Back in Chandigarh after 2 years..... Saw the things I earlier took for granted about the City Beautiful in a totally new light!
- The place is like one big overextended family!
The small world experiment would lead to just One Degree of Separation in Chandigarh! Everyone knows almost everyone else. You were either at school together or at coaching or in College or are related! :O - It sure is a very small city.... You can get from one end to the other before you can clock 40 mins!
- You are bound to get challaned in the month of March or whenever the Chandigarh police runs short on money! (And in my case in the Month of August and that too twice!!!)
- Any one new enters a place and everyone else "checks you out"... the eyes go from your face to your shoes in 3 secs flat!
The favourite past-time of guys is following girls! .....If you are a girl and out alone post 8pm, you are bound to be escorted back to your place by atleast 1 car with blaring loud music! Big cars with loud music and even bigger bumper stickers adorn most of the roads!
But the City Beautiful is beginning to take on a new flavour... letting go of its reputation of predominantly being a city of the retired or the spoilt neauvue rich kids.
The superficiality and irresponsibility have given way to a fresh vibrancy.With 50 years to its history, this young city is attaining a semblance of maturity, beginning to show signs of developing a culture and character of its own.
With all its idiosyncrasies... feels good to be back :)
