If you look around this site, you will notice that I visit hospitals quite a bit (makes me look like someone who is really ill). For the past few months, I have been having a lot of pain in my wrist. It hurts when it is bent at an angle and I put any stress on it.
So, I visited an orthopedic expert who has a clinic in DLF Phase I (I do not want to name him here). This person is supposed to be a very experience doctor (he probably is, and I don’t doubt it). He examined my wrist, moved it around, pressed it a couple of times, and asked me when it hurt. He immediately gave me a suspect diagnosis and asked me get an MRI done.
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I don’t need to cross the toll plaza too often as my life is centered around Gurgaon. However, there are times when I do need to go to Delhi, and for those times I had gotten a tag installed in my car a long time ago (for convenience’s sake). I thought that it would be nice since I won’t have to wait in long slow moving lines at the plaza. Or so I thought.
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It was one of those days. I love rain, but sometimes it can be such a killjoy. I love my fellow human beings, but sometime they can be such asses. Today, both my loves conspired to make it one of the worst days in recent memory. So, what do you get when you combine rain and people acting like idiots? Yes, you guessed it – traffic. We are anyway not the best at following road etiquettes around here, but for some reason, when it rains we go into hyperdrive.
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Earlier this month, New York Times did a feature on Gurgaon highlighting how slums are intermingled with expensive societies that have come up in Gurgaon. It’s titled: Inside Gate, India’s Good Life; Outside, the Servants’ Slums. While I don’t totally agree with the way the article is written (I feel it’s too criticizing in pieces), there is one point that I have always felt to be true myself and it is highlighted in the beginning of the article.
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