The city's largest "golchakkar"

Today I took a stroll down Janpath, the Cardus of the Indian capital. Lutyens may have done much damage to the place or may have created a masterpiece...whatever the stand, the fact remains, these roads nearly 75 years later still function better than most of those built by "apna DDA." True he was merely painting a very autocratic picture on a very large canvas, true that we continue to cling on to that canvas as our pride and joy and also true that we have happily accepted this British "acropolis" as a willing hand-me-down without much inclination to alter it let alone replace it. The question remains, "could we have done any better?" The answer lies in the 15 minuite traffic clogs that jam the cities life lines. One could however argue that while at the end of the day, lacs of weary Delhites who make their way through these bottled up routes, only one man with his smart entourage, returns home to "Rashtrapati Bhavan".