Chapter 1
A True Incident - As told by Sandeep Chugh
It happened around 1999-2000.
I used to work in a factory. The factory was about 6–7 km away from my home, andcardboards were printed there.
Sometimes there were night shifts, so I too had to stay at night, because I was like asupervisor.
That means the whole factory was mine at night.
We used to work till 2 a.m. and then sleep. One night, I had to stay for the night shift.
There were 3-4 very old workers there.
The factory was, as per those times, located in a remote area, like a dense forest.Right in front of the factory was an iron gate, which had a small door for people to passthrough.
About 100 feet away, in the open yard, there was a huge Peepal tree-which stillexists but now the area is populated.
Back then, everything was deserted. I too was young, around 19-20 years old.
During a casual conversation with the workers, we had an argument that I would situnder that tree at 2 a.m. for 30 minutes,
and
if I ran away before time, I'd lose otherwise, I would earn praise.Maybe a small shirt was also at stake, which I don't remember now.That's what happened.
So, exactly at 2 a.m., I went and sat under the tree.
The workers shut the door. But I felt like maybe they were watching me from the smallwindow in the large iron gate.
I sat there for 25 minutes without any tension. But suddenly, I saw a dog coming toward
me.
I've never been afraid of dogs.
I'm not scared of them because I had often walked alone at night -I got used to thefact that dogs bark. Let them bark, what's the big deal?
So yes, Il saw a dog coming toward me. I didn't care.
But... just then, I started hearing a "gharr-gharr" sound from behind.
Now I turned around.
Sweat broke out on my forehead because the second dog didn't look like a dog - itlooked like a wolf, as if it was about to attack me.
But what's this!
Just then I saw 20-30 more dogs coming toward me, growling slowly.
I felt like I was about to die.
In those days, we used watches with numbers. There were still 2 minutes left.
I looked in front, then to the sides- and I was shocked.Where had so many dogs come from?
All of them were growling and slowly moving toward me.
My breathing became louder.
I couldn't understand anything.
By now, I was completely drenched in sweat.round me,What is this -I started trembling.
I was sitting alone in the open yard under the tree and all athere were only dogs -like big wolves.
They were growling and coming toward me.
Dogs everywhere- thousands of dogs.
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