Random Thoughts

Like most of us, everything I knew about this city was from Bollywood. I knew that it is very crowded and costly but seeing or experiencing that personally is an entirely different thing. So, here comes the perspective of a Delhite (Noida se hun, Delhi se nhi; pr Noida waale bahar apne aap ko delhi se batate hain) who visited this place for the first time. I boarded my flight on the 11 August 2019 from IGI Airport, Delhi. As my flight was about to land, I looked outside the window and what I saw was quite unique, entire mountain ranges of bright blue color just like an ocean but as my flight moved further down, I saw entire mountain peaks covered with small huts covered with blue plastic sheets. It was a huge slum and it was depressing to look at with skyscrapers on the other side of the city. I landed there and waited for half an hour to get my luggage, just for the fact Mumbai airport is far better than Delhi's.  I moved out of the airport, booked a prepaid taxi (Non-AC)...

These are the few topics when middle-class Indian families stop making sense. Not all of the middle-class people think and talk like this but the number of people who makes these kinds of arguments are substantial. Inter caste marriage I've talked to multiple people on this topic and I couldn't convince them about any aspect of it. I ask them, why do they think that same caste marriage existed in the first place? No one gave me a befitting reply to date. The reason it existed in the past was that earlier caste was defined on the basis of the type of work people did. It was necessary back then to know the custom of the family otherwise the women of the house wouldn't be able to handle things like dietary requirements of a smelter or a warrior. There were ton of things needed to be known according to the type of work people did. Back to the present day, everyone is doing similar jobs regardless of their caste. So, why are people still stuck on the same age-old custom t...