Mai thha aur thhi dilli buss !!

Rabbi shergill with his song DILLI has given Delhi what it clearly deserved, but just sometime back I had this staunch ‘no no’ for this city. Delhi being my native place I’ve been a regular visitor here so all I felt about it was … It had major electricity problem, water too, evening’s are quite boring, difficult to commute, people here are damn self-centered and self- interested, they don’t have courtesy, all brats shoving off their father’s money. So I come here again, this time I have a different agenda: WORK, yeah surprisingly it has become my 1^st work place. Till last year I never wanted to come to Delhi again, but as they say “Sometimes you got to do things you never expected, but this time you might just like it”.Yeah, that’s what’s quietly happening; I am starting to like Delhi a bit(just a bit). It’s cleaner, larger and eventful in political terms and with the Delhi metro on, it’s quite a cake walk commuting around the city now. But let me talk about the other beautiful things I like about the city, some of them I’ve always liked, while some I’ve started to like during this trip…

One thing I’ve always loved about Delhi is the “names people have here”, they stand out, north Indian people have generally wonderful names, I would rarely get a chance to spell out names like “ palak, shobhit, rashi, anshuman” in Mumbai where names are very common, we are filled with sunil’s, rahul’s and kunal’s. So keep it up guys,that’s something I have always looked upon when I come to Delhi and the other northern planes. Also the fact that, I’ve never seen more beautiful girls anywhere, I have traveled almost everywhere in the country, but none can beat Delhi chicks, Hats off to you…keep up the colors, the flashy outfits, no one in India carries them as well as you do

Food!! Mann it’s amazing here, everywhere you have something or the other frying, baking, you might easily gain a couple of kgs in a while. I remember when I was here in the vacation after my SSC (10^th boards) I gained around 4 kgs. in one and a half months. So people, who are calorie conscious, you need to be careful about this place, resist all the food you get here!!

Now its time for things I have started liking starting this trip: spanking clean Delhi, extreme large roads, freakin easy commutation thanks to Delhi metro. It’s as good as anything in the country (I will dedicate a special post on it later) and it makes me really excited about the prospects of the Mumbai metro which will start in around 3-4 years time. Delhi now seems to have the new effervescence. As rabbi Shergill rightly says “bhatakta iska vidhan hai”. People in Delhi try to be as modern a; undoubtedly they have the best fashion quotient in the country. While on the other side Delhi has a distinct history, it’s the Hasthinapur of India; it has the old Qutub Minar, Nizamuddin tomb and the Red Fort so people and the place are still together getting their modernity quotient right.

So for me the first few days at Delhi have been surprisingly cool, never before I’ve been to GK, Connaught place, Gurgaon, karol bagh Palika bazaar in the first ten days. Thanks to work and some relatives. Yeah but let me briefly touch upon things I still hate about it: surely people here are extremely conscious about themselves ,probably that’s the history relation of this place, big maharajas have lived here some centuries ago and ego still lives on for ages and will always. Also the fact that Delhi as a city is quite confusing, the same kind of buildings everywhere difficult to understand this place even after a lot of efforts by the government, everything looks the same, difficult to set landmarks.

There are a lot things Mumbai needs to learn from Delhi now; first of all we have to get stringent on the encroaching and the rehabilitation issue. Even after huge opposition Delhi govt. was able to carry out the sealing plan and they’ve done quite a formidable job.. yeah at the end of all, if someone would ask me would you want to settle in delhi, I would say ‘no’ coz I love Mumbai so much. Yes we clearly say that Mumbai is not as good as Delhi today but I am sure we will easily beat you as soon as the commonwealth games get over. So delhietes and mumabites alike its your turn to think and write down things you like about each other and something you hate about your own city or the latter city ….get set go!!!