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The First Gurugrammers: Aloo-puri, winter farming and a crime free city

Much before Gurgaon became Gurugram, the first Gurugrammers arrived here, a clean, green place then a short drive away from south Delhi. Some came from Delhi, some from far-off states. This was a growing tribe of professionals moving to this Delhi suburb that was fast becoming a corporate hub and a melting pot of identities and cultures. It would take a while before a new identity, a Gurugrammer identity, would get forged.
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0 No Yes, But what was it like in those early days? And who were the first Gurugrammers? In the thirteenth part of our weekly series, TOI turns the spotlight on the early settlers
Memory tends to play tricks, and Kunwer Sachdev can’t pinpoint exactly when he came to Gurgaon, but it would have been around 1994-95. It was a time when all industries were on one side of the highway that led to Jaipur. From the open if featureless expanses of Palam Vihar to the privilege of a view from a penthouse in The Magnolias, Sachdev has seen it all. More than 20 years on, Gurgaon may have

 

The First Gurugrammer, Aloo Poori, Winter Farms and a Crime-free City is an article by Kunwer Sachdev and his wife, Khushboo Sachdev, about the early settlers of Gurgaon City. How life was when Mr. Kunwwer Sachdev shifted to Gurgaon in 2000 and how there was no crime at that time is described in this article, which was published in the  Times of India. dated July 23, 2007

 

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