Delhi afresh

Back to Delhi and what a change. We have been away for two whole months and in that time the grass has sprung and turned a vibrant green, the trees are dusted down and dreamy and the earth is pliable like plasticine. Plants push their frenzied way to the top as if there is a competition on. Everywhere there is growth and a lushness that almost shocks.Some of the road works have progressed astonishingly fast, some of the pavements have been completed and the barriers put on the MG road to detract cows at least from the central reservation, if not from the motorway.Progress, progress all round, fabulous.

The garden is a delight and this is what has greeted me so I am smiling inspite of the heat and the humidity.

Then today, a  few days or so into our return and another familiar scene re- appears. The electricity in the quarters is not working. The hot water geezer in the kitchen is melting my pots, there is a leak from the fridge or the water cooler or both and one of the vents of the living room A/C is not opening.

We travel down the Mandi road after an hour of rain and there are floods everywhere and people getting soaked and splattered by rude drivers who drive too fast. Precious rain water stagnates in the sewers and the road becomes impassable for all. And after years of this happening still no effective drainage or water preservation for this life giving commodity. Who is to blame ? Who suffers ?

So not that much has changed after all.....

Short post today gotta chase all the workmen waiting hahahahaha to enter into a dialogue which as always will be part surreal, part Hindglish and part take your pick as to what the outcome will be !