The Coal Capital City

P.S: This post is specially written to honour the request made by a very special and dear friend. I was requested to write it on the city of dhanbad. So I have tried to praise the city as much as I could.

Dhanbad is also known as “The Coal Capital of India”. The city is in the state of Jharkhand (for those who feel the name Dhanbad is as alien as a treat without asking! Samay n pranav please don’t take offence here because this line is specially added for some particular reader) and having coordinates 23.8°N 86.45°E( certainly not measured and checked while writing) for those who are too good at geography). I am not going to mention the population here because I never counted and also because by the time you are reading the post it would be increased by multiples of 100.
My visit to Dhanbad was mainly to attend a Blue concert (I am referring to the band here!!). The journey began by missing the only direct train to Dhanbad and so added few extra hours of travel due to the break journey at Ranchi. We reached to my friend’s house at 6.30 pm instead of 11.00 am but we had a surprise waiting for us. The performance of Blue was the previous day, and it was Jal’s performance together with Ranvijay hosting an event. I am not gay enough to drool over Ranvijay so I was interested in Jal only. But the show was a disaster(thank God I was attending it by a free pass!). But I am not gonna tell about the show here because the post is supposed to be on Dhanbad not a dried Jal!

Returning to the main theme: Dhanbad.
Guys the city rocks because of it’s rich “natural resources”. I would on any given day prefer to spend a whole day on the roads here! You should certainly give a try. The roads at some areas really prove the point that it is a city in Jharkhand!! However the power cut situation might just prove something different. Weather at February was quite hot and the Sun was really shooting flames giving the hint that during summer it really can become a burning coal and the city a furnace. I wasn’t long here to comment on water situation and I wasn’t interested enough to know about it’s political situation. Markets seemed good (the hirapur market had roads wide enough for a guy like me to walk!)and the presence of Big Bazar(I am not sure enough about the quality of product here but the game parlour there made me to mention about it) and City Centre( I didn’t go inside to check the brands there because there wasn’t enough crowd on Holi) added glitters. Fame multiplex was my personal favourite point at Dhanbad and there was a small CCD (now CCD has lost its charm since it opened in a city like Rourkela) too. But still the God for food junkies –Mcdies and KFCs were missing. Cant't tell much about the price of commodities but i can ensure that one important commodity was expensive ;)!!! The transport system reminded me of Patna(mostly autos). I don’t know anything about the friendliness of people but roadside romeos seemed omni present(I excluded myself here!).
I guess I have covered all the topics as taught in Social Science. If anything left you can tell me and I would add it.
So how soon are you thinking about visiting Dhanbad?
In the end I would like to say that I really enjoyed visiting here and I am not kidding about this.