etc. Once we happened to share a room in a star hotel. The official work was over and we prepared to check out the next day. I moved out first leaving him to pack up and quit. After several mi

to pour milk into the pot so as to bathe the idols on the occasion of the festival. People carried the milk in closed containers and opened them only at the time of filling up the mud pot. The mud pot was tied at a height on to a mast and it's practically not possi

e in Okla Estate starting the next day and to last for a week. It made us have a night's stay in my friend's place as our arrival in Delhi was late in the evening. And Okla Estate wasn't near. It seemed my friend paid a visit to his uncle after a pretty long time. He was engrossed in exchange of family wellbeing with his aunt. I was offered a comedy show playing on the T.V. I watched the show and simultaneously looked about the house. There were many photographs hung on the wall of the drawing-room. His uncle looked smart in hi

ady r

you may not get rice but only bread with butter or chapatis with dal i

ho're not used to Delhi food, it may look delicious f

o ahead with your food of rice, rasam, and snake

ove only vegetarian food. Their only issue is a boy and now a

yal was so delicious. She served copious curd. The dinner was over with a cup of badam milk. I t

s are sold fresh and at subsidized rates. When you cook wit

ty, " said Sekar

then they take away sizable money from your wallet towards rent etc. "Both of you can go upstairs and slee

ess, pillows, and bed covers all neatly washed and kept. Tired over the long journey from Madras we fell asleep even as we discusse

nd here's my friend Sundar. We two are deputed to take a refresher cour

oom door was ajar.

y friend's uncle. He's gigantic, cleanly shaven, and partly bald. "Hey friend don't

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en you're finished. I'll

n a number of ways the first visit to Delhi shaped my day to day activity. It may sound trivial but it served a social policy. How many households leave the bathroom in such a way that the next man who enters the same bathroom doesn't frown? It's a pleasure to see a neat and clean bathroom. My friend's uncle, the military man at Delhi had told me how it'd be disgusting to see a bathtub half-filled with dirty water. That water when collected in t

o shun their unwanted guests! If someone is aware of this code but if that someone still insists on repetition then that's the aberration. This is more so because such someone is definitely not

hennai or Bengaluru. The reason they say is Delhi is a Union Territory and the rates of essentials and other commodities are subsidized for the benefit of people living in Delhi. I've no idea what rate they collect for a liter of milk now. The one thing I remember