Delhi has had the Metro now for over a year... yesterday was the first time I went on it.
It is done beautifully... big, spacious & definitely at par with any other international rapid transit system. It actually might be better than the London Tube or New Yorks' Subway. It for sure is cleaner and more spacious.
I went from Connaught Place ( Metro stop - Rajiv Chowk) to Chandni Chowk.. the culture shock is extreme ..walking into a modern granite subway station, exiting from a similar modern structure into the sprawl & confusion of Chandni Chowk.
The Metro is large, new, modern, clean, spacious, sharp edged.
Chandni Chowk is cramped, suffocating, smelly, dirty & weathered with age.
The Metro & Chandni Chowk are diametrical opposites. Yet, they exist side by side and fuse into each other... alot like our everyday lives. Up-to-date yet so entwined with our history & culture.
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Oh wow! Thats a coincidence that we both have written about Chandni chowk this week (just published my post and then surfed onto yours after a while and found this!)! Totally agree with you that the contrast between the metro and the exit is too sharp! One's like wow inside the metro and then transported into a totally different world after climbing the escalator to the exit! Hehe..
MORE POSTS! WE WANT MORE POSTS!
hi maya,
here by chance...
have heard lot about metros...
coming to delhi this november and then definetily have a ride on metro....
take care...
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