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    Few Cities Through the Lens of Hiranya Borah
    Few Cities Through the Lens of Hiranya Borah
    Few Cities Through the Lens of Hiranya Borah
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    Few Cities Through the Lens of Hiranya Borah

    By Hiranya Borah

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    I have already visited 31 out of 36 States and Union Territories of India and around 15 cities outside India. Many of the provincial capitals have been visited more than once and a few have been visited more than even ten times. Even after 10 visits, I am always looking forward for another visit. I have indomitable hunger to travel and making friends from all sorts of life. I always try to observe all the things around me minutely as far as possible though I cannot claim to be a keen observer of life. I have both good and bad experiences while travelling around the country and around the globe. But I always share my good experiences with my friends and therefore in my writing also you may find only good parts of my journey. However, for fair comparison, I mention some comparative aspects of different cities with others. This book contains about some world cities in my own perspective and as due to short stay in these cities my observations may not be agreed by the the people of these cities. Therefore, whatever I have written in the book are based on my limited exposures to these cities.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHiranya Borah
    Release dateJan 3, 2016
    ISBN9781310668609
    Few Cities Through the Lens of Hiranya Borah
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    Hiranya Borah

    Born in a teachers' family in a village of Assam, a province of India, Borah started his journey of writing at a tender age of eleven. He published two novels in Assamese language and other fictional and non-fictional stories in Assamese periodicals during his college days. Then Borah almost stopped his literary activity for more than three decades. In the meantime he became a Gender specialist.However,so far, he has published more than one hundred and sixty five books on this platform in English and one book in Hindi within a span of five years. The books are on different topics like inspiration,romance and love, humour, ghosts, suspense thriller, children etc and those are written both in prose and poetry.Eight English and two Assamese books are also available in printed form. 2nd edition of his first book, 'Random Thoughts' is also in the public domain.

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      Few Cities Through the Lens of Hiranya Borah - Hiranya Borah

      Few Cities … through Lens of

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      Hiranya Borah

      Copyright 2016 Hiranya Borah

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      Preface

      We inherit many traits from our parents, irrespective of the fact whether we like those or we do not like those at all. Liking for travelling I inherited from my mother. Even with limited resources she had travelled more places than my father, who did not like travelling at all. I have been able to pass on that instinct to my offspring even though my wife likes to stay at home more than outside.

      I have already visited 31 out of 36 States and Union Territories of India. Many of the State capitals have been visited more than once and a few have been visited more than even ten times. Even after 10 visits, I am always looking forward for another visit. Two habits are my forte: one- addressing a public meeting/ students for hours and two- hunger to travel and making friends from all sorts of life. I always try to observe all the things around me minutely as far as possible though I cannot claim to be a keen observer of life. I have both good and bad experiences while travelling around the country and around the globe. But I always share my good experiences with my friends and therefore in my writing also you may find only good parts of my journey. However, for fair comparison, I mention some comparative aspects of different cities with others.

      I intend to share my experiences in two volumes. The present volume covers my experiences in the foreign soil only.

      Most of the articles presented in this book are already in the public domain through Face Book posts. However, most of the articles posted in the FB are in abridged versions only.

      To publish these articles as an e-book, I got the encouragement from the fact that, the books already published by smashwords, out of five books, three are within 40 most downloaded books and one within 60 most downloaded books in their respective categories. The fifth one, being the latest, may have to wait for some more time to break the barrier of 100 most downloaded book in its category. I do not know whether, I am writing any good for the readers or not, but I know, this is possible only because of love shown by my esteemed readers. I shall always remain grateful to them.

      I am able to write these articles because of constant encouragement from my wife (Mrs. Monalisha), my children, (Ms. Anusuya, Mr. Ayusman Vikramjeet and Ms. Anwesha) including two of my spiritual daughters (Ms.Avneet and Ms. Deepika).

