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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Trip to India

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After one year of stay in Singapore, I missed my motherland India and want to go back to home to see my beloved family members and friends. Since, I have to participate in the national competition in Singapore, I got only two weeks to visit India. So, I planned my schedule to cover all places which I have to visit. My heart started beating with joy because I'm going to see my India after one year. India is making headlines in the newspaper that economy grows more than 9%. Whenever, I browse through any newspaper in Singapore I always search any Indian news. Basically, Its the people view that as economy grows, the country's citizen per capita income increases and there will be an overall development. So, I presume that Indian people now becoming wealthier than before.
I read it in the newspaper in Singapore, India government plans to expand its airport due to overwhelming increase in the air passenger traffic. Economist often says that Singapore's development can be attributed to its strong infra structure which become a suitable place for foreign investment. This is very clear from the GDP of Singapore, about 60% GDP comes from MNCs headquarter in Singapore and rest from Singapore SMEs. Changi airport in Singapore is considered to be one of the best airport in the world which can handle about 70 million. On the contrast no Indian airport handles more than 10 million passengers currently. I don't know why Indians themselves hate Indians, in changi airport service is considered to one of the world's best but in chennai airport people scarcely respect the passengers. When the plane took off from Changi , I was anticipating time to go faster. Due to heavy traffic in chennai, plane has been delayed in landing.
Chennai was still almost same except traffic, air pollution has increased. I went directly to my hometown cuddalore in bus. Bus passes through by-pass, the road reminds me of PIE(highway in Singapore). Actually highway is better than many roads in Singapore. There is a signal of development but traffic is too heavy even in nights. I presume the reason for traffic in night was attributed to cancellation of train and construction of broad cage. I reached cuddalore and went to home in an auto. Difference in the lifestyles can be clearly seen in cuddalore which is a town located in erstwhile of pondy. Even though many countries like US, UK, Singapore are richer than India there is always something is lacking in those countries thats affection. You don't get affection anywhere outside India. Literally improbable to speak about affection in foreign nation. India is always India.