For Viramgam, a junction where the routes divide and much of the traffic simply passes through.
The place where the line splits
Viramgam is where the railway divides, one way towards Kutch and the other into Saurashtra. It has been a point of separation and transfer for a very long time, alongside cotton and farming.
Junction towns have an odd relationship with importance. Everything comes through. Very little stops.
Close enough to Ahmedabad to be overshadowed
The sharper pressure is proximity. Ahmedabad is near enough that ambitious people leave rather than build here, and near enough that those who stay are asked, implicitly and often, why they did.
Clients describe defending a choice they never articulated. Staying was not a decision so much as an absence of departure, which is a weak position to have to justify at every family gathering.
What the work addresses
Converting a default into a decision. If you are staying, the work is establishing what you are staying for and building toward it deliberately - which makes the question much easier to answer, including to yourself.
If you are not, the work is making the move properly rather than in reaction to one more comment at a wedding.
Sessions
Online, in Gujarati. Chandkheda is under two hours away if you would rather meet in person.
Frequently asked questions
- Should I move to Ahmedabad?
- That is yours to decide. The work is making sure it is a decision rather than a drift in either direction.
- Do you work with people who commute?
- Yes, and evening sessions generally suit that pattern.