      By criticising and praising my posts in FB, many of my friends, directly or indirectly encouraged me to write more on different topics and to a corollary to that, publishing of my e-books on varied subject matters, for which, I shall be always thankful to them. Similarly I feel, without constant encouragement from many of my friends, I could not have written a single chapter of any of the books. Therefore, it is my bounden duty to place my sincere thanks to all my friends, particularly, Sarbashri/Shrimati A. K. Mishra, Ramanamurthy, late Hazra sir, T. K. Basu sir, Unni Sir, Guha sir, Satya Narayan Sir, Harish Chandra sir, Dr. Boopathy sir Pradeep Kumar De, Jyotirmoy Chakraborti, Kumar Sanjay Krishna, Sanjib Gohain Barua, KalyanNag saab,Tusar Bordoloi, Abhijit Medhi, Maniraj Adhikary, RR Deb, Praveen Srivastava, Praveen Shukla, Prabin Saikia, Rupali Burha Gohain, Amar Saikia, Ganesh Choudhury, Diptendra Mohan Das, Manikankana Mahanta, Nilakshi Sarma, Anjan Kumar Jena, Nand lal, Swati Khopkar Madam, Dinesh Kumar Meena, Dipak Kumar Das, Sunitha Bhaskar, Anuja Bapat, Richa Shankar, Kajal Jain, Nitika Gupta, Tapati Sharama, Roonjoon Barthakur Phukan, Moolchand Bhaskar, Bhawana Singh, Hema madam, Kulpreet, Amresh, Mukesh, Jaisingh, Navanil Barua, Manimoy, Mudgil saab, Hemanta Sarma, Sundaram, Anupama Sethi, Anupam Bhatnagar, Brazil Brahma, Diganta Barua, Nilutpal Barua, Jyoti Kagarkoti, Nijora Sarma, all ISS officers including those who have retired from service, Officers from Directorate of Economic and Statistics, Professors from different universities and FB friends who not only read my articles but sometimes give comments also. I also place my special thanks to my foreign friends Ms. Irani Chandramali madam, Ms. Anna, Ms. Lu, Ms. Jeliang et al who dare to read some of my articles from my books, ‘Random Thoughts through a coloured prism’, ‘Serious Statisticians: Funny Statistics’, ‘Melody of Fragrance’ and ‘Akhadya’. They also gave me few encouraging comments for which I am very much delighted. Comments of the Australian Author, Mr. A. R. Dent is and will be always revered to me.

      I am also grateful to my son, Ayusman Vikramjeet for designing the beautiful cover page not only for this book but also for the cover pages of ‘Melody of Fragrance’ and ‘Akhadya’.

      I shall be an ungrateful stooge, if I do not express my gratitude to my parents, brothers, sisters, friends, foes and teachers for their unequivocal support for developing my personalities, good or bad.

      Finally I am thankful to Smashwords for publishing my articles as e-book.

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      Chapter-1

      Melbourne-The City as I saw it in 2010

      Australia

      After completion of domestic component of management training at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, India, all the 23 senior Indian Statistical Service (ISS) officers undergoing training were directed to proceed to Australia for seven days in the first week of November, 2010 as a part over-sea component of the training programme. We were to visit two Universities of Australia, located at Melbourne and Sydney, within those seven days. November being the first month of summer in Australia, we were expecting a lovely climate at Melbourne and Sydney. Out of 23 officers for at least ten officers it was first over-seas journey. Naturally, those who were for the first time going for a foreign visit, were more excited than those of us who were lucky to have at least one foreign visit prior to this. These first timers were also very happy that we were going in a large group to a beautiful country.

      We left New Delhi at around 8 PM by Jet Airways and reached Kualalampur in the early morning after flying 4-5 hours. Experiences gained at Kualalampur will be shared in a separate article. From Kualalampur, we flew to Melbourne by Qantas Airways. The services those offered by Qantas airways were among the best in the world. Food provided by Qantas Airways was excellent, though one of my complaining friends was complaining for their sub standard food! I do not know what types of food he was expecting!

      As the flight was descending, I noticed that there was still broad daylight for which the city was glowing like a golden bowl. The flight attendant announced that it was 8 PM as the local time of Melbourne. I was little surprised at the announcement comparing the sunshine at Melbourne with that of my own State of

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