Of Going in Circles & Hoops

Unreliable sources reveal that our man AK is having sleepless nights. He can’t figure as to who were these people that he was accused of transporting to the Delhi-UP border near Anand Vihar in March and April? It is also learnt, unreliably again, that he calls Sonu Sood every night to check whether the people the Bollywood-plus-a-Jackie-Chan-film actor helped reach their native villages and towns were real people? Because real people breathe and real people die. As per The Wire as many as 971 migrant workers had died as of 4th July post the lock down but the Central Government declared in the Parliament that it has no figures! This has shocked Dilliwalahs for they are wondering what else can they do? They had religiously commented on social media using hashtags such as #MigrantsLivesMatter. Apparently these messages and tweets didn’t reach next door to Lutyen’s Bunglows on Lok Kalyan Marg or Sunheri Bagh Road? Some Dilliwalahs, this blogger believes, soak themselves in their Patiala-pegs every evening to fathom as to how did their #BlackLivesMatter tweets reach so far to the US! Ironically, Dr Harsh Vardhan, once a reasonable Dilliwalah (yes, such a breed exists!), had exact figures of how many deaths and Covid19 cases were avoided due to lockdown but his Government had no information on migrants deaths. Well, its like going round and round in circles. Last heard Sonu Sood has blocked AK’s number!

That the Parliament House is a circular building seems pretty symbolic. But all that is going to go away as the current dispensation at the Centre (circles have a ‘centre’, yes!) is going ahead with the Central Vista Project. While most Dilliwalahs may not want the character of some wonderful heritage buildings to be changed, the Government for its own absurd reasons is hell bent on the project. This absurdity reached a new height when this ill-conceived project was touted as “an important fulcrum of economic revival” by the Minister in-charge of Urban Affair (something that Nirmala Sitharaman’s 20-lakh-crore-economic-package couldn’t do). Rohit Shetty better watch out as we have one Hardeep Singh Puri who can better the Gol Maal series!

While on circles one can’t just ignore the concentric circles of shops and offices that line up the charming Connaught Place (that disproportionate, out of sync, convex shape of Gopal Das Tower notwithstanding). CP is soon going to get a 20 meters high smog tower to take care of the air quality. If nothing else, it threatens to make AK’s beloved odd-even scheme redundant. If that happens then Dilliwalahs may want to thank the SC for small mercies (and save themselves a Rupee!)

StateOfDelhi Suggests: This Delhi girl, Eshna Kutty, has been playing with circular objects called Hula Hoops for long. She is quite phenomenal and her posts on the social media are quite a rage. But last week she got into a completely different league. Her #sareeflow post where she is seen hula-hooping clad in a traditional Indian saree and snickers went viral. Moving in a poetic rhythm to that famous number from Delhi-6 she caught the imagination of Instagrammers across the globe and has been lapped up by celebrities and socialites like how! StateOfDelhi Suggests that you have a look if you haven’t checked it already:

 https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFfDwCVJHgy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link