Dehlavi

  The road to Triveni is not one I would have normally taken. But there was some magic in that moment, in that month, and in my company. It was then that I was really walking into uncharted territories, and boating through previously "untasted" waters. But I had two lovely friends, who made it all the more enjoyable. Probably the most memorable afternoon, last September.  Why do I demarcate and designate this one afternoon as separate from every other warm and sunny (read, even scorching hot) afternoons that I have spent walking alone in the Central Secretariat? Every other time, It is a personal delight for me to get down the metro, come out of the wrong gate, gaze for a while or two at the roadside dargah , and then taking a walk to my second home at Delhi, the National Museum (you never knew I am so weird, right?) These are things I have never shared with many people. But this afternoon was different. I had two dear friends; we had taken a cab (sometimes, spoilt brats...

  That one thing which always struck me when I started living in Delhi--more than its food, locales, and people--this term, "Delhiite"? Who is a Delhiite? Really, a very enigmatic question and I am still grappling with this question, after three years of my stay in this beautiful city, that is Delhi. I remember the first year of my undergraduate study in Delhi. Everywhere I went, this one term captured my imagination like nothing else. It was a term you were supposed to know. Are you a Delhiite? I never came across this term in the IDiva videos I binged upon. I never came across this term in my most favourite TV serial, where the protagonists stayed in East Delhi and Central Secretariat, and fell in love at the Humayun's Tomb!! But as you step in Delhi, you ought to know who is a Delhiite!! I thought of possible ways to answer this question. It may be someone who resides in Delhi. But for how long do you need to stay in Delhi to  be identified as a Delhiite? Some people w...