Delhi summers are to die of. Not for. Come school vacations and Delhiites head for the hills in droves—the middle class to domestic hill stations and the affluent to ‘foreign’ ones. Those constrained by work schedules take refuge in air conditioned offices and homes. Shopaholics abandon the open air markets and head for air conditioned […]
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Delhi Beat: Traffic Snarls!
A neighbour’s teenaged children leave home every evening for about an hour when it’s time for him to come home. Visits to friends, trips to the market, or to the sports complex, are all scheduled around this time to avoid Dad, who comes home spitting and snarling as a result of having battled Delhi’s office […]
Delhi Beat: A Mouthful of Memories
“Every time I come to Delhi, I find it completely changed”, wails a childhood friend who has lived away from the city of her birth ever since she got married. Indeed, she has reason to lament. Her annual, long visits to the capital are enlivened by manic shopping excursions to all the main markets of […]
The Power Of Bhakti
We live in troubled times. We gasp in horror at the scams and scoundrels who surface every now and then, begin to voice our hopes when people like Anna Hazare talk of reform and wait for another round of media blitzkrieg to unite us emotionally – even if it is the next Indo-Pak cricket face […]