What is special about
Gujarat?
Not just politics
but everything else.
their enterprise
is to be seen to be believed.
Their love for
language and identity is without any parallel .
Just imagine even
restaurant menus are in Guajarati.
Of course the majestic
lion is more symbolic .
We did get a
glimpse of its majesty and its gaiety.
It chooses its
own pace and just does not tolerate any prodding .
Utter
self-confidence , if such an expression may be used for the royal animal.
Baroda or
vadodara as it is called now reminds one of Mysore and The wadiyars.
Somewhere
something went wrong and the period of transition in the case of mysore saw the
decline of the ruling family.
Though sri Jayachamaraja
wadiyar was extremely friendly with both Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel.
There is no Ahmedabad
without Sabarmati and there is the ashram which was the cradle of the
independence movement or almost.
Gandhiji’s wish
to return there as free man was perhaps not fulfilled.
But here was his
launching pad for the salt Satyagraha.
Still later he
spent some years at wardha and experimented with naturopathy and the like.
The work was
entrusted to Vinobha Bhave when he moved over to Delhi.
His love for
khadi may be traced to the textile centre that was Ahmedabad .
They do talk of Gujarat
model of development but I feel they are right if one considers National Expressways
and Expressways as the acme of development.
Dwarka retains
its ancient character with modern touch.
Somnath ,
restored, oozes ancient values.
Everywhere we go
we see the imprint of Swami Narayan.
The Guajarati’s
were entrepreneurs of high order then as now and the
Remittances have
certainly helped the state’s growth.
There was not
much evidence of Swatch Bharath in the state though my judgment may be hasty.
The chinese
supremo had visited the city when Modiji was Chief Minister.
As destiny would
have it, both of them might have been power centres but not the centre.
In recent days
when they meet on the sidelines of International conferences or on other
occasions they speak for the country.
As for the border dispute , the question on everyone’s
lips is …..
Who blinks first
.
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