Delhi Visit and a Metro Travel

I had visited Delhi with my family on 25th and 26th of March. The short visit was to attend a visa interview for the Portugal Visa.

This is my feelings about Delhi after visiting it.

1) You cannot survive without speaking Hindi. The two days I spend there put my Hindi abilities into good test. My wife finally admitted that I knew Hindi. Bangalore is more cosmopolitan. Here you can survive with English, Hindi, Tamil and of course Kannada.

2) Delhi's infrastructure is amazing. Wide Roads and again Wide Roads. Being from Bangalore I was jealous with the wide roads of Delhi. I felt like relocating to Delhi except for the hot climate (it was very hot for me even in end of March) and distance from home town. My cousin told that these infrastructure improvements happened in 7-8 years. It is just great.

3) Delhi has more private vehicles and big sedans. You don't see many rickhs, bikes and small hutch backs likes Zens, Wagonar's and Santros. Small vehicles are not making chutney out of you!!!

4) Public transport is pathetic. The Buses look horrible. This might get changed soon with Metro covering new areas. You could see lot of metro constructions going everywhere nook and corner.

5) I traveled in Metro from Rajeev Chowk to Indiraprastha and back. When I was finally getting down Rajeev chowk the crowd was so bad that I had a great difficulty in getting out train. They were like hardly 20 people to get out ad 20 people to get in. The people outside are crowding at the door and had a very difficult time in getting out. Indians can't wait in queue and create a mess out of nothing. I had traveled in much more crowded metros all over the world. But this was most bad experience I had.

6) Heard of Connaught Place a lot before. But it is not up to the Bangalore's church street, Brigade road and MG road.

7) Delhi is city of Tombs. You can see Tombs of Muslim rulers, their wife's and national leaders on the banks of Yamuna. Visited Rajghat and prayed there. It was great feeling.

8) Just saw Parliament, supreme court, Rastrapathi bahvan, India gate from car while traveling through all the Marg's and all the Bhavan's. Being used to the circles and roads in Bangalore the Margs was little amusing.

9) Delhi you don't feel like youth city. You get a feeling of city of rich and powerful. Bangalore is more Gen "X" city.

Being from Bangalore I am just jealous of the Delhi Infrastructure. The roads and speed at metro construction proceeds is too amazing. Here everything is at snails pace!