Man, I recall in good old 2008, arriving into Chandigarh after almost month of backpacking in rest of India. What a shock it was! Straight roads in mesh, traffic lights everywhere. It looked and felt so surreal, detached from rest of Indian subcontinent which felt to me to be in some very distant parallel universe.
I was there in 2006, but I started my journey recovering from jet lag there, and I kept thinking "this seems very different from what I expected India to be like". My traveling companion explained it is in fact completely different from most of India (and so I found in the rest of my visit).
