To Delhi-conclusion

              A place which had gone through invasions after invasions; its people forcefully converted; the native rulers conquered, and the new foreign rulers overrun by another power. Much has gone into the minds of the people, and a lot has been forgotten; remembering and restoring them intact with less practical intelligence could only prove detrimental, but this lacking in them also creates a confusion which makes people behave in a rather weird fashion. A society which could otherwise have been quite open and forward-looking has become humiliated and quite protective. Like in other places, those at the top are the people who are as rich as any affluents in downtown New York. To them the place is always on the move with all the modern features one can find in any metropolis. It’s easy for them to bring in something strange and get used to it, unlike those who have been left untouched, though they exist in the same place. The new glittering recent imports only compound their confusion and out of this they behave in uncontrolled fashion without guidance but not without a fear which could come down only if those at the highest top have concluded to act against them.

           More than sixty years after independence and more than two decades after opening its economy the place, the political capital, seems to have no alternatives to rice sacks in which many still carry their belongings on their heads and board one of the most modern form of transport.

            With the unavailability of space in the old place, new places have to be created on the peripheries, thus pushing out the untouched people further. For those with feudal ancestry ,they have made millions, while leaving those who depended on their farms for existence to abject poverty ; in clusters of cardboard shacks and the worst form of wretched wandering about the glittering, prospering places, only rubbing more salt into their wounds, while their former malicious employers honking their ways through in Pajero and Land Cruiser. Such a place, which provides so much to look at and a lot to admire when one looks at it from a distance, and when one hops from one glass building to another, and sneaking out once in a while to shop at the recently-built shopping mall, while les miserables crawling in between the alleys of the glassed-over buildings.