School reunion -2017
Just returned from my school
reunion at Bhubaneswar, a place I called home for almost 16 years. My wife
Neena accompanied me for the visit. I
wanted to show her all the places I remembered as a child.
A lot of things have changed in Bhubaneswar.
The city has got flyovers, sign boards, lots of new hotels, clean and wide
roads. Some of the old landmarks have
been completely refurbished like the Unit 2 market complex which has been made
as a walking zone. Kalpana theatre was demolished, I was told a new mall was
coming up in the place. The number of shops and have increased a lot. We
visited the houses where we lived when we were in Bhubaneswar. We went to
temples, had pav bhaji at Kailash pav bhaji center, Had food at Venus Inn, ITC
shismo hotel (This was earlier konark hotel) and The trident (earlier oberoi). We also went to the usual tourist places, puri, konark, khandagiri, udayagiri and shanti stupa at dhauli.
BJEM School had changed a lot,
there was this new primary block in the place where we used to park our cycles.
The reunion was a simple but
joyful occasion. Got to see long lost friends, some of whom had grown out of
proportions!! The 3-4 hours I was at the party, I forgot about everything else.
It was as if I was back as a school kid once more. I was surprised that I could
still fluently speak oriya after hardly speaking it for the past 20 years. Would like to thank Dwarika who contacted me for this reunion.
Given a chance, I would love to
get back to bhubaneswar as the city still retains its old world charm and
simplicity.
A few pictures:
A few pictures:
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| Mukteshwar temple |
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| View of Beach from marine drive |
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Konark temple |
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| Dhauli |
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| @ the Mausima Temple. |
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| Unit II Market |
