A Woman's diary...

City of my life

Lucknow..may be just a city for others but for me ..i feel like my life revolves around this city only.from childhood till today. I remember ;)....actually mom dad told me tat i was only 2 years old wen i saw this city.papa got transfer to Lucknow and then finally we shifted from our grand parent place to Lucknow.n since then i always find this city connected to my life in one or another way.there is something magical about this city..at least for me.at every stage of my life i find this city helped me a lot.i started my education in Lucknow...still remember tat school name.."happy world Montessori school" i have some few memories or should i say pictureof tat time...tat school.I always like n loved to hear the stories of my childhood time i spend in Lucknow from my parent. may be that's is the reason why i have a strong memories of those days.mom tells me i always like the aminabad market of Lucknow, not for shopping but to eat the famous kulphi of prakash kulphiwala.every Sunday my father used to take us for outing.my brother always want to sit on that auto rickshaw which goes to Hajratganj ...because he loved to watch movies and good cinema halls were there.and me..me always want to sit on aminabaad auto rickshaw..:)

after some year papa got transfer to some other city and then some other and so on....but still we kept visiting Lucknow..sometimes relatives were the reason..sometimes just for shopping...sometime we all means my family were just missing d Lucknow..so we kept going there and every time i find my love and attachment increased for this city.every important relationship of mine has a connection with that city..may be its because Lucknow is d capital of UP and a really good city in terms of everything....whatever the reason but i feel happy that all my friends are somehow connected to this city.i did a lot of MASTI...MAZA..with my friends in this city.when my family finally settled in faizabad which is near to Lucknow ,i kept coming to Lucknow on every 4-5 months..my best friend zeby was living there..and i used o stay at her home during my visit though we have relatives also there.

watching movies...eating ....aminabad shopping...kulphi..or just roaming around...i can do anything in Lucknow..just want to be in that city..that's it.

finally i got married also in lucknow.and felt like god has gifted me this city.leaving own home n city is always pain full for a girl...but 'leaving the city' part was not pain full for me..felt like i was going to my own city where i always belonged to.me and my husband always use to joke that may be in childhood  we may have come across to each other,seen each other somewhere in the markets of lucknow...and finally destiny brought us together.

well..talking about d destiny..sometimes i tried to write my destiny in this city...and some time this city tried to write my destiny...whatever.. god knows....who got the succees.but definitely god has written this city in my destiny for sure.today i live in gurgaon..i love this city also..my own home is here but still miss this city..'lucknow' and always make plan to go back to lucknow after the age of 60.sometimes people of guragon recognise me as a Lucknawi person just because of my language...some words i use in my language which are generally not use in Delhi language.and i really feel proud of being recognised as a Lucknawi".....in thirty years of my life lots of things has changed in this city...actually d whole city..but those changes couldn't change the love and affection i have for this city.the picture of Lucknow city will be remain same for me in my heart n mind ...imagining me as a liitle girl in pink frock running on d streets of aminabad ..dragging her dad hand towards the shop of prakash kulphiwala..I still do d same ...difference is ..earlier it was a litle girl and now its a woman who do this act.this city gave me a lot ....most of the time good ....and sometime bad also

but still i love lucknow..and always will........