It's that time of the year again ...

... and R.K.Puram's Sector 8 market was too crowdy yesterday. I must correct myself here: "crowdy" might not be the most appropriate word; "congested" is perhaps more condesending and appropriate. Besides the irksome market-holders who have taken the liberty of extending the display of their products to a couple of kilometers in front of their shops, there is the problem of the presence of too many cars, autos and stray animals on the slime filled not-so-wide roads of the area. I would never have went to that market with a 20-feet long pole (with a wide rectangular board fixed at one end) if the right part of my brain wasn't throwing a hissy fit over how messy my hair are. Therefore I had to go to that market to get a "trim" job. Owing to that day being the eve of India's (one of the) most hyped festivals Karva-Chauth, the market teemed with hopeful females standing - or sitting, as might be the case - in lines to get the weird green stuff plastered in weird patterns on their hands. Diwali, India's most hyped and enjoyable festival, is around the corner ... the time of the year when we literally burn away thousands of bucks in a burst of carbon monoxide and try to push our luck on Delhi's atmosphere which is consequently pushed to its limit.

- AG.