for fashion designer ramesh dembla what seemed to be a routine work trip to colombo last weekend ended up being nothing short of a nightmare as he braved his way back to india through the violent curfew on monday the designer shared that they had to wait for over three hours for the cabin crew to reach the flight as they were stuck in the curfew before landing in bengaluru safelyi had been to colombo for an event everything seemed peaceful on sunday even though there was a protest on that day on monday the curfew took a violent turn and we decided to head to the airport five hours earlier to ensure we did not miss our flight back home the route was filled with blocked roads and angry protestors there were people with hockey sticks and even sickles which we braved to flee back safely it stills gets me very unnerved to think about what we went through recalls rameshthe designer says that he had been to colombo with a few models and bollywood actress amyra dastur amyra was stuck too what made the experience scary as opposed to my previous visits during this crisis was seeing the overturned buses and vehicles that had been set on fire they had taken the help of the big landscaping equipment vehicles to overturn those buses id even requested our driver to not stop even if there were hindrances and make a dash for it god alone knows how we managed to get back without a scratch i am lucky that i escaped it all is all that i can say he adds