“Bhaiya Satyaniketan chaloge?” Autowalla, “Haan bhaiya, 50 rupaiya, baitho.” “ Nhi bhaiya, 40 pe done” Autowalla, “Chalo bhaiya 45 de dena baitho” “Rehne do bhaiya, 50 pe hi chalet hai” . The drama is always associated with that 5 rupees which we generally don’t tend to have. With every year passing by, where our Finance minister claims to have an increased economy, at least physical burden of caring coins have reduced as we mostly deal with notes of minimum demotion 10 rupees.  Now, here comes the curse of that 5 rupees. You get into an AC Bus from Satyaniketan to AIIMS. Hand over 20 rupees to the ticket collector, and his instant reply, “5 rupey khulle dedo, khulle nhi hai” . That funniest thing that can happen is that you get down of the bus because you don’t have a change of 5 rupees, and the very next passenger takes a ticket of 20 bucks and hands over a note of Rs. 1000 and gets whole of the remaining change back.   This, my friend, is the power of a 5 ru...

The recent incidents in the Capital have surely put a big question mark on the efficiency of the Delhi Police. Every other day we find articles criticizing the department. We find activists demanding the resignation of the top Delhi Police officials and hear speeches about how the police have failed in its duty. We stand nowhere to argue that Delhi is a very vast city.  And protection of each and every civilian is no doubt the responsibility of the Delhi Police. But we must understand that even we are responsible for our own safety. Well, my point here is not to discuss who is correct and who is wrong; who has failed or what could have been done. Actually here I am sharing three instances of mine which I have experienced in relation to the Delhi Police. At this point of time, I believe seldom we find articles praising the police. But I believe, Delhi police is indeed commendable. At least from what I have experienced, I pretty much have a faith in the department now matt...