I was coming to Gurgaon in a bus today and it was an ordeal of some sort. It took me 3 hours to complete the journey which should have taken half the time. The traffic jams at three places should be blamed for this while Government can be cursed for everything. The cause of traffic jams was different at different places.

The first traffic jam happened because a flyover is being constructed there. The part of the road is under construction so the road width has decreased causing narrower exodus of vehicles than before. The Govt. is making significant investments to improve the infrastructure of Delhi and to equip the city to host Commonwealth Games in 2010.

The cause of the second jam was some rainfall last night which clogged the roads with rainwater. The same road is said to be one of the best in the capital and it’s a kind of shame when the movement of vehicles slows down because of something as mundane as drizzle. Has the govt. invested the money wisely in creating the highway? Didn’t engineers should have taken rain into account before making highway?

The third cause was the long(est) queue at a Toll bridge. The Govt. charge money from every single vehicle which enters Gurgaon from the capital so that they can have fuller treasury to invest on making more highways which clog down after some rain.

When you do something you advertise that you can do it. The govt. of India is advertising its inability to make smart investments in infrastructure because advertising doesn’t have to be loud every time.

A group of desperate bachelors (including myself) were sitting in Al Bake at New Friend’s Colony Community Center . It’s a nice little place which has made its name by selling the finest shawarma in New Delhi. I was along with my friends and we had ordered shawarma and noodles. Meanwhile we talked about certain things and then this topic emerged inadvertently about the Indian men. One friend said that Indian men needs to be more appreciative of the rise of women and one must respect their aspirations which opened the topic for others to chip in. The other one talked about how we must not let them to dictate us which they do in a relationship. The last comment sounded unreasonable and very vague but nobody actually said anything in return to that. Then came the turn of joker of our group who said that Indian men are the most ‘gentlemanly’ in the world with two reasons to prove his point.

First reason being that Cricket is called the gentleman’s game so by the sheer number of cricket aficionados in India, it makes it clear that almost every Indian men is a gentleman.

Second reason is the reluctance of Indian men to say ‘NO’ to women and that is one reason why India is a country of billion people.

We were convinced with our joker’s attempt to entertain us while delicious shawarma had arrived.