The Dogs At Neeti Bagh

We have 3 dogs at Neeti Bagh - Lady, Lucy and Lucky. They live on the street outside our house and are always there to greet us when we leave. They are the most affectionate dogs we've ever known. We noticed them all when we first arrived, sleeping under the parked cars around the neighborhood. We bought some dog biscuits thinking that they'd like them - they do sort of but really just take them from us to be polite.
Lady is the white one and does not like the biscuits but craves affection - she will let you rub her neck as long as you care to do it. It appears that Lady is the mother of the other two. Lucky is the brown one with white paws and a white blaze. He is rambunctious and very jealous - if we pet either of the other ones he growls and shoves our hand away and insists that he gets the attention. Lucy is very shy but dances with her paws in the air when she sees us coming -even when the Innova pulls up she knows I'm in the car and prances around with her front paws up. She will eat a dog biscuit but only because it appears to make me happy. She basically just wants to be petted. She spends most of the day curled up beside the tree right at the front of our drive way. The owner of the little shop by the gate seems to feed them every day - with day old milk and cold chappatis.
There are many dogs in the Neeti Bagh neighborhood - many pedigreed ones. The students reported a glossy poster being circulated this week with a glamor shot of a pug that has been lost. Several of the outside dogs began sporting fancy winter coats once it got cold in Novemeber. This shot is taken right at the top of the street where my office is in Nizamuddin East. This man has set up a duchan (small shop) selling candy and tobacco. His dog is always there with him in her handsome red winter coat.

The Delhi Metro

Update on the Metro - things are progressing really rapidly on all the sites that we see regularly. We read this week that the section that crosses the Jumuna over to Noida will open in the next few days. There is one section of the Ring Road that I cross everyday. It is a place where there is an underpass and an overpass and there is one pillar for the Metro constructed on the north side of the whole over-underpass junction. I said to Jack as we drove through on the underpass , "I wonder how they are going to manage to get the tracks across this section?" My answer came the next day in an artists rendering in the newspaper - it is going to be a very high-tech suspension bridge. What do you think of that?



My obsession with the Delhi Metro construction has to be memorialized so here is a blog on the topic. The map is what will be in place by October of 2010. It is going to make getting around Delhi an entirely new experience. And having the construction completed will make driving around Delhi better as well. Here is a picture I took last week on my drive home . The construction has moved very quickly on the route that I travel to and from the IES Center. I took a video as well. It will give you glimpses of the construction, traffic and sounds on my morning trip.