A Day in the LIfe of an Urban Nose

Agarbatti, Toothpaste, Soap, Deo, Body Lotion, Sunscreen, Burnt Coal, Poha, Sambhar, Dust, More Dust, Bread Pakora, Burnt Diesel/Petrol, Chana, Burnt CNG, Dust again, Office air freshener, Sir's Perfume/Attar, Lemon tea, Four different lunches, chocolate, Fem Liquid Soap, Coffee, Apples/Oranges/Pears, Dust, Dead animal on the road, MCD garbage truck, Burnt Fuel, Burnt Dry Leaves, Smoke, Dettol Liquid Soap, Jeera tadka, Turmeric/Chilli/Coriander/Cumin, Cauliflower/Brinjal/Other vegetables, Warm Roti, Toothpaste, Cream, Hair Oil, Goodnite mosquito repellant, Old Book......................................

I wonder how Delhi looked when the monuments were the only structures around...

....it surely didnt look old, black and white or sepia like the few photographs that are found in history books. I think it would have looked the same as I see it...with colour texture and tones.

The skies and sunsets would have been equally vibrant, the monsoons as grey and the red sandstone perhaps even brighter..

How would have the city looked with just trees and stone ramparts, when forts and monuments were not special places to see during weekends ..I wish I could see this city then.

I wish I would have lived in that time, without south Delhi malls, without Bluelines, without Nehru Place, without the drone of aeroplanes in stack in the evening, without roads and without so many people.

I want to rewind this city, stop somewhere in history, get off... and stay there forever frozen in some stone wall oblivious to the mad city that ruches past it without a second glance.

Tea break at Office