Its amazing how visiting a city after substantial gaps gives you a unique perspective on it. And a clarity on what changes and what remains the same. So visiting New Delhi after many years it seemed that the caterpillar was trying to turn into a butterfly - one more time. A natural process accompanied by cranes, heavy machinery and the impending arrival of the commonwealth games. The city is dug up and flyovered at the same time. The Airport is modern, bright and spacious but the lines back up at the boarding gates. The engineering has raced ahead of utility so you end up getting wet if its raining when you are boarding your flight.
I also visited the City Mall in Saket - truly modern and large - great restaurants and many, many stylish, well dressed young people - a picture of an emerging India and as a retail superpower fuelled by its own population. But the swanky cars spilling society ladies for an afternoon's shopping just about anywhere and creating mini traffic jams with a certain haughty disdain meant nothing much had changed.
And the biting heat of a Delhi summer...the more things change the more they remain the same.
I also visited the City Mall in Saket - truly modern and large - great restaurants and many, many stylish, well dressed young people - a picture of an emerging India and as a retail superpower fuelled by its own population. But the swanky cars spilling society ladies for an afternoon's shopping just about anywhere and creating mini traffic jams with a certain haughty disdain meant nothing much had changed.
And the biting heat of a Delhi summer...the more things change the more they remain the same.
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