Chandigarh Location Recce Day 5

Day 5

There are lots of things to like about the city. What i particularly find admirable and is a welcome change is that no road in Chandigarh is named after any person, politician, brigadier, poet, freedom fighter or philosopher. The city stands for the new and the upcoming and as Nehru had said ‘free from the encumbrances of the past’.

Punjab University Campus

The crew had breakfast of aloo tikki and parathe with coffee, all under 50 bucks a head. Students need inexpensive and healthy food and that is of no short supply in the city, especially so in the PU Canteen.

Sector 17

The buzzing shopping and retail place of the town. The sector has both local shops and exclusive EBO’s I have tried to capture the vitality, cheerfulness and ambience of the town square in this time lapse video.

Airport Road

We were off to the jet point later in the evening. On the side, over 3 kms away was the tarmac from where we will take a flight back.

In just a month’s time the city will get to inaugurate its International terminal. By now, only flights arriving from other cities were flying in. I have always looked up in the air, see a plane in its flight path and feel happy. I just do not know why. Something just bring happiness. For me plane watching is one of them.

Unlikely news this year

India is full of news stories, Indians consume news. Ours is such a vast and treacherous nation that stories happen on every road, footpath or corridor. Not all become national news. The more things change, the more they look the same. As a flight of my imaginations I thought of things that are most unlikely to occur.

1. Mobile phone tariffs increase
2. Petrol prices hit below 50 rupees
3. Mumbai metro getting ready on time
4. Rahul Gandhi becomes a Cabinet minister
5. Economy growth rates dips below 8 %
6. Salman Khan is out of news
7. Sharad Pawar resigning voluntarily
8. Delhi roads become safer at night
9. CPI (M) winning in West Bengal and Kerala assembly elections
10. An indigenous animation film be the biggest hit in India
11. MTV decides to air Roadies-8 only twice a day
12. CAT coaching classes reduce fees
13. Another IIM alumni writes a best-seller
14. Mass deleting of accounts and exodus of people from Facebook
15. Gold prices dip below 20,000/10 gram
16. Knight Riders winning the IPL
17. Final decision on Telangana issue
18. Kumar Sanu or Udit Narayan sing a chartbuster
19. New 100 currency notes with J. Nehru on the obverse side
20. Getting a correct monsoon prediction from MET department
21. 5 new nuclear reactors sanctioned with 2000 MW capacity each
22. Chicken tikka masala becomes the official national curry of India
23. Coca-Cola or Pepsi making a comeback with increased sales
24. One new cult fiction TV series that becomes an instant hit
25. Nestle gives Kit-Kat free with a maggi double pack or 4 pack
26. India to have 2 time zones – Mumbai and Kolkata to save daylight
27. Government lets Tata enter aviation sector by buying Air India back
28. Plastics bags are banned throughout the country and milk is sold in bottles
29. Anil Kapoor shutting the hell up before the release of Mission Impossible:IV
30. Media remains calm irrespective of whether India wins the world cup or crash out in quarter or semis

Feel free to add more in the comments section!