Friday, August 20, 2010

Delhi is floating

Rain, rain and yet more rain!
For the last few days, it has been raining almost incessantly in Delhi. Consequently, the low lying areas are flooded and the roads at many vantage positions are full of water, throwing traffic out of gear. Swanky new complexes built for the impending Commonwealth Games have taken the worst hit, with seepages and water logging at every conceivable point, embarassing even the most thick skinned guy involved in their creation. Power outages, on a daily basis, have come to stay in the poshest or the so called 'VVIP areas', so one shudders to imagine the plight of the people staying in the other 'not so important areas'. And to top it all, there has been an outbreak of 'Dengue' fever, the statistics of which are being fudged for whose benefit one wonders, instead of taking bold remedial measures?
And can you beat it, Delhi's Chief Minister Smt Sheila Dikshit, announces pompously that Delhi is a world class city! Is she an ignoramus or is she blatantly lying, despite being fully aware of the reality?

Anyways, all is not lost and one learns to smile and plod through these adversities and being a Delhiite, I too join the rest, hoping that everything will go well in the end.

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