YEH DILLI HAI MERE YAAR!

What is not possible everywhere is possible in Delhi, indeed! You can get anything to everything at the roadside; sim cards are also available at corner stalls. But the most magnificent thing that one notices is the begging tradition of Delhi. If you are walking by the road and you find a beggar (transgenders are common now a days) coming to your side and you underestimate him/her then you are surely a fool. Because now he will follow you till the time you thrust your hand into your pocket and take out enough money. You in a way pay him/her to let you go.

            Though beggars are everywhere in the world, Delhi-ite beggars are unique they make a difference. Once I was coming along my friend in an auto from north campus, our auto stopped at a red light and one transgender came and asked us to give him or her (‘m a bit confused) money. The auto driver asked her to leave us as we were students but she said “inse toh pure 50 lungi”. She wanted fifty rupees! I asked the driver to drive away from her and for our unpleasant surprise she was no longer outside the auto, she was just “fixed” beside my friend. For a minute or two we were thrilled, and then we begged her to leave and bargained for twenty rupees. Being a kind human being she agreed and boarded off the auto. Since then I always get terrified whenever my auto stops at any red light. One could have more disastrous accidents in Delhi. For such unique things only happen in Delhi! Beware, YEH DILLI HAI MERE YAAR!