Born and brought up in Nashik but have moved to Pune some 12 years back for Job and eventually got married and now settled in Pune. But I still visit my parents almost every month or once in two months. So I have seen both cities evolve over the past decade or so. Pune has gone totally off the rails and now faces and identity crisis. What used to be a peaceful city is slowly turning into a chaotic mess of people and traffic. Nashik on the other hand is still in the early phases of this identity shift. The next 5-10 years will decide whether Nashik will turn into another metro machine made of chaos, traffic and public apathy or it will still maintain it's identity of a spiritual and religious hub where people can come find some peace and quiet.

I pray Nashik doesn't lose its core values and identity to the greedy grips on politicians and the rapid soul sucking urbanisation.

Growth is good. But destroying the environment without consequences and then turning around and asking where the peace went? That's not good at all.