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Dilli For Me.

Ooty. Wellington. Mhow. Manipur. Bangalore. Saugar. Udhampur. Srinagar. Delhi. These are all the places I have lived and done my schooling in. When people ask me where have you studied? Which city? Which School? I have nothing to say. Or let’s put it this way: I have too many schools, and too many places to name. So I just say: I have gone to schools located all over the country. And I often have to add one more line to explain why I said what I said. But one place I have always identified with and always will is my very own Bengaluru. So in spite of people calling me a ‘pseudo Banglorean’ I still prefer to say that I am from Bangalore. However off late people have come up to me and said- “You look like a typical Delhi Girl”. Having done the last two years of my school and graduation from Delhi I guess it’s but natural for me to have certain traits of what people call “a typical Dilli girl”. I hated the tag initially. I hated Delhi completely when I lived in the city. I always compar...

Delhi-6 / Dilli-6

ज़र्रे ज़र्रे में उसे का नूर हैं झांक खुदमे वह न तुझसे दूर हैं इश्क़ हैं उससे तोह सबसे इश्क़ कर इश्क़ हैं उससे तोह सबसे इश्क़ कर इस इबादत में यही दस्तूर हैं इस में उस में और उस में हैं वही इस में उस में और उस में हैं वही यार मेरा हर तरफ भरपूर हैं ~~ Prasooon Joshi ~ Delhi 6 A delightful change from the usual Bollywood flicks, Delhi 6 is an interesting musical based on the Old Delhi area of the national capital. 11000 6 is the pincode for OdlDelhi and that's where the movie gets it's name from. However, I am sure a lot of the flks who watched the movie would have rather titled it "Kaala Bandar" instead. The story revolves around the culture shock that the protagonist Roshan (Abhishek Bachchan) goes through when he travels from the US to India to leave his terminally ill grandmother (Waheeda Rahman), who wants to spend her last days in the city she has spent her life in. the movie takes you through the day to day lives of the residents of D...