01
Oct

Some musings on the sad state of our city!

Yes, this term ‘Rajpath’ was what was used by a great visionary sitting at the helm of affairs, many years ago, when he and his team embarked on the outlandish project of putting up granite balustrades all along our Dasara procession route.
These balustrades, according to his own proud proclamation, were intended and even promised to make our procession route a rival of its namesake in New Delhi, along which our Republic Day parade marches. It took a full three years for this dream to even begin to blossom and after its long and slow march, it took less than three months to fall down and meet the dust, like the short-lived blossoms that the sixteenth century English poet, Robert Herrick laments about, in his very touching poem, ‘To Blossoms.’ In its very first paragraph Herrick writes:
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do you fall so fast?