'Jakalabanda' a place in Assam which holds the record for 24x7 music and food corner.ummm..think so, in some random India's Limca record.
Exciting place, full of life, people who travels from Shillong, Meghalaya would probably be familiar with this place, especially people traveling by 'night super buses' to Imphal and Dimapur.
Amazingly, this place provides food for hundreds of travelers everyday, assuming the fact that 10-20 buses from different travel agencies, carrying about 35-40 passengers capacity for up to 4 to 5 destinations. At about 9.30 pm to 11.00 pm, Jakalabanda is in full swing, latest music played in their best stereos, brightest lights are put, hotel managers out in their hotel entrance yelling 'LAAA OOh'('come in' in manipuri/meitei) if buses from manipur are in their parking lot, same would be used if from Nagaland, i believe. For bus drivers, this is the only actual time of refreshing and change of driver do happen in most of the buses, most of drivers would actually refresh themselves with a glass of whiskey or any kind of alcohol, then journey continues till 5 am to 10 am depending on the destinations.
Jakalabanda is at the highest crappiest mood in day time, this place is just a 'shiny disco ball' at night, which is the only advantage of doing business in food, music and even wine stores. This place could be regarded as village at day and city at night, pretty amazing how people are easily lured and I am surprised how they continue to run the town.
Get coconuts, chocolates from turkey, middle east countries and won't recommend betel nuts, its bullshit!! tried it. Hotel food in any form or dishes, it is just tasteless, now that they have added manipuri chutney making it a little better. If you were traveling with me i would tell you to order Chapati/roti and omelette, that is the best i can get.
I am not saying that Jakalabanda is not a recommendable place, but i would highly request and may be pay you to visit this wonderfully, entertaining and one of the busiest place in India. People actually love this place.
Thank you, enjoy reading.
perfectly fitted shirt at the neck and shoulder point,
Perfectly fitted shoe,
Perfectly Plugged Electrical Sockets,
Drink when thirsty,
Happy people,
Lady Like Girl,
Sunset,
Preparation,
Mother,
Girlfriend,
Chewing,
Kiss,
Chicken,
God,
Colours,
Trousers,
Watch,
Vanilla ice cream,
Shillong,
Church,
Friends,
Family,
Music, lots more....basically my Life, This is my LOVE.
I was 11 yrs old, when i first moved to Shillong in St Xavier's school, Polo, i started at class 6. This reminds me of the first two weeks crying moments staring out of the dormitory window to see sunsets or even rain. This hostel had about 30 students , i was with my elder brother till class 8 and then i moved to St Thomas high school. St Xavier as i would say it was not a very good hostel in comparison to other hostels during those days, the building was old, sometimes we could feel the whole building shaking with the occurance of earthquake. Worst of all, if there was a heavy rainfall there would be flood, filling up the whole school compound as it was surrounded by high concrete walls and the river beside the school made it worse.
Crazy and funny things happened when i was there in the hostel, as far as i can remember, i tried making a tatoo with a geometrical compass saying 'kuch kuch hota hai', if it worked, to look at it now, would be the funniest thing with that on my arm. I knew how to play the songs from the movie 'Kaho na pyar hai' as in lead piece guitar. In india, we have Holi celebration, where we play with coloured powder and water, this one was hilarious because two of my seniors during the celebration out of ignorance and stubbornness used wall paints, resulting of not being able to get rid of the paint from their hair, so they had to shave it off. Not to forget, during the flood we used to swim around the school compound, as the water level was safe enough. But one day, after we saw a poop floating around as we were swimming, some freaked out and since then, only some of us continued swimming during my three years stay.
When i first moved to St Thomas for class IX, i had some few months enjoying what i had to as it was a pretty good hostel with different activities compared to St Xavier's school.
...to be continued..
'Jakalabanda' a place in Assam which holds the record for 24x7 music and food corner.ummm..think so, in some random India's Limca record.