Why modi won and not bjp ! To imagine bjp winning more than half the seats in the offing this election was unimaginable - 2 years back . Even when led by vajpayee in 1998 the bjp secured a mere 24 percent votes. Nobody really knows whats in gujarat !!! Is there any development or there is just this hype and all pervasive engulfing image thats portrayed. But what an average indian knows is Congress has been involved in scams - not 1 or 2 but many spanning multiple thousand crores of indian rupees .. India' s image was irreversibly damaged by the CWG scam . Inflation reached its peak and a roti was now costly ( I eat rice ) .. Modi is now India's most popular stranger. who has sold us something much more than tea ( With all due respect to the chai wala ) . He has sold us hope . Hope sustains life and we have all bought it from him . The young Indian has given his mandate , he/she can wait no more !!
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Thursday, 23 January 2014
The City of Delhi in the eyes of a Fish eating Mangalorean !
Its been quite a time in Delhi now . Delhi has been magnificently different from what i thought it would be. Well did i use the right term .
Yeah i think i did. Its vibrant and has wide roads and many of those monuments we read about in school.
Although i expected it to be an ideal city which showcases India to the world - surely as it must as the national capital , in many ways it doesn't . Reasons cannot be 1 or 2 but are plenty and so many . Only if the hygiene is better served and also the colonies (yes people live there) are to be more organized and the houses completed in construction and sewage better treated ,then it would beautify the city !!
Yes i have a food problem here , a huge huge one . My stomach which demands rice is slowly learning to make friends with roti .Since we Mangaloreans have found 100 different ways of cooking fish and 1000 different delectable ways of eating it , Delhi offers no solace . The first time i ate fish here was when my friend Meena (her name actually means fish - not joking ) cooked it specially for me . That day a fish ( actually i ate at least 2 ) swimming care freely in the rivers of Yamuna sacrificed its life to appear at my platter ! Notwithstanding the fish's emotions , that day (actually night) was like finding ocean in a barren land ( registaan mein gaon ki jaisa tha voh - then i could relate
to this song better).
Delhi metro has been an amazing ride and to cover 143 stations is a no easy task . To handle 2.2 crore people the city is really struggling .But what i make out from the old timers in the city is that the essence of the city is in being unorganized . Does being unorganized add to being dynamic and vibrant !! Some people feel yes , some people feel no . I would give it a BIG BIG NO. I think Delhi is over targeted
as not being safe for women (many a times have felt men are not safe here - Delhi girls mere bhai ) . After 10 pm even London is not safe for women !! Anyways am blending into the Delhi culture - enjoying parts of it and at the end of it , yeah am not complaining !!!..
Yeah i think i did. Its vibrant and has wide roads and many of those monuments we read about in school.
Although i expected it to be an ideal city which showcases India to the world - surely as it must as the national capital , in many ways it doesn't . Reasons cannot be 1 or 2 but are plenty and so many . Only if the hygiene is better served and also the colonies (yes people live there) are to be more organized and the houses completed in construction and sewage better treated ,then it would beautify the city !!
Yes i have a food problem here , a huge huge one . My stomach which demands rice is slowly learning to make friends with roti .Since we Mangaloreans have found 100 different ways of cooking fish and 1000 different delectable ways of eating it , Delhi offers no solace . The first time i ate fish here was when my friend Meena (her name actually means fish - not joking ) cooked it specially for me . That day a fish ( actually i ate at least 2 ) swimming care freely in the rivers of Yamuna sacrificed its life to appear at my platter ! Notwithstanding the fish's emotions , that day (actually night) was like finding ocean in a barren land ( registaan mein gaon ki jaisa tha voh - then i could relate
to this song better).
Delhi metro has been an amazing ride and to cover 143 stations is a no easy task . To handle 2.2 crore people the city is really struggling .But what i make out from the old timers in the city is that the essence of the city is in being unorganized . Does being unorganized add to being dynamic and vibrant !! Some people feel yes , some people feel no . I would give it a BIG BIG NO. I think Delhi is over targeted
as not being safe for women (many a times have felt men are not safe here - Delhi girls mere bhai ) . After 10 pm even London is not safe for women !! Anyways am blending into the Delhi culture - enjoying parts of it and at the end of it , yeah am not complaining !!!..
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