Delhi Metro : The Prolonged Joyride

In the haphazard conundrum of the Capital City of India, even though one wants to sit comfortably in the backseat of a car when one needs to travel from one place to another, they do not do it for the mere fact that most of them do not own a car and cannot afford to take a cab for their everyday commute and wanderings. Hence, they take the Delhi Metro, which is not that bad. It is safe and secure and keeps us from well-known Delhi traffic.

The thought of taking a metro every day is quite exhausting and exhilarating at the same time. I wear myself out by taking the metro, but it is exciting to observe all sorts of people. Different stock every day. It is as bizarre as it is real because they seem all right doing all these things when you look at them. I would say it is better to take the metro because I have gotten used to it.

Most of the time when I am in the metro, I sit in the woman’s coach because it smells better than the regular coaches and females do way more cracked-up things than all the sexes in the world combined. When I sit in the regular coaches, people come in hoping to find a seat to park themselves. However, in the woman’s coach, it is entirely different. If the coach is crowded, they take up any seat they can get. However, if there are no seats available, they come and request others to squeeze themselves, so they can park half of their behinds on the seat like when you try to hang one more of your coats on a hinge that is already overloaded with a week’s worth of used clothes.

Let us suppose the coach is almost half-full. That is when they enter and try and find the corner seat. That is not at all odd because I do that too. The corner seat is kind of the first class of the metro because only one-half of your body touches strangers’ cooties.

It is like a set of televisions stacked together, like those at a news channel office. The people traveling in a metro seem like they are doing stand-up monologues or rather Charlie Chaplin mimes. Everywhere I looked, there was a person doing something different, although almost everyone had an earphone plugged into their ears. A girl was filing her nails and spreading her nail dust everywhere to my horror. Also, there were these very innocent-looking young ladies, who from their appearance looked like hospitality executives of some four or maybe five-star hotel establishments. They wore comfortable-looking rubber slippers as it seemed like they were exhausted from wearing heels all day at work. Still, they seemed content and were chattering among themselves gleefully. All the females were doing things that needed to do while these men had nothing better to do than ogle unabashed at all these females.

When you live in a metropolitan, you realize how many efforts people make just to get by. Metro helps of course. It helps people like us save money which in today’s world is one very important thing. People enter the metro sweating because of the humidity but the air conditioner bestows a soothing effect and they can stand in the almost filled coach unperturbed.

A middle-aged woman with a backpack, coming back from work because it’s almost evening and they are weary, an adolescent female child wearing a tracksuit coming back from sports practice, a very adorable looking girl wearing a ton of makeup and reading a book, hoping to get some attention, a very unusually disgruntled looking woman freaking out everyone around her and many others take the Delhi Metro every day.

According to Wikipedia, there are almost 285 metro stations and a total of 310 trains, and it has been seventeen years since the metro operation began. Still, when I look at it, it looks as good as new because it is very well managed, may it be the cleanliness or the safety.

The difficult picture that I tried to paint today through this article of my very own ‘Delhi Metro’ was one of the most effortless yet convoluted things I ever thought of writing. Of all the things worth noticing in Delhi like the ancient monuments, the food, the fashion, the culture, the passion that people have about everything, the art, and many more, the Metro is one of the most crucial and needed parts because it enables people to achieve most of the above-mentioned things. It takes people where they want to go. It saves their time and money and most of all keeps them safe.