Batla House - 2

Food varieties range from Afghani to Mughlai to whatnot!
The price is lower here but that doesn't affect the quality. You get the best and fresh chicken and mutton meat here and those who eat big red meat are also welcomed here.

In evening, if you, by mistake drive into these streets, you're going to do blunder. In a five feet road, people walk. Pulling rickshaws are there. Autos are running, painting walkers with dust. Bike riding is awesome here. If you push into the crowd with your bike, you get the true and real lesson of driving here. Though you'll exercise your feet and fingers too much but you get something in return.

The place becomes most attracting during Look sabha and Rajya sabha election. Roofless jeeps, decorated with cloth posters of political parties stand on the divider of the road. Thanks to the MLA of this area who dared to get the divider to divide the road into two lanes. Party workers stand on the jeep. And they shout slogans throwing their hands in all directions. They put so much energy into it that their neck veins become visible. At a difference of 5 meters another jeep is standing with the posters and party workers of another political party. They are doing the same thing, throwing their arms and body to the other jeep.
It feels as if whole Indian political campaigns have gathered to this place only. We can see the party workers making election live here otherwise Indian election is becoming lifeless. When I see them I miss my childhood days.
They shout slogans with so much energy that force you to run away from the place if you're visiting it for the first time. It looks as if they would get down the jeeps and beat the opposition people any moment.

The voting date finally arrives. People gather to vote. And this the place which actually gives life to the election. Each single member of the area comes out to vote. Ladies, wearing burka show up.

Party workers are smart enough. They keep standing in a group of six or seven at each corner of the streets maintaining some distance of 3 meters. They stop each voter and convince him/her with some flying signals to vote for their party only. Cops keep standing outside the voting booths. Peaceful voting goes on.

The voting day makes Batla house a newly wedded bride.

I always wonder about them. Why don't they make their own Muslim party. Because all parties are fooling them and they have so much of energy to put into it then they shall look into making their own party.
Shouldn't they?

The government is trying to polish the area so road making work, JAL board work, drainage system making work, electricity works keep going on in this area.

All of the above work have a common this to start their work; digging the road.
They excavate the roads and put the mud on the roadside. The road is dug. Mud and malba are occupying the roadside area. From where you will come out into the market or goto office?

Where there is will, there is the way!

Like lines of small ants people walk down the heaps of mud and malba. Up and down. Left and right.
They become so comfortable that they don't fall in the ditch. If you are going there for the first time during excavation time then I'm sure you'll fall into the ditches.
People over here comfortable in every situation. They don't complaint. They adopt the things that are being given to them. Everybody lives happily here.

The worst thing about this place is that males stare at girl even when they are wearing burka. And if a girl come out in jeans then men rape her with their eyes. Most of them are educated but still they do it.

Will be back with more interesting stuffs about this place soon. Stay connected.