A rant about the deteriorating state of my city!
What is up with this city and the people lately? I was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, lived on both sides of the river. I grew up in the old city, and now I live in the western part of town. And this city has started to go downhill super quick in the past few years. Before you come at me for not calling Ahmedabad safe, it IS still safer than most cities of this size but not as safe as it was before.
It is scary to drive on the road with all these no number plate-tinted glasses cars. You can't say or point out what's wrong without being threatened, and you can only survive with putting your head down the entire time. Every other person on the road is a gunda or a dada, and would beat the shit out of you even for flickering lights at them when they are on the wrong side. I see a creta, swift, sonet, or a scorpio with "State of Ramadhani" as their number plate and keep at least a 50 ft distance because I dont come from a family of politicians, neither is my family rick, nor do we have any contacts in police or legal whatsoever. And the cops would not do anything either. Even malls like Palladium are now full of people who would stare at you for too long, and are in groups of 7-8 with gold chains and shirts half open. I now live in Shela, and every other car has missing number plates and pitch black tinted glasses, would zoom off next to you as if the world was on fire, and would act as if this country owes them a life of kings. Why won't these guys opt for defense forces with their bravado? Seems like instead of growing with time, we are only going back and deteriorating.
Please drop your suggestions on how do you deal with this, because by this rate, we would be so close to UP and Bihar, it won't even be surprising.