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It takes me an hour to reach office on a real good day. Traffic jams... red lights. And the numerous children who throng and beg at these red lights, offering to clean windscreens and wishing for your love life to succeed. Little children, no more than 10, scurry about in the hot Delhi summer from car to car, hoping for that one rupee coin flung at them. It breaks my heart, though I made a decision long time back never to give them money! So I stack up on biscuits and sweets and hand it to them when they come knocking on my window. After all the money they collect is never theirs. The begging mafia uses these little kids as fronts to fleece us. But what about those kids? In our daily scramble to reach from point A to B, to reach our offices and mindlessly....

delhi in my belly

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All this talk of Delhi on it's way to becoming a world-class city is hogwash. Utter drivel. IMPOSSIBLE! I'm not being a pessimist, but a world-class city isn't made because of its glass and steel skyscrapers, or the expressways and definitely not by it's multi acre malls. A city becomes world class because of its people. And Delhites aren't people. We are animals. We still can't enjoy the wide roads and expressways because we haven't learnt to drive in a straight line!!!Lane driving is Sane driving, scream the many boards put up at strategic points on our roads, but we still take pride in being insane. Civic sense is something that can only be beaten into us, on our own free will; we'll never want to be civilized. We park cars blocking roads, chatter on our cell phones while driving without a care in the world. Throw rubbish outside....