Tuesday, December 10, 2013

I Never Loved The City!

I remember when I was in school, I had a habit of saying my school was worse than others’ because of some useless comparison. When I left the school I had tears in my eyes like everyone after cursing it for years. The bottom point is many of the times we realize the values about something after we lose that thing. Same principle can be applied when I see my current city of residence that is Trichy!

Two and half years back when I got an admission into National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, the first thing I entered into Google was ‘weather’ of Trichy. Alas, not a single result gave me a satisfactory answer. Some quoted it is just unpredictable. Yes, it is. One cannot predict when there will be rains or when exactly you need to use your blankets. Thanks to my dad’s working place, Indian Bank, that I had an opportunity to visit more than twenty cities before coming to Trichy. I have memories of all the cities like the regional food or some specific places there. But I am sure that when I will leave this place I am going to forget about everything in few months, because I never felt special about anything here.

When our super seniors visit our college they feel nostalgic and get senti about the life in Trichy, though I am sure that their life also sucked here like mine. But few days back I was sitting jobless and a thought crossed my mind that it is going to be like my school, I will also feel nostalgic when I will leave Trichy. So I tried to count memorable things about Trichy and I found a lot of things. I still laugh when I pass this place called ‘Malakkoil’ on our way from college to railway junction where there is a temple on a small hill. When I was coming here for the first time with my dad, I only heard that there is a very famous temple here called Rockfort. I considered Malakkoil as rockfort when I saw it, later I found out that rockfort is ‘Malakotta’, temple on a big hill. We have one more popular temple called Srirangam, rather it’s a city in itself. I visited it for the sake of photography but was really surprised by its space. I wondered how many Hiranandani’s or Lokhandwala’s can be built there.

I can’t forget the nights when I sleep with fan speed at maximum and wake up at minimum, sometimes a blanket on me. All the IITs have dhaba in there outer premises, it can be found in every other novel by any IITian. We also have four-five dhabas outside and four canteens inside campus, but still we have been to almost all the restaurants of the city, no matter what they serve. And let me tell you I never ate ‘ghee roast’ before, this discovery definitely belongs to Tamilnadu. I never had traveled twenty three kilometers by bus in just four rupees. Sometimes in my first few months we just used to take a bus in search of new place for dinner. Last but not the least Trichy and its people’s affection for English. Perhaps it is because of tourist places, but almost everyone understands some English and it always reminds me that English is truly a business language for Indians! Still I will say I never loved the city and will never love but I have started liking it.

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