I have been playing a lot of NFS Most Wanted (Black edition, if you have to know) lately. It is a stunning game, and extremely enticing for a person who cannot spend extended hours at playing his games. Twenty minutes a day is what I spend in a race, and then the next day smile when I see a Lexus LS400 at a parking, even going around to saying, "Baby, you were great last night".
But well, this post is not about NFS. It is about the stretch of road from my home to my office. My daily commute. At night when I am playing NFS, I routinely come across tracks like this.
And then, in the morning, I drive across this.
1.3 kms stretch of a magnificient fort on the left along the road (takes me a minimum of 30 seconds to whizz past). Screeching turns, a drop which you can imagine a Porsche jumping over, a red light whose existence NO-ONE ever acknowledges, and the slow unmindful traffic drudging along.
I cross Tughluqabad every single morning, and it is a pleasure unparalleled to be able to turn your bike at high speeds through the corners. And the feeling of grandeur that I mention here is humbling at the same time. Where in India can one hope to be part of such history every single day of one's lives? These pictures have not completely captured the grandeur of what I am trying to convey here, more because anyone with a camera in delhi around 26th January clicking pictures is presumed to be making a plan to blow up the place soon. So one has to be careful about those sensitivities. These though might help.
