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Moving vehicle traffic
In their quest for maintaining a smooth flow of traffic in the Capital city, the Delhi Traffic police is ignoring a number of general traffic violations mentioned in the Motor Vehicle Act.
Out of a total number of 43 violations in the act, action is taken only on the most obvious ones like jumping of the red light, improper and obstructive parking or driving without a license, while the rest of the violations simply go unchecked.
“Our first priority is to see that there is smooth flow of traffic in the city and that there are no obstructions,” says Mr Qamar Ahmed, DCP Traffic who also justifies the allegation by saying that it is impossible to have a mobile patrol system to keep a
check on the way people drive.
As a result secure in the belief that they are not questionable to anyone, least of all the police, people are seen driving recklessly endangering not only their own lives but also of those who are driving alongside.
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The hall of substance
The word is in the air that the 134-year-old Town Hall, the Civic centre of Delhi, might lose its present character as it appears to have outlived its utility since it was built in 1863.
If we enter the building, we find that at places the plaster is giving way and the ceilings are damp with leaks. The M.C.D. offices in the entire building are messy, dusty and murky.
The furniture too is in a pitiable state. Chief Commissioner Hailey actually planned it for public utility with facilities like a library, museum, literary and commerce chambers and a few municipality offices. The library got shifted to Hardinge Library
and there are no signs of any museum that was supposed to retain the tricolour hoisted by Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on the occasion of the first Independence Day in 1947. Besides the flag, the mike on which Nehru delivered his first speech from Red Fort too was
supposed to have been kept in the same museum but that too seems to have been burgled owing to the negligence of the officers.
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A brave, bold film
Oct. 4, 1997 is in a way a judgement day for me since it is a day when Sangeet Yaachana, the opening film of my soliloquy films trilogy, is to be premiered in the Capital – at the Max Mueller Bhavan.
With bated breath debutante actress Alka Ameen and I await the audience judgement in all humility.
Like us producer Ashok Badhwar and Sarod Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan who has composed music for the film are also debutantes in the film world and we have a responsibility towards them for being with us in an avante-garde project.
Invitations are being sent and I confess there are butterflies in my stomach, a not so ordinary stomach for on it renowned painter Jatin Das was inspired to paint as he was on actress Munmun Sen’s breast.
One invitation over the long distance was personally conveyed by me to a very special childhood friend, Medha, who now resides in Bombay and is the mother of Aranyaman. Medha and I were in school together.
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Spelling a new dimension
With Delhi fast clinching the couture bastion from big brother Bombay, the couture kings are steadily expanding here. And the talk of all talks and the name of all names Ensemble has finally arrived here. Thanks to the team behind the store-Tarun & Sailaja
Tahiliani and Tarun’s sister Tina Tahiliani Parikh, who have brought to the Capital a store of super chic elegance, which is designed on extremely modern lines and managed very professionally. They have opened the store in Mehrauli and Santushti complex.
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Anything for a small bite
From tradition to modernity and from orthodoxy to scientific temper, change is an inevitable part of every order and DU is no exception to it. The eating culture followed religiously in college canteen too is beyond the realms of tradition.
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Strikes haunt Delhi University
Imbroglio continues: Delhi University Teachers Association (DUTA) has decided to stick to its guns and intensify their strike.Directed by High Court to resolve their strike amicably, some of the members of DUTA met VC on Tuesday but failed to resolve the
problem. Meanwhile barring a few university departments, colleges still wore a deserted look. The DUSU too has decided to take up the matter and serve an ultimatum to the authorities.
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