Delhi with a capital D
My roommate managed to immortalize my long forgotten dream about Delhi's roads by posting a blurred picture of me in an auto rickshaw on her Pinterest feed.
When I was a kid, auto rides in Delhi used to make me happy, and there was a soft whisper inside of me that said, "I want to study in this city."
(Keyword here is study)
And mind you, I held that whisper more important than the promise I made to my father.
Today, I don't really understand Delhi. At times it is chaotic, at times it embraces me. It is a complicated place.
(The more I try to understand this city, the more I empathise with humankind.)
When I study English under the lenses of grammar, I learn that a proper noun should start with a capital letter. Hence Delhi.
When I study English under the lenses of literature, I learn that when random words are written with a capital letter, the poet/writer wants to personify them. Hence Delhi.
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