles, networks were jammed. Then information poured in that most of the apartments in bhubaneswar were evacuated and people are in streets in the odd hours. My imported maid was enjoying every bit of the drama. The drama continued for some more time. Now some of the courageous members of the society started returning back and slowly we followed them and i completed my bath and had a nice soaping with my favourite Margo soap and got clad in my south indian attire white Mundu.