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Wed, Dec 19 2012 09:26:56

.@booksplease's ode to Delhi

Delhi

  1. booksplease
    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    A city is held together by culture, built on the hopes and dreams of its people, knotted with crushed expectations, slathered with desire.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:34:51
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    I lost my Delhi and then I found her again, in the benches of Amsterdam she sat silently crying for her voice.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:38:45
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    You can take a person out of his or her city but you can never take the city out of him or her.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:35:26
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    That Delhi I found in the swaying weeping willows on the canals, what happened to those gulmohar trees on the wide asphalt roads.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:39:42
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Those foggy wintery mornings, clothes strewn for some sun bathing, steaming cups of tulsi-adrak chai, they are stuck in my throat.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:41:21
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Delhi gives me tonsillitis every year, she clogs my sinuses, she makes me yearn for chola bhatura in Bengali market, you impertinent thing.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:42:51
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Those minarets, water on dry concrete, a green lawn, the bird bath, the dogs lying near my feet, you in a sweater, sunshine in Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:44:49
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    A play in habitat center, then we'll pick up some butter chicken at pandora road, stop for some paan too, Delhi you call out to me.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:46:37
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    What do I do with myself Delhi? Here men don't stare. And there is no dust below my finger nails. Take me away Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:47:28
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Hide me Delhi, I want to lie on your grassy roundabouts, chewing paan masala, smoking beedi, playing cards.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:49:10
  11. booksplease
    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    You have made me crazy Delhi, you tease me with your phulkas.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:53:02
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    On one of the radials of India Gate, you will find my secrets Delhi, let them remain unsaid, unheard, undone.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 01:56:54
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Do you miss me Delhi? Every time an auto hits a pothole do you hear my, "Ya Khuda" Delhi?
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:09:00
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    In the walls of Purana Qila I found Vicky loves Diya, another evening there I heard qawalls for the first time. You whirling twisted Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:13:26
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    The fog in Amsterdam tastes different Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:15:17
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Let me be the bobbing idol on your dashboard Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:24:49
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    In the middle of the night we sneaked out to have anda-bread at ITO under your watchful stars Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:27:50
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Shamelessly gate crashed a wedding in Alakananda, you wore a backless choli that night Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:28:50
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Hide and seek in those pillars around CP, how do I taste that shammi kebab from Wengers Delhi?
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:32:02
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Or should I forget how you danced at Ghungroos to DJ Sunny Singh and then nursed me like a hangover Delhi?
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:35:14
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    I stood between the North and South block and pretended you were my kept mistress Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:40:22
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    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    But you slipped through my fingers Delhi, playfully laughing, building flyovers, roaring the metro, toasting malls, with your Meru cabs.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:44:12
  23. booksplease
    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Owl pajamas bought in Lajpat Nagar for 45 rupees. You also offered me socks for 10 Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:49:23
  24. booksplease
    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Kissing couples at the backseat at the cinemas you made me one of them Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:51:58
  25. booksplease
    Diligent Candy@booksplease
    Butter should be sliced like cheese and put on top of the aloo paratha, said my Nanima in Delhi.
    Wed, Dec 19 2012 02:53:23

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