Dilli ki sardi!!

The weather today reminds me of Delhi :-(… It's getting pleasant and cold here, another fortnight and we will need warmers. And all my woolen stuff is lying back home in Delhi. So does this mean I will go back? :D:D

Hayye I wishhhhhhhhhhh….
Winters in Delhi were great fun. The only nightmare was taking bath. It was merely a formality to bathe in winters. Here be it winters or summers, you cannot take bath in cold water, you just can’t!!Central heating system keeps the house and bathrooms everything warm and cozy, it’s only when you step out that nani yaad aati hai… your nose becomes red like tamaatar and the hand movements are like robots. (ie you only move them if needed …)
Delhi was nothing less too. Though its much much colder here but what makes Delhi winters so intolerable and nani yaad dilaa de types is the fact that we don’t have all those heating facilities and arrangements that we have abroad. Yes you can put those heaters on but you need to have electricity which is a scarcity. LOL
Once me and my friend were commuting in auto rickshaw, it was early December and my goodness! we were literally screaming because that dry cold wind was unbearable. Here we have no autos, all cabs... but anyways here I have no where to go unlike Delhi.

Delhi winters meant – going to Delhi haat, eating pakoras and samosas at home, sipping coffee or tea 5-6 times in a day, eating halwa, rolling your selves in blankets 24x7. It was a torture to getup early morning & getting ready for college… and that damn fog which hampered visibility…
Here we used to go to school be it -5 and in Delhi, the moment temperature drops down to 1 or 2 the government announces off …chalo some respite for otherwise over burdened Delhi school going kids.

Another one month and its fun time in Delhi, with all those small and big time events and shows organized in the malls and cultural centres across the centre. In fact now that diwali and eid are approaching all the markets would be glitzy and decorated.

Over crowded Connaught place, India gate and Bengali market; sigh … sitting here I can just dream and imagine what all is going on there. :-(

Here all I can do is go out to a park if I want to and watch the kids swinging and their moms talking. It will be a treat to watch the snowfall and make snowmen in the garden and throwing snow balls on cars and men like water balloons the way we do it on Holi. Bad manners I know … hehe but I used to do that as a kid not anymore.

Life’s very different here.

The best thing about India is no matter how rich or poor you are, there is still some happiness on your face (at least I think so). Sadly here I feel that all people are living an over stressed and depressing lifestyle. Kissi ke chehre peh khushi nahi hai ….. Hmmm that reminds me of a song is sheher mein har shaks pareshaan sa kyon hai!!

Anyways no two nations can be alike and NOTHING can compete with the uniqueness of India and its people… I miss you India …. !