Incredible Allahabad.....Some shocking facts!!!

The four year of hardwork (read timepass, which i regret today ) for earning my bachelors degree was done in sacred city of Allahabad. Though all through these 4 years i have visited to all such places for what Allahabad is famous for , but here i am going to share some very different experience of mine with some different kind of people who shared some amazing information with me and also left some impression on me to be remembered by me in my following years, i guess even native Allahabadis will get more knowledge about their own city and some degree of raise in eye brow expected....



1).Agrawal Bag House, Indira Bhavan: All my three years in college gone without having a bag , dont knw why i felt taking a bag in last year. After doing inquiry localites there suggested me the Agrawal Bag House @ Indira Bhavan Civil Lines. When I reached there , it was an old man with an age of 60+ welcomed me.He showed me variety of college bags with diffrent looks and designs. After i chose one , he said i was sure that you will chose this one only. I asked how? He said he applied "Theory of Probability" in it based upon his previous customers choices. I was shocked a bag shop owner talking of Praobability and mathematics which even i was not sure if i know(even after being an engineer). He told me he was mathematics professor in University and just took family business after retirement from teaching. He then cited many examples wherein he applied mathematics to come upon some result. He said my business is flourishing because of Application Mathematics that other competitor of mine lose. Based upon customers behaviour he recollects the data and provide them the variety they want. I felt howcome such experiment is happening at such a small place in world and it should be publicized to benefit other shopkeepers too but then suddenly i thought not all shopkeepers are University teachers , specially of Maths. So better leave the idea...
But the biggest joke is, next day when friends of mine saw me with the bag they thought i got serious into studies :).

2).Laundry Shop, Ashok Nagar : I inquired rate of dry cleaning a jacket to a laundry shopkeeper (age 80+) in a shopping centre near Circuit House, Ashok Nagar. It was much higher then expected. On inquiring the reason he told the kind of dry cleaning process he do is of international quality level. (listening such thing from such an old man and that too in Alld is really shocking). Anyways , when i asked how? he told he uses white petrol instead of local one that other cheap laundryman use(as told by him , i dont know the real fact). And in full Alld he was the only registered person to have that petrol as it required Govt. Licence and registratiion to have it. Also he told that every weekend he import the same from New delhi, and his final dialogues made my mouth wide open "Ye petrol ya to Aeroplane me use hota hai , ya fir meri shop me!!"

3).Pankaj Omlette Shop, Bairahna : Although Bairahna is famous for shiv chat bhandar and Dehati's Gulab jamun but in one of its corner there is one Pankaj Omlettewallah with his small lorry. He serves boiled eggs , omlettes and fried rice with boiled egg or omlette. He guarantees if you dont enjoy it while eating dont give the money. Although I have no such muse to eggs(as i have not tasted them much and restriction from family being an orthodox brahmin) and that time i had just started eating boiled eggs due to so much pressure from my friends & to avoid too much cold in winters as in hostel we were not provided with much facilities. But i hadnt found the taste very great untill one of my friend made me eat it at Pankaj's.Eating hot,spicy boiled egg in winter have its own charm... apart from his shop i am not able to eat omlette anywhere else as it taste me so bad

4)Baba & Gunjan Dhaba , Naini : I have not tasted Kaju korma like theirs anywhere in world. As per the Baba(owner of Baba ka dhaba) , truck drivers from MP , Bihar and even Bengal came to have dinner at his joint. Truck drivers there said they plead from their owners to provide such destination for transport which goes through Dhaba's way. The non veg of Gunjan dhaba as i heard from my non veg friend is one of the best in Alld. Some people compare it with Jayshankar dhaba in Ashok Nagar but on 1 to 10 if Baba is 8 then Jay shankar is certainly 2. See the difference.. better go and taste then you will realise..

5).Samosa wala at ADA: There is one samosawallah in ADA who sits under thatched roof and provide Samosa on leaves of some tree is the best one i had in Alld.

6).Bati(Litti) Chokha at Highcourt:(This is quiet popular) Under the shade of big banyan tree ,it has amazing taste and very big customers ranging from well known judges to lawyer to police et al.

7).Dehati's shop is small and old but it is registered by Govt. Very few shops in Alld are regitered and it falls into that elite club.

8).As told by Shiv Chat Bhandar , they are the first one to use token system for self service for getting Chat and Dahi Vada.

9). Scandal Revealed: Many of the book shops (dnt want to reveal the name) in Katra ask students to bring books in good condition and they will buy at good rates. This leads to mass stealing of books from college libraries and many of my friends too made thousand of money by stealing and selling books. Shops too made huge profits. I guess it is still going on there.

10). Rama Optician at civil lines dont take a penny for some small repairs , which  other shops charge too much.