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I am sure most of you out there would have heard of the twin city concept.
This city, for quite some time now, has been making vain attempts to resemble a little bit of Japan, a little of Barcelona etc. A few years back, she was trying to twin herself with some English town. Can't remember which one? I guess that one was just for the newspapers. I dunno how far this is true but I hear the city has twinned with a local suburb which hosts the state's IT Hub. Thanks to IT, the city has changed her sleepy government town image.
In recent years, the Japs stepped in to provide everything (except the water) that is required to carry water from one end of the city to the other without pipe bursts. Unfortunately, the pipe bursts continue, the roads have become open canals, we do not need pipes no more. Thanks to the Japs and mostly inefficiency at the local level, we have Kerala's best road network with separate lanes (oda in Malayalam) for two-wheelers and joggers. Another reason why I quit the morning walk, lest I fall into an Oda, they would say I was trying a drowning lesson.
As if all this was not enough, we have some wisemen comin up with ideas like making Barcelona our new twin. Awesome! Brilliant! Seriously!!! Imagine having those wide open grounds, 10 meter wide sidewalks, Catalonian architecture, tree-lined boulevards, a Camp Nou, wannabe-Messi kids, motorways, tourism, cheese, fashion, real beaches ... wow!
This attempt at making this city a Barcelona is absolutely amazing and welcome as long as it does not remain an "attempt".
I am sure most of you out there would have heard of the twin city concept.
This city, for quite some time now, has been making vain attempts to resemble a little bit of Japan, a little of Barcelona etc. A few years back, she was trying to twin herself with some English town. Can't remember which one? I guess that one was just for the newspapers. I dunno how far this is true but I hear the city has twinned with a local suburb which hosts the state's IT Hub. Thanks to IT, the city has changed her sleepy government town image.
In recent years, the Japs stepped in to provide everything (except the water) that is required to carry water from one end of the city to the other without pipe bursts. Unfortunately, the pipe bursts continue, the roads have become open canals, we do not need pipes no more. Thanks to the Japs and mostly inefficiency at the local level, we have Kerala's best road network with separate lanes (oda in Malayalam) for two-wheelers and joggers. Another reason why I quit the morning walk, lest I fall into an Oda, they would say I was trying a drowning lesson.
As if all this was not enough, we have some wisemen comin up with ideas like making Barcelona our new twin. Awesome! Brilliant! Seriously!!! Imagine having those wide open grounds, 10 meter wide sidewalks, Catalonian architecture, tree-lined boulevards, a Camp Nou, wannabe-Messi kids, motorways, tourism, cheese, fashion, real beaches ... wow!
This attempt at making this city a Barcelona is absolutely amazing and welcome as long as it does not remain an "attempt".
FYI and your enlightenment, Barcelona has already a few twin cities, the likes of Dubai, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Shanghai and imagine having this city in that crowd of megacities! Way to go!!!
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