Jams...

Something that fascinates me about megalopolis like Delhi and Mumbai are its traffic jams. With developing fly overs, metro rail, underpasses, and other infrastructure - we permanently find that the “work is in progress”, and our multiplying needs make sure that these boards don’t go to a locker, instead once a particular infrastructure is completed, they just shift their places to other areas. Thus a particular group of sign boards never are able to take rest! While amidst a traffic jam, we see a hundred thousand brands of cars lined up and inside each of them is a story - when I look inside a plush Skoda, I find an old gentleman (or maybe he was not old - he had deliberately whitened all his hair) reading “economic times”, as I look ahead I observed a driver adjusting his underwear in a Indica and on the left there is a group of salesman with the logo of their banks on their bags - all together, yet on different bikes - they are always in hunt for that small little gap between cars - through which they can sneak and make sure that the carwallahs give them a grudging look. Behind me is an extraordinarily dressed woman who is probably off to shopping, she takes pity on a kid selling Vogue and obliges him, but me thinks she would have picked even if a drunkard was selling the mag. 2 more cars ahead there is a middle-aged uncle, ya you guessed it - on a bajaj trying to insert the ringing mobile from the small gap available between his ears and the helmet - oh but there is more, due to winters he also has a monkey cap between his ears and helmet - now he gets fed up from trying the mobile to get through, coz the caller may cut, at last he removes his helmet, lifts his monkey cap and shouts “arrey traffic mei hu!”. A few students are crossing the road infact cutting the traffic jam by playing a car maze kind of game, where they pass, then stop, then figure, then again walk, then turn and finally before another car can reach they jump to the pavement.
Hmmm...my next topic through the lens is delhi traffic....have to capture something on my camera...have to...have to...