Dear Dilli

Our dear Delhi. Everybody remembers their memories in city, whenever they set their foot in Delhi. My first day in Delhi was when I stepped out of the Lucknow Mail at 7:00 am on 9th July,2006. The enormous railway station which had 12 platforms left me wide-eyed. Honestly, I had not seen the city before that but had heard enough to make a rough satisfactory image to which my school mates and I had mutually agreed upon. We had discussed about Delhi in our school days, created an image about our country's capital based on the secondary or tertiary information we had managed to come across. From horrifying rape cases to the 26th January parades on television, some stories were true and others were cooked up by the people who gave us the secondary information. When I had been selected in the Delhi centre of NIFT, I recalled all my information and thoughts I had formed some time back. Everything revolved in my head from India Gate to parades to Connaught Place and rapes! All of it came as a flash when I entered the city. 


My very first impression of Delhi was the wide space which it offered to my eye. Wide roads, large spaces, big buildings. There was so much greenery everywhere as I looked outside my auto and felt a mild smell which I associate with Delhi till date. 


Delhi has taught me everything. From being loving, caring to being blunt, everything. Delhi has given me unexpected things and I have learnt quite a lot here. From being with friends in GK II and enjoying to Ansal Plaza and sitting alone chewing on a Mac Veggie. It was as if I had entered a whole new world of various activities and a life so fast that it was hard to imagine that a person like me could adjust. Leave alone cultural shocks, the city was always so bling, so fast that I had no option but to run with it. The metamorphosis took some time and then I was completely transformed to an entire new person. 


I still remember the first time I saw the chhole-kulche vala and found it very strange but now whenever I am walking down the street, I try to find one. In this city of Delhi, peace is achieved amidst the chaos and confusion. I am still waiting for my peace.