Its nearly a week since I left Dubai – nearly !! However it seems I have been here for years .India is truly an amazing country .There can be no two places on earth that are as different ,as Dubai and India .Dubai is glitzy – lights ,perfect roads ,unreal malls ,amazing food ,great looking people ,law abiding ,rich ,high speed internet , not a second of life without electricity or water - in many ways like paradise would be .India is more or less the opposite – if you find the select city mall ,kingdom of dreams ,Maurya and Kempinsky Hotels ,Genesis School ,and the crowd in Connaught Place or Khan Market uppity –then you have to see Dubai. It makes even cities like Hong Kong ,Tokyo and Singapore look like sophisticated villages .
Yet there is something incredible about India .It pulsates with life .Real life –life that goes beyond the roads ,the dresses ,the malls .Here the rich rub shoulders with the poor and are not emabarrased .The poor are not overly antagonistic towards the rich .Here in a garden party tucked and surrounded by semi slums –people clink glasses of the finest whiskey ,and eat piping hot kebabs straight from the tawa .The men and women may not be the best looking that the world has to offer –but there is suggestion in their movement and a attraction in their eyes .You can feel the power of your gender here in India .In India everyone can exhibit their power –the school master ,the school Principal ,the doctor ,the vegetable seller ,the fish monger ( if he is kindly disposed to towards you –he will secretly pull out the best fish from his secret closet – nothing like that can ever happen in Dubai !).
Finally –this is where ones roots are .The family ,the friends .Your enemies .The burial places .You belong here .You grew up here .You must be very unlucky not to die here !! In incredible India !!!.
Yet there is something incredible about India .It pulsates with life .Real life –life that goes beyond the roads ,the dresses ,the malls .Here the rich rub shoulders with the poor and are not emabarrased .The poor are not overly antagonistic towards the rich .Here in a garden party tucked and surrounded by semi slums –people clink glasses of the finest whiskey ,and eat piping hot kebabs straight from the tawa .The men and women may not be the best looking that the world has to offer –but there is suggestion in their movement and a attraction in their eyes .You can feel the power of your gender here in India .In India everyone can exhibit their power –the school master ,the school Principal ,the doctor ,the vegetable seller ,the fish monger ( if he is kindly disposed to towards you –he will secretly pull out the best fish from his secret closet – nothing like that can ever happen in Dubai !).
Finally –this is where ones roots are .The family ,the friends .Your enemies .The burial places .You belong here .You grew up here .You must be very unlucky not to die here !! In incredible India !!!.
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