Amdavad

Ahmedabad also locally known as Amdavad, is a happening and colorful city of State, Gujarat, India.
People here proudly call themselves Amdavadi and here life is all about Networking and Jugad ( making your way through total chaos and mess). Jugad is a skill you need to survive in this city and trust me loads of people do that.
People here know how to make way out of an impasse.

Here it is possible to visit a patient out if visiting hours just by calling few names whom you know belong to management of the hospital and at the same time the security can be really nasty for breaking rules.

You can get all types of experience here which you would have never thought of.

Gujarat being a dry state (No Liquor Zone) but you can still find drunk people.

People come to help and "People value People" at the same time you would see a brawl going on, on the road and you would think they would probably kill each other if they had a gun, till they find they know someone in common and instantly all is forgotten and forgiven. :)

Amdavadis love food and mind well its all about Junk food.

Here Maximum people you see have iPhones or some smart phones as they like to live life King size.
Life in Amdavad means Food, Entertainment, Family and Friends.

These people are the brains of business and backbone of prosperity of the state of Gujarat.
These are the people who resurrected from Earthquake and Religious Riots in a way as if it had never happened.

If you want to see true colors of Gujarat one must visit this city during festivities of Navratri.

For a real Amdavadi experience one must visit and try

1. Ellis Bridge
2. Shambhu Cold Drinks
3. Jassu Ben na Pizza
4. Honest Pav Bhaji
5. Karnavati: Dabeli, Vada Pav, Pizza
6. Havmor Snacks
7. FreezLand Chilli toast and Club Sandwitch
8. Sankalp: Mysore Masala Dosa
9. Vadilal Icecream
10. Asarfi Kulfi
11. Anand Sweets

Famous places for Navratri celebrations one can to go:

1. Friend's Garba
2. Karnavati Club
3. Rajpath Club
4. Cept College grounds
5. NID College grounds

Navratri is main festival of Gujarat where one can witness the original culture of Gujaratis and see plethora of colors and enjoy the variety of food and festivities with galore of decorations and lights with equal amount of devotion to Godess Amba Ma and Fun and Frolic.

Navratri is the time when girls and boys dress up and go out to dance with traditional songs vibrating in the air and revive the old traditions and culture alike. Probably this is the safest state in India where Children and youth can go out at night without much of a trouble.

Do visit Gujarat if you really want to enjoy the Traditional Dance festival called Navratri.
I really miss this festival being out in other state. :)

A Beautiful Day

I live in a place called Bangalore. Here if you feel hot and sticky for couple of days you can very well expect a nice little shower which renders the whole place greener and cooler, often accompanied with the pink breeze that blows by, full of wonderful fragrances from the flowers of nearby trees/plants. It would leave you overwhelmed by the beauty of nature.

This is the best season of the year, onset of summer (spring) one can see lot of pink and purple blooms. These trees are so beautiful and the weirdest thing is that these trees have very little green leaves and are rather full of beautiful flowers. Probably one of the Biology lessons where they said flowers also make food for the trees is applicable in this case.

The roads where these trees are lined look just awesome.

Today is one of those days, when it rains for a little while and renders everything Green and Cool.

I work with an IT company and we have a beautiful green campus. There are total 7 Offices in Bangalore this is the 7th one.

I noticed this campus when I came for interview and it immediately gave me a feeling that I want to work here. With God’s grace I got selected and was offered a Job here and was happy to join.

Initially when I joined I was not assigned to any project, I would leverage the time to drink in the beauty of campus but once I was put to work I don’t remember when last I really enjoyed the campus.

Today again when I am in-between projects I got the time to enjoy the campus from the rooftop cafeteria while having my late lunch. The weather outside is awesome and I just wished if only I had wings and I could fly. :)

From the place where I was sitting I could see vast green lawns and beyond that is a small stoned pathway where one can walk which is lined with beautiful Green trees with Pink, Yellow and red blossoms all around. Way away from traffic of the busy roads. It was a kind of solace straight from heaven. I wished I could just share it with all my loved ones just the way I was experiencing it at that moment, the first thought was take a picture but that’s when I realized that, what I was witnessing could not be captured within a camera (or may be my friend Falguni would do it better if she were here). Everybody has a gift to express, for I like to describe things in words and my friend likes to take pictures and some paint it and so on.

I must say it’s just not the beauty or greenery but it’s about how I felt, the peace within, the feeling was so good that I wanted to capture everything along with the scenery. My feelings, my thoughts my happiness the peace I felt at that moment and the 360 degree of the scenery which no camera that I know of can capture.
It also made me feel that I must learn the names of all the trees around me to describe the things better in words. Well that’s my next agenda on the list.

With growing technology where machines precisely understand what we want to do (think of zooming or moving files with a touch on an iPad or any touch Pad or touch phones for that matter) I wondered if we can achieve this too, where one doesn’t only capture the scenery but also captures emotions, feelings and thoughts that emanate by a mere look at that place/scenery.

One last thing that I want to say is, I think if we could drink the beauty around us every moment of every day it will make life so beautiful. I wish all the work places have such scenic beauty that would make going to work much more happening. Please take time to admire and enjoy the petty but incredibly beautiful things like trees, flowers and birds that are there around us all the time, which normally goes unnoticed due to work pressure/stress and other such tensions that we carry with us in our minds all the time. We forget that it's kind of a cycle. If you enjoy the beauty or things around, it can even be a smile of a person (need not be green plush scenery always), that would make you enjoy everything through the day and that will reduce pressure/stress and would help you further enjoy everything around. The cycle goes otherwise also if you forget the good around you; you will always be miserable and would never be able to enjoy things around you.

To all the readers of this blog. Happy Life.

PS: This is not the picture from my office but still reminds me of the blossoms I was talking about.

Enjoy :)