8/2/2019 Delhi's Life
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If we were to count the cities that have had the most impact on
the lives of the people all over the
world-DELHI would be the one coming amongst the top of the
charts. Home to nearly 18 millionpeople today Delhis diversity is
nowhere to be seen, not even in India or as they say Incredible
India.
From being the capital of Mughals, Sikhs, Englishmen and then of
the worlds largest democracy,
Delhi has come a long way. It has seen the pinnacle of
prosperity as well as the nadir of sabotages.
Changing their capital to Agra or Calcutta, the rulers of the
past have paid in a myriad ways, by
neglecting the benefits that Delhi offers. It was, and is the
only place where marvels of religious
harmony, such as a mosque, temple and a gurudwara on three
perpendiculars exist. Such parallelism
is hard to find anywhere in this world. Where people are killing
each other in the name of religion,
sub castes, such cities are rare. Although Delhi has also seen
some of its sons blood spill over the
same reasons, it has remained peaceful compared to any other
city in the world. The fact that Delhihas proportions of all the
homo sapiens found on this planet only proves the same.
Delhi has changed a lot in the past 2 decades. Killer blue lines
to black smoke clogged air are now the
legacies of the past (although bitter). Now a green fleet of
buses ply over its roads and metro has
come as a Silver Lining. The standard of living of the city has
soared up and Delhiites now spend and
earn many times compared to any other demesne around the
commonwealth. But everything comes
with a price. The generation of the migrated Indians(specially
Punjabis), who came from Pakistan in
1947, who constitute a large chunk of Delhis elite class, are
now finding their third progenies
becoming spendthrifts, because of the large wealth they have
accumulated, whereas the middle
class of the nineties has made its children adroit and hard
working, also by the ambience they saw intheir childhood, to become
Engineers and Doctors who will define the course of this nation for
the
next 50 years or so. The sonnies of Delhi are no less than any
celebrity and continue to inspire the
ones in the suburbs imitate them, to go in the gallows of
illiteracy, drug addiction, tipplers, and the
list goes on.
It is very easy to open an Engineering College in Delhi, and
more so in the bordering states. Actually
its a vogue in India to start engineering colleges.
Approximately 0.8 million engineers will graduate
from India in 2013 and no one knows whos going to absorb them
all including me. Coming to Delhi,
here the engineering colleges are of distinct nature in contrast
to rest of the nation. Having a 8 room
house with a facility to keep computers is enough to start an
engineering college. But there are onessimilar to the above giving
tough stage to the big names.
Likening the engineering colleges, the number of schools is
nominal, at least on paper, if not in
reality. So the parents have to pay hefty sums to get their
wards (as schools call them) to schools.
Some law has been passed but its the same as was always.
After doing much ado about nothing, lets talk business.
Delhis the biggest economical hub after Mumbai. Still, the
influx of the countrymen from UP and
Bihar show, that it has surpassed the city on the beaches of
Arabian Sea. Traders in Delhi vary from
the conventional ones, occupying the filth drenched narrow
alleys of Old Delhi, to the ones trading
for a ride on a Chinese Rickshaw. Actually the latter ones have
grown into a humongous cartel
