Prasanna an der Ruhr, My city

Mulheim an der Ruhr, the city in which I am. Its a small and well planned one. You can walk the whole city by foot when the sun is up! The temperature is 18 degrees on the average and rains most of the time and breezy too! I still have not seen the winter here, but I can guarantee you that your clothes will dry up in a days time during peak summer.

 The city is divided into three regions. The other side of the Rhur, Downhill and Uphill. Uphill is where my institute is. Safe when the river Ruhr over flows!! Downhill is where my apartment is and so are the shopping malls, banks and offices. The other side of the river is the place where the Turkish and the Sri Lankan people live. The Turkish work in most of the pizzerias and restaurants and the Sri Lankans run Asian shops and Internet cafes. The roads are laid down with tram lines and strict zebra crossings. Road digging takes place here too. But unlike our Ramakrishna Mutt road, the road digging here is highly organized and when the work finishes, there will be no trace of the digging! Nearly 50% of each road is greenery and cigarette buds!

There is an open air theatre in middle hill region and many concerts take place in the summer. Cinema is shown in the Forum complex and the movies are Hollywood dubbed in German. People here don’t spend more on cinemas. This is evident from the Cineplex. You will feel that Satyam Cineplex is the best ever after watching movie here! And the film industry is very silent too. No actors advertising brands or no German movies being released. No masala movies and gossips here!

The city has a cathedral and the steps leading to the cathedral are inscribed with the ‘ peace ‘ written in many languages, even in Hindi. There is a museum that says ‘entry free’, but its always empty. I guess thats because people need to pay to come out of the museum!! Looking at the broader picture, every German city can be generalized as River+Cathedral+Museum+Pubs+Shopping .

 Feels like you have seen Germany already?! Never mind, come over.. you have a brilliant guide here now!

~ by maxprasanna on August 22, 2007.