Friday, 10 January 2014

The Unaesthetic

At this place where six roads meet, there, in a triangular island with a dysfunctional fountain, Maharana Pratap Singh can be seen at an awkward angle, holding a spear or a staff almost vertical, looking neither towards Haridwar nor towards Delhi, seeing neither the Shatabdi Gate nor the Ganges Canal, pretending as if he is planning to charge towards crowd in the Civil Lines; but he is fooling you, I know, because he is only looking towards the royal palace and I have seen him drooling when the dinner is served there!

His Chetak is puny,it is unlikely that you may connect it to the steed you may have heard of, his legs are stodgy and hardly evoke the image of the valiant ruler of Mewar, rider of the blue horse.Curiously the closed concrete space where he rides his horse is named as a park, Maharana Pratap Singh Park.