They say,"Hiren does not love his homeland and has no respect for it either.". And I say,"Palanpur is a place where clerks in colleges are respectfully referred to as 'saheb' (babus) and despite being utter bumpkins and miserably married, clerks exhibit their audacious libido by propositioning/proposing girls of their colleges..! And college principals are so much worried about about their students that they allow and encourage them to cheat in exams. It is a place where nepotism has grown rampant. For example if you want to work at some dairies, you have to be a Chaudhery. It is a place where folks are so much inquisitive that they are even desperate to know what kind of underwear you are wearing. Nonetheless, I do love Palanpur-- I love serenity of the track that passes by my farm, the calm and peace of Shashivan/Jahanara Baugh, the beautiful architecture of the college where I studied and later taught and last but not least an exquisite place called "Hathidara" where the beauty of nature abounds and hillocks hold an intimate conversation with the sky and a playful gale scribbles its signature on farms. Yes, I do love Palanpur."
8:42 a.m.
26th August, 2012,
Ludhiana.
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