| Friday, December 22, 2006 |
| Djinn in the GK I Market |
Today, I went to GK 1 market in Delhi and got promptly confused.
The reason was a school girl in her school uniform.
Now, for a school girl in her school uniform to confuse you, you have to fit certain criteria. They are 1) You should be born and brought up in a small village where you never get to see beautiful people or where no one really bothers about their looks beyond an oil bath or two a day 2) You have escaped from said village and moved to bigger and bigger and stranger and weirder cities progressively in your life in pursuit of riches and happiness and 3) the constant moving about and the shifting cultural landscapes around you make you uncomfortable in almost any given social environment.
And so the girl in the school uniform confused me. She confused me because it was 4:30 PM in December in Delhi and it was reasonably cold, and she was wearing a short skirt and a sweater. Now, in GK 1 market, everyone was nicely dressed up in woolens and shawls and pullovers and jackets - the kind of stuff which I had never seen till 10th standard, seen only in magazines and English movies till post graduation, and would kill you if you were in Mumbai for 12 years in its swealtering heat. They were wearing gloves, they had caps on, and looked like fat woolen pumkins.
So how could this girl, this big fat girl, wear a short skirt? The fat can probably handle a bit of the body's heating requirements, but it could be uncomfortable nevertheless. And anyway it was not like she refused the acknowledge the winter - she had a sweater on. So either she was cold upstairs and hot downstairs, biologically implausible, but not improbable. My research on Delhiites's physiology has not proceeded much - which is to say, not at all.
Considering the amount of cleavage on display in Delhi, compared to Mumbai, I am confused further. Why legs and not cleavage? Normally, Delhi women display cleavage, and legs, only rarely. So why legs in the winter and not cleavage? In the case of this girl, it could be that she was roaming around after school, and schools are okay with legs and not cleavage. Still, what could motivate someone to don apparel patently unsuited for the winter?
What could be going on here that I am missing? Is she a djinn? William Dalrymple says there are djinns in Delhi. This one looked hardly like a djinn, but it is not wise to assume such things about djinns. There is nothing to stop a djinn from turning up in GK 1 market as a school girl. That might explain the strange constume. Djinns dwell in strange realms, and it is possible they do not bother about the minutae of human winterwear.
Perhaps, she was just human and poor. The poor have great resistance to the cold, compared to us middle class weaklings. |
posted by a correspondent @ 6:49 AM   |
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| 3 Comments: |
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she is a young Delhite! Older ones in Delhi show cleavage!
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He he... welcome to Delhi and specially south delhi..further still public schools in South Delhi :) She was in her school dress which is perfectly normal. My school also had skirts for females irrespactive of the cold factor. And dude when ur in GK M-Block do not expect less and neither does any south delhite:)
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Delhi school girls from Modern school, springdales, dps etc. they wear really short skirts n while they r walking or playing skirts get lifted up further revealing even the thighs. this is the dress code that schools follow. girls also fold up their skirts to show off their beautiful legs, perhaps they enjoi having male attention. everyone can actually see guys staring so hard at their legs n thighs showing thro the skirts
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she is a young Delhite! Older ones in Delhi show cleavage!