DMRC’s yellow line has brought in a revolution of all sorts in Delhi. Never in my life had I seen Connaught Place so full of life on a Sunday evening and that too when most of the shops are closed. The metro rail has put life back in Delhi’s heart Connaught Place and Delhi University’s Mall Road. Normally Mall Road on a Sunday evening used to be too dull with few students of Mansarovar hostel of International Students Home frequenting roadside chai shops to drink tea in the evening. But now dramatic changes have happened due to Metro. The Delhi University metro station is so crowded as if a Diwali Mela is in progress.

Roadside hawkers are new addition to this place. The cycle rickshaws on Sundays in this area were too difficult to find but now they are aplenty here. Life I thing for North campus area has changed drastically.

I went with a childhood friend to Delhi University in Metro on Sunday. My friend is a software engineer and has used Metro rail in Beijing, Korea and New York. He was stunned to see Delhi’s metro. According to him the coaches are the best. “Korean coaches are nowhere in comparison to Delhi’s”, was his statement. He just recently shifted from Bangalore and now he feels that it is for good that he got transferred here. Earlier he used to whine that he couldn’t ride a bicycle in Delhi as he used to do it in Bangalore and has all praises for the city. However, now he has started loving Delhi as he feels that it is catching up with the other big cities of the world.

P.S.: I would advise the DMRC to open more counters for selling tickets, etc. in Connaught Place as it was so crowded that it took me 25 minutes to reach the platform after entering CP metro station.