It rained today in Delhi and the weather became pleasant (relatively). I was very happy to see the sun hiding behind the clouds while locking my door. Then I took an auto for Lodhi road where I had to attend a meeting. During this short trip autowale bhaiya said, " aaj mausam kitna suhana hai, par traffic bohot hai ye mall wale raste pe".
This statement of his made my skeptic sense ask myself a question " If the weather is really pleasant why people are locking themselves in an AC car? Why are people not going to parks instead of malls?"
The answer which I got back was that the pleasantness after a rain is just an illusion in Delhi "pollution is not a hoax, it's real" and the "mall culture" has been injected into us just for corporate benifits. We have shifted our gardens to our terrace and parks are just left with artificial trees and plants.
