After a lot of procrastination, finally I decided to take a break and finish some long pending tasks and spend some time with friends. Let me confess, whenever I see an opportunity to visit Madhya Pradesh, I just grab it with the illogical roguish pleasure, but this was a more planned and structured tour and I expected it to be quite productive considering the amount of time, planning and resources have gone into it.
Earlier I had heard a lot about Jabalpur from my friends and knew that somewhere there is a place called Jabalpur since my childhood radio days (Jabalpur Radio Station used to play popular hindi music. It was surprising that I was able to catch the AM band frequencies almost 300-500 kms away.). But once I stepped into IIFM, I became more familiar to this place and after Akhand was placed there, it was almost certain that I am going to make a trip to this place. And, it happened last week.
I reached Jabalpur by train from Itarasi (boarded AC 2 Tier with General Ticket and paid fine to get legal rights. I got a pleasant surprise in form of an honest Travel Ticket Examiner, who did not charge extra for giving me a berth.) and from Jabalpur Station to my friend’s place riding pillion on his bike. (I must confess that I committed the sin of not complementing him on his slimmer look.). It was midnight so I could not make much of half hour journey from Station to his apartment. It was a newly acquired unfurnished, ideal for any vouyer, fifth floor apartment in locality inhabitated by some very good nubile faces ( just guessing.. could not see that clear from the fifth floor) and potent of making you feel jelaous if you live in one-two room apartments in metros.
After having home cooked dinner (at 1 am) , I realized how living single/alone makes you better skilled in cooking, organizing things and procrastinating. The following morning , reversed the aversion (developed thanks to IIFM mess cooked Poha’s,) for Pohas. Surely, I had the best Poha of my life there.
Moving in and around town made me feel that Jabalpur has quite nice and well managed with clean roads but it was not the normal case. The city hosted the Investors’ Meet just a few weeks ago and the city administration made a point to attract investors with good window dressing. Though Jabalpur seems to be better managed and cleaner than many similar district towns I have been in UP, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
Akhand though quite a new resident of that city did a good job to explain many facets of the people and places, he made a nice segue to be followed by native of that place and ever enthusiastic friend of ours to explain more about the city and plan for site seeing.
We spent quite some time brainstorming for the workplan and did quite well to jot down some concrete ideas and I took all the opportunities (whenever we met some people regarding the workplan) to showcase our zeal, enthusiasm and symptoms of my chronic verbal diahorrea, which keeps on resurfacing every now and then.
So far we have not gone to see the most beautiful place in Jabalapur Bhedaghat and Dhuandhar waterfall. But very soon, I was to capture the beauty of the third tourist spot of Madhya Pradesh after Panchamarhi and Kanha National Park .
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