For The Love Of Games

The sealing drive ahead of the Commonwealth Games may end up successfully removing eyesores and thereby beautifying all the monument complexes and other places of tourist interest in the national capital region for the benefit of the multitudes of foreign tourists expected in about 4 months' time, but it is definitely robbing the local visitors of what are usually the only spots to have a breather and with it, a quick snack and something to drink. Sure, they shall be replaced by a swanky eatery that's more hygienic and, more importantly, authorized but any such place, needless to say, shall be hideously expensive and way out of reach of the lone local loiterers - case in point: the restaurant outside the Qutab Minar complex.

Here's a look at the place which let a parched me buy bottles of water and Nimbooz during a tiring, mid-summer evening trip to Purana Qila last year:

That was then. This is now. Came across the photograph which you'll see if you click on the link (and make sure you do, otherwise this post is wasted) in today's HT and was, well, unpleasantly surprised. Ah well, it's all for the love of (the CW) Games I suppose.