Home ! Sweet home..

Hi all,

All we people are working now, and its always great to work, as we get paid for it, and we boast we deserve that. Due to advent of IT we all are in high tech cities now, some in Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Gurgaon , and  of course abroad.. But still home is always home.

Home is where our heart is, though we are far away from home. I am happy for those people who are working in the same place as they grew. But most of the cases like mine are cases where people work in some other place, not in the place where they grew up.

Home is always home, we don’t mind whether there is a high speed broadband service, we don’t mind whether there is malls nearby to pass time, we don’t mind whether we have multiplexes to watch movies, we don’t care whether there are huge residential apartments, we don’t care for anything. My place doesn’t have any of the above, and most you people too will agree to it as ur place too doesn’t have those, but still home is always home.

Neyveli, the place where I grew up is the one I am going to speak about. For all you people unaware of this heaven on earth, it’s in Tamilnadu, near to Pondicherry. I grew up in the township in Neyveli, it’s a nice calm serene life style there, and I love it, and people who grew up there will always agree it. Neyveli doesn’t have multiplexes, township has total 2 theatres, and outside township which is also known as Neyveli has some theaters too, but no multiplexes, no Big Cinemas, no Adlabs, no PVR, no INOX, just a single theater Nidhiratna, which we all love. It’s a well planned township with lots of greenery, free space, inspired from Chandigarh actually.

Neyveli township was constructed by the Government of India for the employees of NLC , Neyveli Lignite Corporation to reside. NLC is one of the biggest power plant in India and it supplies to most of the parts in South India, not just TamilNadu. The main roads of Neyveli dividing each of the blocks are double-laned modern roads, constructed with rubberized top layer. The housing quarters are around 21,000 in number and vary between hostel-type buildings with 6 apartments to individual two-floor single cottage type quarters. Aye, speaking of roads, all my frens who have come to Neyveli , say roads are empty, there is no life, but I always ask them the same thing, if traffic is there we complain of traffic, ( Heck! Am in blore that says it all!! ) if there is no traffic, we say there is no life in it, this is ridiculous, we all live in digital era, and there is always a binary solution , either presence of traffic or no traffic, whichever you want you take it, as simple as that!!!

No other place can guarantee you to make your school friends to be in contact even after years, no other place can give you the feel that you will surely know one out of ten persons you go out of your home.

Neyveli has its own telecommunication wing, which provides intercom facilities to all houses inside township, and its free !! Neyveli can give you uninterrupted power supply, water supply too.

Of all things in earth , you may wonder why I am posting this, the reason is that my dad, got transferred to Tuticorin, which is in TamilNadu. Shifting from Neyveli to tuticorin is a mammoth task, Neyveli is near to Chennai and Pondicherry, while Tuticorin is near to Kanyakumari.

Though I was born in Tirunelveli, I will always tell my home as Neyveli, that’s how it was, and I guess its time to change that, hopefully only for a couple of years , hope my dad gets transferred back soon to Neyveli.

I never realized there are so many wonderful things in Neyveli, as people tell we usually wont realize the importance of something till we have it, I realize them all now. Anytime friends to drop you home from any corner in Neyveli, semester holiday cricket matches, day time carom, first day first show movies(any movie infact!! Not just big hero’s movies ) in Nidhirathna, late night bike rides in the deserted roads, cricket in our streets, breaking the glass windows of the houses, late night chats in Anjaneyar temple ground, and Archana hotel dinner, late night tea shop near central bus stand. There are some really funny things, we will walk 2 kms in night to go to a tea shop in bus stand, as it will be open in night time also, and return again, of all things just a 5rs tea( it was 3rs though when we started this ), was the one which we cherished for.  And the most important thing of all Pondicherry trips in bike and car. These all moments I will cherish forever, thanks to my friends who made those wonderful moments. I will never forget our first car trip to Pondicherry, while coming back l would have brutally killed all my friends by my driving, as I was driving for the first time in night, with specs, we managed to escape, and the walk in the bridge in Pondicherry, that’s not a easy cake walk, we had no support to walk, as we walked below the bridge and not over it, and that too for a guy  like me who don’t know swimming is like battle between life and death, when water below you is more than 20 feet deep.

The golden jubilee park, which is very near to my house, will always be remembered for our meetings, we all meet there to plan something important as we call it, and we will always be remembered as the persons who made the admin people to do a lot of changes, first week it was opened, I went with my neighbors, who are 3 to 4 yrs senior to me, and they played football and broke the light bulbs there, so in order to stop us from playin ther, they kept chairs inbetween and thereby reducing the free space, so that it will not give a big space to play..

The yearly book fair, the pani puri stall, the soup shop in main bazaar, pondicherry beach were our hang out places, which continued from our school time, and will continue to do so in future too. Though am moving out of Neyveli, I promise you my friends, whenever all you people assemble in Neyveli, I will surely come, cos there is always Abi, Gautham , Arun to pick me up :D

Bye til nex,