I was born in Patiala, Punjab but the city of Delhi is my hometown. Thanks to my parents love for traveling and Central Government giving them LTC (Leave Travel Concession/ Allowance), things were good from the word go. I kept on adding to where they stopped. Having stayed at over hundred cities within India for at least for more than two nights I have impressions to share.
Here is a rundown of some of the cities:
- Delhi – Good, bad or ugly, this is the heart of India.
- Mumbai – Whatever they may do, it remains Bombay Dreams.
- Kolkata – The city has a heart beat, though it beats erratically at times.
- Chennai – A larger than life city, from hoardings to street quarells everything in this city is out of proportion.
- Bangalore – How brain can ruin beauty.
- Hyderabad – Pale shadow of its past, where every thing is still not lost.
- Ahmedabad – It was unfair to move the capital to Gandhi Nagar.
- Pune – This city screams, why are you waking me up and pushing me to become a mess.
- Jaipur – No longer pink, no longer perfect, a city which just keeps growing.
- Lucknow – Struggling to go beyond its culture.
- Kanpur – Politics killed this industrial city.
- Mussorie – Delhi extension area.
- Nainital – We have the lake, Mussorie doesn’t.
- Shimla – Look Britishers, look what we did to your summer capital.
- Bhopal – We were good without Surma Bhopali.
- Darjelling – Please leave us alone with our awesome views.
- Cuttack – Remember we have a Cricket Stadium.
- Patna – Someday we will fight back and be in the reckoning.
- Agra – We put India on the world map.
- Trivandrum – The city with most educated and articulate auto drivers in the country.
- Panaji – Call me Goa.
- Chandigarh – Divided I stand.
- Udaipur – Indian connection with Bond, I am Bond, I am James Bond. (James Bond movie Octopussy was shot in Udaipur and got it in world focus).
- Jodhpur – If only Maharaja Hanwant Singh Ji had not died on January 26, 1962.
- Amritsar – Yes, the city of The Golden Temple.
- Ludhiana – Of bicycles and BMWs.
- Patiala – Struggling for an identity beyond Patiala peg and Maharaja of Patiala’s excesses.
- Jammu – Poor cousin to Sri Nagar
- Sri Nagar – Why do we have to go through all this.
- Gurgaon – Talk about brands we host, not about our roads.
- Noida – Sanjay Gandhi was a visionary.
- Ooty – My full name is Ootacumnd and I am a hill-station.
- Kodaikanal – Call me Kodai and bicycle around my lake.
