South delhi.
That thin and mythical piece of land where everyone lives and everyone else doesn’t.
GK doesn’t consider CR Park south delhi and has a gate to keep the parkians from coming in and stealing the flowers from their parks. True story narrated by friends.
Parkians don’t consider kalkaji south delhi because that side of road is just cheap and dirty.
Kailash colony in all this has gone ahead and renamed itself GK 4 or something like that.
So, SDA is not south delhi. Hauz Khas is. Friends in saket dont consider Malviya Nagar south delhi.
The vasant vihar, vasant kunj and Basant lok locations are a complex tapestry from which you have to pick out the DDA colonies and munirkas out. The 2 bedroom 2 crore apartments in these DDA colonies are not south delhi.
The address. Everyone is peeling the south delhi onion and believes they are the last later until they are peeled away. A lifetime is spent in inching closer and closer to the magical borderline that separates the south haves from south have nots.
However, one feature that defines south delhi is ventless bathrooms opening into the house. The arrogance of South Delhi comes from inhaling their own aromas.
As a friend once said I don’t like Mayfair Darjeeling because i can’t afford it. South delhites will say the same.
So be it. But the million plus emperors in south delhi who rule over their square footed kingdoms should not be listening to nobodies like me.