i was in gujarat for a week recently, i noticed a strange phenonmenon of toy shops (i saw at least 4 different shops...) which exclusively stock toy guns (nothing else, not even stuffed toys or rattles or toy trains...), and most of these toy guns look frighteningly like the real thing.
that said, i found it to be quite a pleasant place (my last time in gujarat was 23 years ago...) - plenty of historical architecture (of the salacious variety...) and they put heaps of sugar into anything edible... the old walled town part of ahmedabad was quite fascinating (apparently, this is where most of the riots begin...)... on the downside its terribly difficult to find anything alchoholic...and when you do find it, its quite terrible and expensive... I imagine the problems of the state probably stem from prohibition... if people have nothing to do, they get drunk, in the absence of such an avenue, they indulge in mindless violence... On 5/16/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Agreed, 100%. Gujarat is a state where no actual rule of law exists - it is a dictatorship under the exclusive control of the local BJP, Modi and his goons
