FortyOne ([info]arunjeetsingh) wrote,
@ 2006-07-19 22:42:00
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Excellent Work!
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If I were on one of those fancy photography award juries I'd give the photographer on this one an award. The picture is from today's Hindustan Times' front page. Can't provide a direct link because the web site's done by a bunch of neanderthal web designers who don't want to believe View Source exists.

I must have spent almost five minutes just gaping at this picture. Consider the fact that a helicopter probably wasn't used (not unless Vir Sanghvi can afford one) and the photographer probably had to beg his/her on to a nerby building's roof. The tallest one by the looks of it. Also, Delhi looks beautiful in the picture :)

Excellent, excellent work!


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[info]redobsession
2006-07-20 04:06 am UTC (link)
oh man! any clue what caused this? and yes, delhi is beautiful.

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[info]arunjeetsingh
2006-07-20 08:38 am UTC (link)
The same thing that causes this in your city (I mean Mumbai). The dreaded monsoon RAINS! Of course if we had a decent sewer system and a townhall that cared. In fact, I hear the street next to townhall was under foot deep water. Telling fact about the capital of the (supposedly) greatest democracy in the world :)

How's banagaloru doing by the way? Any flooded houses this year?

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[info]redobsession
2006-07-20 08:50 am UTC (link)
surprisingly not! no flooding this year. thank god. i hope it stays sunny till i move at the end of the month.

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Great photo!
[info]sumthn2say
2006-07-20 09:09 am UTC (link)
Oh my gawd! For once I am happy to be in Bangalaroo. Incesssant rains caused this havoc situation? Here we havent faced any such problem yet. Fingers crossed.

Just one solution to this: better drainage. Who cares?

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Re: Great photo!
[info]arunjeetsingh
2006-07-20 11:34 am UTC (link)
Apparently no one. Is that Bangalaroo or Bangaloru? I suddenly realised what the colonialists must have felt like. Too bad their language doesn't convey pronounciation as well as Hindi does :)

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P.S.: I wonder what would happen if Delhi tried changing its name to a local version. We've had at least 8 different cities in this same area. All with different names.

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[info]anupma
2006-07-20 09:46 am UTC (link)
I admired that photo in the newspaper. But I never realized when it rained so heavily? Where was I?!

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[info]arunjeetsingh
2006-07-20 11:31 am UTC (link)
Apparently God chose not to empty his bath water over west/north Delhi that day. That's a good thing if the roads in your part of the city are any indication :)

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[info]pun23
2006-07-20 12:22 pm UTC (link)
The building from where it might have been taken is Vikas minar. DDA headquarters.
The photographer wudn't have begged, he would have bribed :) Btw, this is the same building which our local politicians saw at risk after 9/11. As if the terrorists here need airplanes to blast a building.

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[info]arunjeetsingh
2006-07-20 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Seeing as how its a DDA building I don't think it'd take any more than a decent sledgehammer to bring it down :)

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[info]balaji_b
2006-07-20 05:20 pm UTC (link)
It is great to see buses tag into a single file, and all the bikes getting to one end of the road and sticking to it, rather than weaving in and out.

I sound like those NRIs pretending to be unaware.. ***embarassed***

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[info]arunjeetsingh
2006-07-23 04:47 pm UTC (link)
I don't think its as well organised as it looks. Strange as it may sound, aerial views of Delhi traffic make it look very organised. I've noticed that a couple of times when I've seen traffic from the metro (which is elevated) or from a plane on a clear day. As for this:

"I sound like those NRIs pretending to be unaware.."

The first bit is indeed true (you ARE an NRI). The second bit, fortunately, isn't :)

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2006-07-23 02:32 pm UTC (link)
I pity the poor person who unwittingly drank a big mug of tea or a huge bottle of water before driving onto that bridge!

-Ashley http://iwant2dancewithsrk.blogspot.com

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[info]arunjeetsingh
2006-07-23 04:48 pm UTC (link)
Heh. I hadn't thought about that :)

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