kashmere gate station 8:45pm

my first post in 2007

came back from dehradun after a shoot
took a bus which put me down at ISBT

normally the next ten minutes
would be spent arguing with
an auto guy and then a one hour ride
through traffic choked streets to
karol bagh
this time
i decided to take the metro

the station at the bus adda
is huge
and confusing
i know that the stations in old delhi
go down five floors and all that
but here i didnt even know
how many time i went up and down
before i reached the actual platform
one possible reason was that
i could not figure out which of the four was mine

anyways i get onto the train
an old gent asks me
whether it will go to haus qazi

i almost blurt out not yet maybe in a couple of years
someone else nods
turns out they were not talking about HAUZ KHAS
but HAUS QAZI
which is of course in old delhi
thankfully no one noticed my red face

a group of girls in burqa were making plans
to go to an ice cream joint
while a lala was talking
on his giant nokia phone
(the one that opens up)

the fun thing was the entire trip
(which meant changing trains at CP)
took about 25 mins

A was waiting at the pusa road station
and i was home in half hour
what fun !!!