Where would you hide if you were Somnath Bharti?

Seriously, where would you hide if you were Somnath Bharti?Okay, sorry, you don’t want to be Somnath Bharti. That’s understandable. But put on your Sherlock Holmes hat and think: Where would he go?Your siblings have dumped you, your boss has tweeted you into oblivion, the cops are panting after you. This sucks big time, where would you go?[caption id="attachment_2314512" align="alignleft" width="380"]

File photo of Somnath Bharti. PTI[/caption]First, you head to a state where you are not recognisable. Somewhere down South or East, or Goa where a thin disguise would do. Old friends are notoriously unreliable and tend to vanish when the chips are down. So, someone who owes you a favour is a better bet. You are calling in the marker and saying, "Now get me underground!".India has a huge underground network: Whether for human beings, drugs, gold or all sorts of contraband, 'Pay money and vanish".Change your manner of walking and your facial features. It isn’t difficult. After all, the recognition factor goes into diminishing returns as far as the public is concerned. The same pictures rolling on the TV become a bit of a blur, so unless he stays in the same clothes he can create a different persona.A lot depends on how much access he has to money, because money is an eloquent speaker.It also opens doors and buys silence.If you are hidden in an villa (remember Osama bin-Laden) and have protection, no one is going to rat you out, and your stay can be indefinite.But with the charge not quite as dramatic as world terror, would he place himself at so much risk? One would think he would be out on bail in a couple of days.Sure, having made the cops look silly and there being no love lost between the Delhi police and the Aam Aadmi Party, Bharti may get the sort of ‘warm’ welcome he dreads, but it isn’t as if he murdered anyone.Personally, I’d go rural. Where people mind their own business, or to some mass religious gathering, where they can get lost in a crowd, or take off to the mountains where the search is tougher.Where would you go?