Hindustan Ka Dil Dekho!!!!!!!!

PS: All those who are even remotely related to Madhya Pradesh emotionally, sentimentally, don’t read this one! Well, if you still do then I must warn you not to take anything to heart because these are my impressions about Madhya Pradesh and Indore in particular. And impressions as they are defined are subjective…

Well people, I dedicate this blog to my native place, my birth place…

I left for Indore from Bombay at 7:00 pm and my train reached there 16 hours late. Why does it always happen to me?? Before the journey even began I was down with fever. Anyway, after all the pain I reached Indore late in the night.

Dad shouted, Wake up beta, we are scheduled to meet up with relatives. I peel my eyelids open just enough to see that it’s still dark outside.

The purpose of today’s task comes rushing into my head and the trial begins- the devil on my right shoulder whispering, “Go on, go back to sleep, its 8 am”!

You, don’t have to get up so early to do some social obligation fulfillment...

Still, I had to get up and do it...

The next few days in the city have been an experience in itself..

Indore: planned and built by Devi ahilya bai, the great holkar queen. It lies on the banks of two rivers (donno which 2, was told this by a cousin)….

Indore is a huge city when we consider its area and population. Still I wouldn’t stop myself from calling it a town.

And I say so, because of the majority of people here. Nothing against them but their attitude. Attitude towards life, work, friends, ppl from opposite sex, everything!

They are all so bothered about what others have to say of them or think rather than their individual opinions.

They follow the boundaries that are set by people, whose skeletons would also have decayed, blindly and still worse impose it on their kids.

Also, on the commercial front, Indore is on the roads of all consumer marketers.But, still people on a larger basis have sub standard choices.

On one side there are MNC’s investing and on the other, Folks abusing each other walking on the road, in the city buses. People screaming, fighting, arguing are all a common scene.

Last time I came here, 4 years back, my cousin’s were so excited to take me to domino’s, pizza hut, Westside, Globus and Shopper’s stop, etc;also was told lee, Levi and other brand outlets were opened.

But, this time when I went, except Westside, everything was shut down.The unbranded options give them more choice for the buck….

There are malls come up, I wish all the best to the brands housed in them.

Well, I’m not trying to say that any city or its people become modern by wearing branded clothes….I are generalizing the mentality of the masses in the city….

My point being, for any city to develop its people have to develop…..Youth in particular. By eating at costly food joints and wearing branded clothes, one won’t develop. The attitude needs to be nurtured….

No wonder INDIA is still a developing country, when its heart has so many problems gone unnoticed…..HINDUSTAN KA DIL DEKHO………………