When my sister got admitted to IIT Kanpur along with here we two brothers escorted her to the most priviledged Techological institutation in India built with the help of the USA.IIT kanpur guys recently
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made a laptop.Supposed to cost 1500 RS,cheapest in the world.Any way journey to kanpur was a pleasant one though it was hot.We went from Howrah and had a stop in MugalSarai.Its a important station.Though we stopped in many,but this one was notable.Once the train crosses West Bengal,into Bihar Ticket Collectors or anybody has no authority.You might get thrown out of the train ,and let alone you argue that you have a ticket.Roughnecks who get on train in Bihar have no respect for any authority!Safest thing is sleep ,do not sit!I aint joking Atal Bihari Vajpayee the then PM of India's great-grand nephew was thrown out of the train while it was crossing Bihar!
Here is a Bihar joke:
Well Any way we finally reached IIT Kanpur and got with the formalities done.In the evening we met by accident Indrani Chakraborty who was with us in Bilal Sir's Delta School Of Mathematics.She is in UCLA somewhere.We ate at Campus restaurant and another I forgot the name.There are snakes,peacock in the campus.Yes,you really can observe balance of the food cycle here.
Well I browsed the book shops in the campus and there was
a book about India by lonely planet.This book really caught my interest as it gave the minutest details.I always why every white foreigner wanted to go to Sudder st in Kolkata.Well in this book it was mentioned the exact hotels in Sudder st and their prices.I was wondering where can I visit.Well browsing Lonely Planet India,closest destination was Lucknow,the City of the Nawabs.
I read the journey took 1.5 hr going and 1.5 hr coming so according to my calculation 3 hrs total time.Next morning I really woke up early and everybody was sleeping went off to the city,a journey of 30 min or so by tempo.Kanpur's only attraction is IIT Kanpur otherwise is basically a city of leather manufacturers so products for everybody are expensive since you have the leather industry owners and the workers in this city and they mkae the difference.So any product is 10-15 Rs more expensive.Kanpur book
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I was off to Lucknow and Fatehpur Sikri caught my attention.It was an important place in Mughal Period.
Any finally reached Lucknow.Then thats when the problem started,I planned everything except where to visit and where the heck were the Nawabs and all?
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