much before gurgaon became gurugram the first gurugrammers arrived here a clean green place then a short drive away from south delhi some came from delhi some from faroff states this was a growing tribe of professionals moving to this delhi suburb that was fast becoming a corporate hub and a melting pot of identities and culture it would take a while before a new identity would get forged a gurugrammer identity that we see today but what was it like in those early days and who were the first gurugrammers in the second part of our new weekly series toi turns the spotlight on the early settlerswhen suprio and suman mukherjee came to gurgaon in 1991 there was only one landline in dlf phase1 and just the one bus which would leave in the morning and come back in the evening but there was no shortage of camaraderie the mukherjees who in 1994 moved to thenpastoral palam vihar spoke fondly of a time when urban distractions were few and far between when there was only nature for company even now the whistle from a passing train is a gentle reminder of that arcadiaback thena train would pass very near the house coming from delhi cantonment and going towards bikaner wed go up to the terrace and see it comingsuprio i had an aunt here we moved because delhi had water problems and the power situation wasnt so great either here for half the money we were getting three times the accommodationon either side of our house there were two plots one wed use for growing vegetables the other for playing badmintonsuprio i absolutely fell in love with gurgaon it was nature at its most basic and raw but it was amazing just loved itto get by we had to get to know each other wed visit each other in our houses you never called and dropped in like you have to do now if we wanted to get together wed go ahead and do so there was no making plans because we had all the timethe millennium city before the new millenniumin dlf phase1 there was this guy whod deliver bread and cake on his cart twice every week and chakkarpur and sikanderpur were our village malls since they had vegetable shops but for our monthly groceries wed go to old gurgaonwater was plentiful but power was a problem in dlf phase1 power cuts in summer would sometimes last for days connectivity was probably the biggest challenge but we survived it wasnt too difficult actually apart from 23 months of the year it was nicegurgaon then was small and beautiful but having become big it has become uglynatureback then the lake at damdama had water you could go and see birds it was a good drive but an adventure reaching it sohna road was all brokensuman there was a lot of nature around there were snakes frogs and butterflies and peacocks laying eggs in our