(Pic from Gemini AI)
Was pleasantly surprised to see good families having roadside dinner sitting on mats from roadside dhadas. Surat is also the second cleanest city in India, after Indore in MP. Could resonate myself with the Arab traders of 300 BC who traded that time in spices, ivory, cotton etc.. Today Surat is known for its diamond trade.
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Surat today is best known for a few things:
- **Diamonds** — it's the world's biggest diamond-cutting and polishing hub, with over 92% of the world's diamonds cut there, and it houses the newly operational Surat Diamond Bourse, one of the largest office buildings in the world.
- **Textiles** — it's called the textile city of Gujarat, with one of the oldest and most widespread textile industries in India, mainly polyester yarn production, weaving, processing, and embroidery, and it exports printed fabrics worldwide.
- **Food** — Surat has a strong reputation as a food city, with street snacks like *locho* and the ghee-soaked sweet *ghari* being local specialties, and a saying that food in Surat is worth savoring.
- **Cleanliness and infrastructure** — it regularly competes with Indore for the title of India's cleanest city, and is known for wide boulevards and its BRTS transit system.
- Sitting on the Tapi River, it also grew historically as a major port, and today it's a fast-growing commercial and industrial center in Gujarat.
So the "ancient" city you pictured in the illustration has become one of India's biggest business and manufacturing hubs — diamonds and textiles being the headline industries.
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