Category: Delhi’s Underbelly

Just the other day, someone asked me which city I consider home. It really set me thinking about all the cities where I spent some time of significance – Delhi of course but also Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. But Delhi

Whether we like it or not, we Indians are beginning to speak more American than English. And the biggest reason is the growing use of Americanisms. Mind you, I am not completely averse to them, as I use a few

The rainbow world of fellow travellers on the Delhi Metro (Metroites?) is great fun. And what the metrolife also exposes you to is all that happens during the walk to and from the stations. Some that really make me go

Delhi has everything it takes to be a clean and well-ordered city. Being the country’s capital, it does not have to go around with a begging bowl for money. Hence the wide tree-lined roads, most of them in a reasonably

The walk from the metro station to office takes me down Parliament Street towards Palika Bazar. The first stretch is quite sterile as it in front of the police station and is rather close to the public protest site near

One of the great things about travelling in the metro is the range of people that you encounter. Since I travel largely on the Yellow Line which goes to the university, there are a lot of young people on it.