Ahmedabad

My time in Ahmedabad was again short, I reached there late Wednesday night around 1.00 am and was there till Sunday night. For those of you who don’t know, Ahmedabad is my birth city. Over the years I have had quite a bit of a love hate relationship with this city for many reasons. But even then, I come back and I just feel, I am home. I don’t feel like a tourist or a foreigner in this city even though much of it is foreign to me. Standing on the balcony of my uncle’s house that overlooks a manmade lake, I just feel, I am home. It is actually a really nice feeling. Over these 4 days, literally all I did was meet family, friends, eat, and watch movies. I was too exhausted to get into work mode, so I enjoyed like hell. Going out with Komal (my best friend/sister since I was in grade 1), my lovely cousins and Mitesh. I ate my dabelis, chana chol garam, Munciple market’s Choice ice cream, chilli chicken, tandoori chicken, garlic chicken, naan etc etc etc. Needless to say, it was ridiculously lovely. In my other time here, I got an opportunity to talk with my friends and cousins and aunts and all of them say at least one thing in common. People don’t trust each other here anymore. People have hundreds of people to say hi hello to, lots of people to just hang out with and have fun, but very very few people they would actually trust. There is a motive behind every nice deed, be wary of every one, don’t take things at face value, be careful of “these people”, these are some examples of the advices I have received so far. Whenever they would share with me stories of how their own closed ones would betray their trust, it would strike me that I have never experienced that. My trust has never been betrayed by a loved one and I am told I am one of the lucky few. I wonder if I am lucky or just plain naive?