Surat

What is so wonderful about India is that each state you tour is completely different from the other. There are different languages, religions, cultures, and ways of life. That is what I love most about India; you will never get bored of it. So, when I landed in Gujarat I could not wait to see the sights that it had to offer me. Surat, a city of Gujarat and also India's eighth largest metropolitan city, is beautiful. The cleanliness of the city allows for people to see it’s greenery, markets, and huge variety of textile and jewelry shops along the highway. Speaking of highways, we passed High Way 8, also known as “High Way Aids”. Apparently, all the truck drivers that would use that high way would stop into other states and sleep with people. Once they get back home, they would do the same. This caused the major spread of Aids in India.

On my way to Kadod, I also heard another story that happened last year. A young girl was walking home from school at night which is very dangerous to do in Gujarat. Men kidnapped her and put her in a van where they raped her for hours. Once she was released she ran home and told the cops. She had remembered seeing something dangling from the rear-view mirror and so the cops went on a search the whole night. They ended up finding the men but now the uproar in the city is that the men are Muslim and the girl is Hindu. There has been a lot of hostility towards Muslims since then.