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Jaitley’s brethren withdrew the Laddoos on offer for Dilliwalahs rather unceremoniously. One Laddoo per family was being offered as a gesture of appreciation (or was that appeasement?) for the spirit shown byDilliwalahs in overcoming the hardships of Demonetization without creating riots or organised protests (https://stateofdelhi.blogspot.in/2016/12/two-delhi-boys-and-laddoos.html ). The Asian Age claimed the withdrawal was primarily at the behest of RSS. It seems the big boys (they have graduated to wearing trousers now) of Nagpur wanted to gauge the mood of the people till end of December before celebrating. That it’s mid-January now and there is no news of Laddoos perhaps tells us something. And it obviously has nothing to do with the fact that 42.5% of Dilliwalahs are diabetic for Jaitley’s portfolio is Finance, not Health.

Winters are finally in (yes, finally!) with the mercury dipping substantially and Dilliwalahs bingeing on paranthas in the afternoon and on scotch (IMFL too gets referred to as ‘scotch’ here depending on the area’s PIN Code) from late afternoon. The cold winds at Civil Lines brought in a change of guard. Najeeb Jung quit as Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and then went on to give a rather candid interview to Karan Thapar ripping apart the ways of Arvind Kejriwal as CM. Well, for once Jung didn’t matter to Kejriwal as news came that our CM wants to be others’ CM.  No sooner was this hinted, Dilliwalahs uncorked their coveted Duty Free bubbly. The denial, however, came in much before the hangover got over.

The inner and middle circles of Connaught Place will become car-free sometime soon and if NDMC (the municipality that controls most of Lutyens’ Delhi*) allows the eateries to setup seating in the open spaces that is currently consumed by car parking – the good old United Coffee Houses, Wengers and Volgas may bring back the romance of CP (remember Ramble, anyone?).

* CP though was not designed by Lutyens (as is believed) but by Robert Tor Russel.

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  • Manoj Maheshwari, January 22, 2017 @ 5:38 am Reply

    Sir, love the way your sentences end and unfold the messages. and the mention of One almost-Nawab of Old Delhi Haveli who became puppet Lieutenant to dance and perform to ways of his master half responsible for the chaos in Delhi, half shared by the hedge sitter CM…

  • Namita Sharma, January 22, 2017 @ 5:40 am Reply

    ‘The Pin code for scotch’ amused me to no end. Its funny how the nomenclature changes as the Pin code changes more so for the luxury items!! In place of hathon mei laddoo people could do with a few notes from the ATM.

  • Suman Singh, January 23, 2017 @ 5:39 am Reply

    Giraj, the deeliwalas are always spirited be it scotch or the enthusiast…They adjust to all

  • Surabhi Sharma, January 24, 2017 @ 5:39 am Reply

    Refreshing (albeit smog-lined) news for us Dilliwallahs about CP going

  • Giraj Sharma, February 6, 2017 @ 5:32 am Reply

    Pranthas, Scotch & an Exit
    Jaitley’s brethren withdrew the Laddoos on offer for Dilliwalahs rather unceremoniously. One Laddoo per family was being offered as a gesture of appreciation (or was that appeasement?) for the spirit shown by Dilliwalahs in overcoming the hardships of Demon…

  • nirupama paul, February 6, 2017 @ 5:33 am Reply

    Always enjoy reading :)

  • Pratima Ram, February 6, 2017 @ 5:33 am Reply

    Liked the humor – ” IMFL too gets referred to as ‘scotch’ here depending on the area’s PIN Code “

  • Sanjeev Malhotra, February 6, 2017 @ 5:34 am Reply

    Apparently they wanted to get Thaggu Ke Laddoo (Kanpur fame). But Thaggu refused to sell, saying one thug cannot do business with another. So we need to be contented with “scotch” and parantha.

  • Rajeev Mehajan, February 6, 2017 @ 5:34 am Reply

    Wonderful news on the space…. much deserved n desired! And thanks for letting the lesser mortals like me know who designed Delhi…. cheers for scotch n paranthas!!

  • Giraj Sharma, February 6, 2017 @ 6:18 am Reply

    Hahahaha! Absolutely!

  • Robin, February 21, 2017 @ 11:34 pm Reply

    It’s going to be ending of my day, however before end I am reading this wonderful paragraph to increase my experience.

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