Several of the little eateries across the road from the main entrance of Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) railway station serve Chicken Deen Dayal Upadhyay of an acceptable standard. But there’s nothing that matches up to the gourmet Deen Dayal Upadhyay cuisine available in the ancient city across the river.
Some 30 years ago, the area around DDU railway station also had many ice-cream video-parlours of the sort that used to serve as entertainment centres for small-town India. Once, when the train I was waiting for, was running many hours late, I strolled across to one of those parlours ...
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