Srisailam is a small town located amidst dense deciduous forests called Nallamalai forests. I went there last week,although this is the second time I’m visiting the place. Its about 190 kms from my place(Kurnool). But the nearest railway station to Srisailam is Markapur Road,which I think is in Prakasham District.

The place is famous for Bhramaramba-Mallikarjuna Swamy temple,an ancient and holy temple,which is regarded as one of the 12 Jyothirlingas in the country.Goddess Mahakali is seated here in the form of Bhramaramba along with Her consort,Lord Mallikarjuna Swamy(God Shiva).

The temple is located in a large prakara fenced in by sculptured walls made of huge blocks of stones placed on each other.

See these two photos below……This place is called as Paladhara-Panchadhara. One needs to go down through hundreds of steps to find a small temple of Adi Sankaracharya. It is here that Adi Sankaracharya performed his meditation for many years.Adi Sankaracharya is a famous saint who preached the religious principles of  Hinduism over a major portion of South India.

Another fascinating place to visit is the Srisailam Dam located across River Krishna.

Haha…I know, this doesn’t seem like a large dam. But just have a look below. This is how the dam appears when the gates are open.It is one of the 12 largest Hydel power projects in the country. And one interesting point to mention here is that the heavy floods we had in my town(Kurnool) about 2 months back is because of the Back flow of water from this dam(As the dam is located on the hill above the sea level) although our town is 190 kms from Srisailam.

The place itself is very scenic.

I enjoyed the trip a lot. U too can visit the place when possible. I believe its worth visiting. Hope this post is useful to u.

Regards,

Satheesh.

Why are these many people gathered here near the railway track? What happened here? The police were restricting their access towards something. What’s that ?

Oh my God!!! this seems to be a major train accident. Atleast 20 people might have died and another 50 casualities might have been reported in this mishap.

Many railway officers, supervisors and other employees rushed to the spot and were seriously engaged in their duties.

You can see some people with red-coloured shirts working at the spot there. They are from TXR Department. They are concerned with bringing out safely the passengers who are caught within the compartment.

See these two photos…. This is how they create Emergency exit…..

Here is a man from RPF(Railway Protection Force) Department.

These people are from Engineering Department. They are concerned with detecting errors,if any,in the railway track which might have led to the accident and restoration of the track as soon as possible.Oops the photo hasn’t much clarity….

Within no time,many ambulance vans arrived at the spot.

And what are those tents? Lets go and see……..

Oh yeah here they have arranged a medical camp. You can see a table here where First Aid is available.

Medical and Paramedical staff are treating these patients for minor injuries.

This man is noting the details of the injured person-His Name, Age,Residential address,Contact numbers of his kith and kin etc….

Here’s a Mortuary where the dead bodies are kept for identification.

Oh how cruel this is!!! 2 young girls lying on a stretcher. Are they still alive or dead???

These people are concerned with collection of  information regarding  No.of passengers dead, critically ill or injured and updating the information in the official website of the Railways.

Here’s a Helpline. The kith and kin of the passengers can contact these phone numbers to know about the status of the person.

Loud speakers were arranged here and there by which important announcements are made.

Its uneasy for anyone to see such a pathetic situation….What’s the sin of these innocent people. Some of them going to a place on Business work,some eager to visit their family and friends,some on study purpose.Some of them are young who even might not have tasted the happy moments of life,while some are old and helpless who could do nothing than just taking their last breath with sweet memories of their lives flashing in their minds.Some of them are women and some are children.Oh God!!! pls give me the strength to digest this……

Hope these photos have moved most of u…….

However careful we are,we could do nothing to prevent such accidents than just believing in God…….

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Hehe don’t worry….

This  is just a “Mock” show of a Train accident arranged by Railways in my hometown.  They shot a documentary here about How the public and the people from various Departments of the Railways react to a Train accident. As my father works for railways I got an opportunity to picture all these.U can see him in the 9th photo from the top. He’s wearing a yellow-coloured cap in that photo.No doubt…he deserves an Oscar for his action.

