My ode to the new Bhubaneshwar
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100927/jsp/orissa/story_12986360.jsp#top This article above that came out in Telegraph on(Monday , September 27 , 2010)is dedicated to Orissa, Bhubaneshwar, the Cultural Capital of India. cheers... Loved all the time I spent there.... Its a magical city with magical touch... muaahhh Maximum dreams ('Bhubaneswar is associated with the so-called elite') When I first came to Bhubaneswar, I was like Alice in Wonderland. It was a city that people associated with dreams, deception, beauty, greenery, snobbery, culture, movies and the so-called elite. But for me, it was just a thriving capital: ‘Maximum city with maximum dreams’. I was the perennial outsider, someone who was the “other”. As my father was a college professor, word would go around that I was not a classworm. Streets were narrow and dimly lit with lamp posts far apart. All the houses were single storied with large open spaces for gardening. Unlike today, Bhubane...