Thursday, 8 April 2010

A Word for Delhi

Okay, so I'm rather enjoying my current read- 'Eat Pray Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert. An interesting idea she exprsses in the book is that every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most people who live there.

"If you could read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought. Whatever that majority thought might be- that is the word for the city."

A little far fetched, perhaps, but interesting nonetheless.

So if, according to the book, the word 'achieve' best describes New York, 'sex' best describes Rome (minus the Vatican, mind you; the word for that is 'power), and 'succeed' best captures the spirit of LA, what's the word, I wonder, for Delhi?