My experience with Gujarat

My experience with Gujarat has been limited in the sense that I have only seen Gandhidham which is a small place in a far off corner of Gujarat. I recount these experiences coz I find them funny, amusing and above all interesting. When I landed here I was put up in a hotel for abt 2 weeks. One thing that I immediately came to realize were that people over here were pretty nice and pretty friendly. After those 2 weeks I had to settle on a place which I could call my own for the next 8 months. Oh well, I finally did and I moved in on the Saturday before Christmas. An incident that happened there was that my owner's son was so friendly that he took me to all the shops so that I could buy all the stuff that a person would need for living in a place. After that when I was totally bushed after the day's shopping and after arranging the stuff in the place that I had, I just dozed off. A friendly thing that happened was that the son ( now u ave to realize that me saying the owner's son wasn't that like he was a kid or a teenager or something. In fact he had a kid of his own.) called me for an authentic Gujarati lunch. Now that was totally downright friendly. So I went to his house. A lady ( whom I later understood to be his wife but honestly looked like his elder sister. Now what is that about Gujarati women?) started arranging the lunch. Now what I found strange and to be honest a bit offensive was that se smelt some curry in front of me. I was like, " What are you doing lady?" but I didn't say a word. Instead I didn't touch the curry. But overall the food was ok and anyway, it was the thought that they called me. The owner's wife is a short, sweet lady who keeps calling me for food and stuff though I hardly venture there. Some oter funny stuff that I found about Gandidham was that there is only 1 newspaper agent here and he runs 60 suppliers or so. It's so crazy that I have to go to his office ad submit a deposit. Otherwise the supplier won't give me a paper. Another funny thing is that the auto guys and the local people in Gandhidham know when the police come on their rounds here. These small tidbits were my entertainment coz anyways I have no other source of entertainment coz I have no TV or anything at home coz it makes no financial sense to get a TV for 8 months. Plus Prohibition is still a law here. But that's the funny part. A drink is always a call away here. Getting a drink is not hard. I was scouting out some source of entertainment here when I found a lending library (atleast thats what the local people told me) But the funny thing is that in the 3 weeks I have been here, it hasn't even opened once. I went to the local theatre here. People call it a multiplex here but it seems like somebody with a weird sense of interior designing put up 3 screens with cheap interiors. It smelt of old socks in the section where they took 130 bucks for the movie. But well, it's the best over here. Overall, it's a friendly place but a person can go mad here. It's like a cleansing after the riot I've been through at Pune and Bangalore for the past 2 years.............................