May 15, 2009

Delhi is SOOO Weird!!!

In my entire life, I have not lived in too many cities, but I live to tell the fable of Delhi. This city has to be the slowest, most crowded, noisy, overrated and HOT. Even the winters are not the same anymore. Just imagine, a hot day in the city, you are juggling between office and some personal work, and you're on the road. Look around, half the shops around will be shut, traffic will be slow and haphazard. You will encounter many stylish looking cars, sunlight just dropping crystals on the suave display and bouncing off, yet some sonofaXXXXX will be driving it like a snake in the grass.

Then, you reach a bank branch and your levels of irritability are tested further. The floor is wet because certainly, someone has forgot or given up, one of the two reasons, for not mopping the floor. The branch is extremely old, and is obviously not looked after, as is evident from the old staircase, and the slew of air coolers that are put up everywhere. ACs anyone??? The documents arrive, and keep flying off thanks to the cooler.

The officer in front of you keeps entertaining people who have come after you, taking her time to answer their queries, proving she is truly a human relations expert in the field. Obviously, she forgets someone's already sitting in front of her, checking her watch to see that's probably an hour she's been out of office.

Coming back to Delhi, do not forget to visit places such as Green Park, Defence Colony or Vasant Kunj to see how opulence and grandeur get redefined, beaten and changed to something as grotesque as a cheap trail of tragicomedy.

1 comment:

IS said...

Forgetting what I have to say about Delhi (which is what you said and plus some more)... my only question is--When? When did you write this? You came and left again... so when??