The steam tube called Delhi
The weather, in Delhi and suburbs in June and July, is good if it rains. If it doesn’t, then we are in a steam bath. The rains will bring in untold problems of
water logging after the rains even though the temperature will come down very
well and the breeze will be cool.
Our little Maruti car did it well at eighty in the Express
way which is a good road from Noida to Delhi.
The oft-driven route was a joy again to drive through. Only place it slowed down is at Pragati
Maidan where one has to be very careful as vehicles move inch by inch here, up until the High Court and beyond till one
enters the circle of India Gate. Once we
turn left at the end of Pragati Maidan we closein at the long red light near
the end of the Old Fort. Here we can
stop and relax as the red light duration is pretty long here. Once we stop and relax one can see a lady
driver ahead continuously making up her hair, another typical regular Delhi
Driver keeps his driver door open and elaborately spits paan juice (paan is
generally a mixture of betel leaves, areca nut, calcium and at times a pinch of
tobacco) to the road. Road is considered to be a regular place to
spit, if one can stop for long. As betel
chewing is a normal phenomenon which is a heritage.
The number of vehicle on the road is increasing day after
day due to the rapid progress being made in all circles including the
increasing number of car companies exhorting one and all to own one’s own
vehicle.
Once in the circle of India Gate, the traffic is smooth and
we take our smooth turns at our required road to the beautiful Raj path Road
from which we go to our Krishna Menon Marg.
The little ‘Gnat’ fighter planes displayed at the Air Headquarters are
unmistakably awe inspiring as they are small and had done their heroic bit in
the 1971 war which had made several heroes and a new history !
We visited our Bank Branch of State Bank of India where with
all the cooperation of all concerned we could get only half our work done. Many a time things are like that here! The first officer directed us to another
officer for getting a renewal of an
account which we required badly. The officer
to whom I was to approach was surrounded by several people with a lot of papers
in their hands. They were all standing
to get a linking of the ‘Aadhar’ which is a unique identification. The officer concerned under a lot of pressure
of the work volume, still, took my paper and offered to do it. But, then the computer printer would not
work. He tried to coax the printer into activity for long and ultimately
failed. Then he turned to his desk top for
other works other than printing. Then
the work won’t go further as the server
was not working. That was the end of our
tether.
We thought of riding back before the office release as the
officials returning from office work will swell on the roads.
Our assumption did not fail.
We got a generally free road through which we flowed back for forty five
minutes to reach home in the evening breeze.
The moment we got down it started perspiring. The humid climate will
persist till a good rain lashes Delhi and suburbs. Hopefully in the next three four days.
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