- The temperature touches 37.5 degrees and everyone starts panicking and journalists start yelling, “Lead story” “Lead story” “Lead story”…
- The shopkeeper shakes his head when you ask for cold drinks and he shows you “cool drinks” instead.
- In the evening, the temperature drops a few degrees below normal and suddenly everyone is armed with sweaters and jackets.
- You go from one one-way road to another, then another, then yet another…
- After you return from a trip to Mumbai, you wonder why everything is suddenly in slow motion.
- You drive up a busy flyover and have to suddenly screech your brakes. There’s a red light at the very top! What the…
- In the apartment where you live, there isn’t a single floor, which doesn’t have at least one ITwallah.
- You boast that you live right next door to the airport: Just 20kms from my house saar!
- Every second article in the local pages of your newspaper has the word “infrastructure” in it.
- When you go out for lunch, the sun is shining and the sky is blue with not a fleck of cloud. And yet by the time you’re leaving office, there’s a massive traffic jam because the roads are flooded after a torrential downpour and the sky is clear again!
- Your neighbour has been transferred to Delhi and you go to offer your condolences.
- You have a swank fine dining restaurant buffet and think it’s incomplete because there’s no curd rice.
- You keep telling everyone that your city is the fastest growing in Asia (or India) though you’ve never ever seen any statistics in support of that.
- No matter how many malls, arcades and shopping complexes open in your area; you still end up going to MG Road every now and then.
- You are told that your city’s Metro will be ready in 2011 and you just can’t stop laughing.
- When you return from Delhi, you think the autowallahs are sweet. When you return from Mumbai, you think the autowallahs are thugs.
- One day you’re traveling in a crowded stinking bus and the very next day you’re in a high-tech AC Volvo at the very same time on the very same route.
- You try to imagine your city without pubs and… you just can’t!
© Sunil Rajguru
well why would you offer condolences when your neighbour moves to Delhi? If i were them I would be more than happy to be there Delhi totally rules, dude
Lol… I must say I really enjoy reading ur witty posts… was nodding in agreement for every point that you made in this one…
keep ‘em coming. I think long after I finished reading Prakash’s deeply-enjoyable ‘stories’, this is for the first time I am actually enjoying reading blogs!
That’s a very Bangalore thing Shashank, will explain to you when we meet in person. And yes, Delhi rocks dude.
Great and Real, I am at the moment Gurgaon/Rohtak Wala not getting accommodation LOL
Simply Amazing every single point is true. Delhi onealso as i lived it….
Thanks Rolee and Randhir. Every city has it’s own unique quality.
Very well explained… loved this one
Awesome Sunil!
Thanks Prashant & Anon.!