Vadodara Vision 2047, by the stage
Vadodara Vision 2047, in the circle
Vadodara Vision 2047, far away
Vadodara Vision 2047, from the air

Vadodara Vision 2047

Vadodara a hundred years on, among neon towers.

Being built. You can already dance in it.

Up front by the band, with the crowd around you and the circle clapping behind.

The place

Vadodara a hundred years on: a plaza of wet black stone among neon towers, a turning LED mandala, diamond tiles of light, LED pillars, the band before an LED wall with two great dandiyas crossed in neon over it, an elevated metro gliding by, and on the skyline a palace of domes and chhatris drawn in gold light.

The sound
Hard echoes off the glass facades, late and spread, the city humming under it.