12 Revolutionary Moments Of 2015 That Changed The Pink City

It is nearly axiomatic that any change in what so ever terms is big enough to shape an entire nation or the city.

Our beloved Pink City has changed incredibly over the last couple of years and more so in the year 2015. While most of these changes signify progressive development in the architecture, people’s vision, many others evoke firm nostalgia for the bygone days. The Jaipur city is constantly undergoing various improvements and developments, which aim to create a wonderful space to live, holiday, shop, dine, party and leisure.

Here’s a sneak peek into some of the revolutionary moments and most prominent alterations to the Pink City of Jaipur!

  1. Resurgent Rajasthan

The Global investors’ summit urged the Jaipur development authority and Tourism Department to beautifully emblazon the historical monuments, streets, important buildings and cross roads. The Resurgent Rajasthan effect was clearly manifested on the blushing pink city.

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  1. Jaipur By Night

Gleaming in the beauty of lights, when Amber Fort was opened for Night Tourism, the city dwellers as well as tourists welcomed this move with gusto. Revolutionizing the tourism at night, Albert Hall Museum and City palace of Jaipur too followed to delight the tourists at night.

Night Tourism

  1. Welcoming Metro In Jaipur

In a bid to be called the “globalised” kind of city Jaipur has been working on its own Metro. And for a certain period of time, every Jaipurite has travelled through the roads of hell and back. But after the long wait with much enthusiasm every little trial run or peek of the Metro is just an amazing gift the year 2015 has given to the city 🙂

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Jaipur Metro

  1. Humari Maggi

Maggi ban caused a big discomfort in the lives of new brides, Bachelors & hostellers, young kids and their mummys 😉 But the same year returned us the most loved gift of Nestle- that the Maggi came back on the market shelves 🙂

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  1. Rajasthan Heritage Week

The Rajasthan Heritage Week was an initiative to promote Khadi as a fashionable fabric. It achieved its ‘tag of luxury’, where renowned designers showcased their intricate designs and artistry using the heritage fabric of Khadi.

Heritage Week

  1. Linking Roads Through Durgapura Flyover

The long awaited project of completing the Durgapura Flyover finally came to an end with the end to the year.

Durgapura Flyover

Image via Google

  1. FIPIC Meet

The most looked moment of the year was that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to Jaipur for a meeting to keep pace with the small Pacific Islands nations.

FIPIC

Image via Google

  1. Sheer Driving Experience With BMW

When you want to unwind the mind and unleash the heart, BMW offers you a rally into the wild and this time it was amidst the white land of Sambhar.

BMW

  1. Living Art of Rajasthan – An Open Art Gallery

In last few months you must have noticed the cool tribal art hoardings on traffic signals, unipoles and bus shelters in Jaipur? In a first of its kind initiative in the country – ‘Living Arts of Rajasthan’ our pink city has turned into an open art gallery on Gandhi Jayanti, which has now become a reason to smile in the hectic quotidian city traffic.

Living Art of Rajasthan

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  1. Jaipur Safari

The luxury bus is a remarkable initiative which offers to see the outer view marvellous monuments and historical sites from within the comforts of this luxury AC Bus.

Apart from that, Bicycles, never thought would be a great mode to explore the cosy yet vibrant bazaars of Jaipur.

Jaipur Safari

  1. Aroma Of Art & Craft At Dastkar Bazaar

The Dastkar Bazaar saw a riot of colors with a blend of artists and craftsmen from all directional heads.

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  1. Khushboo e Rajasthan

Khushboo-e-Rajasthan, an online photography contest witnessed its successful second year with the theme of Rajasthan depicting its culture, rich heritage along with its developments.

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KER

2015 gave a lot of happy moments to the Pink City! And with this happy note let’s hope that 2016 brings many more joyous moments to Jaipur.

5 Memories You Can Never Forget If You Went To A Boarding School

Thank You Vipul Murarka for sharing your experience with us. 

Boarding school has taught me a lot and definitely, anyone who has been to a boarding would remember it for one or the other reason. I spent 7 years in a boarding school in Jaipur. This was during a time when we were not allowed to keep tuck (any form of eateries), mobile phones, could only go home on last weekend of the month, could only call home on Sundays. So within the hostel, we had created loads of memories and these are definitely the top 5 which all boarders would agree with.

 1) The Maggi Moments
Maggi was our saviour during those days. If you were to ask any of the boarders that who should get Nobel Prize, we would unanimously say the guy who made Maggi. It is better that I don’t describe the procedure of how we used to make maggi in hostel where we had no access to hot water (except in winters from geyser), containers and plates. These pictures will give you a glimpse of our love for Maggi.

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2) Climbing the hostel walls
When restricted, you feel the urge to do that particular thing more. Jumping the hostel wall was probably worse than any sin we could have ever committed. But then every boarder has done it at least once. For us, Gaurav Towers was the only place to sneak out of the hostel and go to. It was our “adda”. If somehow we would come to know that the warden would not be there for long, we might also risk going for a movie.

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3) Shitty Mess Food
You get super angry when parents visit your boarding school’s mess and say “the food is so good here”. No matter how good the food of the mess be, you always find it worst ever; you would need hulk’s strength to tear the roti apart, daal that you would get would be multi layered – with water on

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4) Getting caught with mobile phone

Some of us got the taste of long distance relationship very early in life. While our girlfriends might be in our hometowns, in different schools or maybe in same school but will be seeing her only the next day, we couldn’t resist talking to her. One dormitory would have at least 1 mobile and there would be timings fixed for us.The dormitory rule would be to use the mobile only at night. And if you would get caught with the mobile, that mobile would be yours and rest of the gang didn’t know about it. And believe it or not, everyone has got caught with the mobile even if it weren’t his. (Also don’t be surprised if you hear boarders saying we used to hide SIM Card, etc inside our underwear during checking)

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5) Excitement of going home
Nearly everyone liked going home; but if you were the only one who got permission to go home and others had to stay back, then this would be the exact reaction

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By Vipul Murarka

 

 

Image 2, 3,4, 5 via Google.

 

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