Delhi-Amateur observations and observations worth observing.

First, the trip was simpler than the blog title.

Amateur Observations: 1. Delhi has the maximum number of foreign tourists after Goa.
2. Delhi's winter manages to produce a thin layer of ice on top of everything (except for a human body).
3. In Delhi, if you expect a person to look back at you and smile, you have to be of some use to him/her.
4. People in Delhi have to struggle a lot to maintain the class they have been maintaining. Their car has to better than their neighbour's car.
5. After driving in Delhi for a week, Hyderabad's traffic seemed so much better.
6. Time, they want it to be in their hands, but they never realize that it has been slipping out of their hands everyTIME.

Observations worth Observing: Delhi's monuments...they are beautiful, can tell their own stories with their loud architecture, they have lesser scribblings from tourists when compared to monuments in south, and finally, their creation is history, but they are the most magnificent at present. If only everything in Delhi was as well maintained as it's monuments, i would be a bit more excited while blogging it.

What caught my attention was...the Iron Pillar at Qutub Minar cannot be touched anymore. It has a fencing around it. As a kid, i always used to go, wrap my hands around the pillar backway, and try making my palms meet each other, but impossible always. It can't happen. However, a very tall person can, because the upper half of the pillar is narrow. Anyway, this cannot be experienced now. I saw a lot of Russian Iron-men posing in front of the Iron pillar for photographs. Russians...they are all over Delhi. I was lucky enough to speak to a Russian guy who came to India a couple of years ago, went to Rishikesh, peeped so deep inside himself that he decided to stay back... to enjoy freedom...in it's state of happiness. "India has the power of transforming people", is what he said in the end.

Coming out of history and into present, Delhi has really taken advertising to the next level. There are advertisements on the name plates of apartments, there are advertisements on pencils, erasers, and I am not sure...but the mythology books pubslished in Delhi may have a Levis ad on the back cover. People in Delhi are crazy about brands. I wanted to pick some cool t-shirts from the street and my cousin looked at me like I was dropping my level of existence.

Clothes in Delhi...might be a simple thing, but I never bought an original Levis for 200 bucks before...from the showroom. 90% off. Why would anybody want to give so much discount. And, this sale is all season. Tax is exempted from clothes in Delhi.

CP- One of the most busiest places in Delhi. Could be called a shopping street. or could be called a cinema paradise, or could be called an IT arena. Depends on what you are going there for. The buildings in CP are symmetric. White in color, standing on white pillars, but the sad part is that the buildings are getting weaker everyday and might fall anytime. I am sure that if it happens on a Monday afternoon, it will kill 1/4th of the Delhi population.

Delhi is a paradise for people who like shopping, peeping into history and rediscovering themselves, people who want to live without giving a damn, people who want to compete and grow, people who want to have more affairs than kids, people who want to live in a tight place, but fly in their own free space, people who want to eat good food and carry their stomachs in their half tucked shirts, people who want to meet interesting people (Indians and foreigners), people who enough money to balance it out after they are cheated, people who can maintain standards of living inspite of not being able to maintain a constant income. Don't forget to go to the red fort. Pandit Nehru's firing speech on Indian Independence still echoes amidst the big red walls. The flag, on top of it, will make you realize how difficult was achieving freedom, and how difficult we have made it for ourselves to sustain it. The capital city awaits you.