Yes, there have been teething troubles. It was tough living without broadband internet for a fortnight and Tata Sky's less than exemplary service did give me a headache or two.
But I can assure you all the horror stories of water scarcity and Dwarka residents bathing once a week are not true. Even if you need five buckets of water for a single bath (Water conservation, anyone?), you should be okay.
It's nice to live in an apartment complex with intercom facility, educated neighbours, a park, a fixed parking space and generator.
Yes, for those of you who have grown up in any of Delhi's apartment complexes, it's nothing new.
But I spent two decades in a place with not-so-nice neighbours (the kind that have fights and spew abuse past midnight), teeming with cows and buffaloes (usually harmless but my mom was once an unwilling combatant in a bovine tussle) and long, frequent power cuts.
It's nice to finally live in an area where Nirula's, Pizza Hut and Domino's deliver food. Not that we eat out often. But it's good to know a Hot Chocolate Fudge is merely a phone call away.
It's nice to finally have a bustling market nearby, with a choice of department stores where I can use Sodexho coupons.
It's nice to finally have a Delhi Metro station only a mile or two away.
I have found paradise in the concrete environs of Dwarka. And hope it stays that way.
Good Initiative.
ReplyDeleteWe, the residents of Dwarka Sub-City, New Delhi would like to invite you to join Dwarka Forum (A Welfare Association of Residents & RWA's / CGHS Representatives of Dwarka Sub-City). You may be aware about the activities of Dwarka Forum, which is engaged in efforts to solve the Civic Problems of the Dwarka Sub-city and work as a Networking Platform for Dwarka Residents. We need to do more to have an ideal sub-city and we look forward for your inputs/participation and cooperation.
The Forum was started in the year 2006 by a group of residents of Dwarka to share their views and spread information through Internet by creating an Internet group (http://groups.google.co.in/group/Dwarka-residents). The detailed discussion of the group can be seen on this group site.
For a better Dwarka Sub-City...DF keen to have members like you , with network of good people we may able to achieve some results. You may have membership of this forum by visiting the group and also just sending your email ID to the email Ids (anilnayal@gmail.com or dwarkaforum@gmail.com)
Thanks,
Anil Nayal
Dwarka Forum – Dwarka Ki Awaaz
anilnayal@gmail.com
Wait till your bag gets snatched and the rival Bisleri guy locks up your regular water guy and threatens to wring the poor fellow's neck.
ReplyDeleteSo it finally happened....
ReplyDeleteHow r u doing???
-Giridhar
Hi there Giridhar,
ReplyDeleteAs you might guess, it's going quite well. How about u?