The adventures continue...Rudrapur Ho!

August brought with the impending feeling of Independence, and I was more than happy to return to "civilisation" as I knew it.Little did I know that my joy and relief would be short lived, as I was bunged off to Rudrapur, to work on a technical assignment at the factory.


Rudrapur is a small township, in the rather verbosely named district of Udham Singh Nagar.It is 75 odd km from the hill station of Nainital. The standard joke in these parts is that this is the
only part of the world to have US and UK in the same place - US Nagar in the state of Uttarakhand (UK)!


That this town is still trying to come to terms with its newly found status as a Special Export Zone with many manufacturing facilities is evident from the slew of newly opened shopping complex buildings,increased rents and brand new hotels,striving to offer the best of hospitality.

Of course, some gaps do remain, like the availability of lesser known beer brands instead of the usual Kingfishers and Fosters.I discovered this to a state of great amusement and despair,
one night at the local wine shop.

"Bhai beer hai?"
" Haanji...Bullet, RDX aur The Fire"
"Bhai .."Beer" chahiye..goli barood nahi..."
"Sahab yahan to yehi milega.."
and then it dawned on me that he was talking about the beer!!..