Thank u one and all for being with me all the time.Hope this post gives u some useful information………

Hi friends first of all let me say sorry to all of you as I was away from blogging for a few days because of my continuous schedule of Internal theory and practical exams. And now,finally,my External Examination Dates have been announced i.e from September 1st(exactly 31 days to go). I’m planning to continue my preparation for Final exams at home. So I’m leaving to my hometown tomorrow with a hope to have everything positive.As I don’t have Internet at my home, I may not be able to visit your Wonderful and Inspiring blogs for about 1 1/2 months. I’m taking with me the memories of Great moments that we’ve shared with each other for all these days.I pray God for the well being of all of you and hope to have many more wonderful days with you after completion of my exams.

Regards.

Hi friends, I remained in a state of Neurogenic shock-Bewildered and puzzled for 2 days as to whether this is real or just my dream. But now,having regained my consciousness,I have no other option than believing it. Don’t know what magic ur words and wishes did, I and my team members are the WINNERS in the state level Psychiatry Quiz yesterday.I’m still in a state of Intense Happiness having achieved a Great goal after a long long time,and I cudn’t stand on my feet,rather I wud prefer to fly high in the sky at this moment like a free bird,provided I have two wings like them.I wud like to run as fast as a Kangaroo rather than standing at my same place,further investigating its reality.

There was a clash between 7 teams(4 members in each team) from 7 medical colleges.Although the number seems to be small,believe me….we had a rigorous competition.It was like-if you tell one answer wrong you will be out of the Quiz. Our team answered all the questions except one simple question for which we did a simple mistake. There were 2 rounds.

First round regarding the wide range of Psychiatric disorders,their treatment modalities, famous Psychologists(we have to identify their pictures),also the contributions made by these Pyschologists to the Great subject of Psychology(their theories and life-time studies).

In the Second round,they showed pictures of some English and Hindi movies related to Psychiatry-like Rain Man, Taare Jameen Par,Main Aisa Hi Hoon, Gupt, Madhoshi,and many English movies and we have to tell the Psychiatric disorder suffered by the hero or heroine in that movie.

It was here I realized that we must believe God. If God isn’t there how cud I get exactly the same question related to the movie which I prayed Him to get asked. I don’t know much about movies except the movie which is like a Heart-beat to me, A Beautiful Mind…..Ohhhhh to my surprise I was asked the same question. I was stunned for a moment before confidently giving the answer as ‘SCHIZOPHRENIA’.

And finally 3 teams got an equal final score of  110 each. And they declared all the three teams as Winners. The winning teams are

Kurnool Medical College,Kurnool(Our college)

Andhra Medical College,Vizag and

NRI Medical College.

I cudn’t forget this Great day in my Life……Hope u too have such Great days ahead.

I’m extremely thankful to you all……….

I have to celebrate this day for sure,as this a remarkable day in my life. The reason being, I’m selected from my college along with 3 other people to the Undergraduate Psychiatry Quiz which is going to be held in Hyderabad on 28th of this month. I feel like I’m back into my spirit in competitions after a long time,ever since my school days. Actually, on Saturday(day before yesterday), my Psychiatry Professor has randomly selected 4 out of the 12 interested students,by way of Lucky dip and I wasn’t lucky then. Infact, I wasn’t there when Lucky Dip was done. Later I called my Professor on Phone and requested him to conduct a test for all the interested students and select the top four mark scorers.And luckily he said ok for that. Today he conducted the test for 5 different teams(2 members in each team) in the test. I and my partner got 8 out of 10 marks,the highest. I cudn’t believe that I’m selected. Its a Great opportunity for me to prove the power of my little neurons which remained unused for a long time.

The Quiz is only a part of the Psychiatry Conference.Its a State level Psychiatry Quiz.The winning college in this  Quiz will be sent to South India level Quiz,but its very difficult to win. Anyway,It’ll be like a celebration to all the students and staff coming from various colleges. There’ll be many cultural events and Night party on 27th. We can enjoy a lot for 2 days. The quiz will be on second day(28th).

I wanted to share my happiness first with you even before all my batch friends,as you are the people who made me back into my spirit.

I’m extremely thankful to you all…………………..