Years ago my sister lived in Delhi and laughed at the names of places. There were, she said, areas called "East of Kailash", "Greater Kailash I", Greater Kailash II". But where was Kailash?
Well, I now live in Bangalore and understand...
We have two Ring Roads. One is called the Inner or Intermediate Ring Road. The other, in order to completely avoid confusion is called Outer Ring Road! So where, exactly is RING Road?
I am certain, even if a circular road gets built between the two Ring Roads, it will be called something like Middle Ring Road or Second Ring Road (correct whichever way you start counting ;-)). Ring Road cannot be ;-).
Neither can Kailash ;-)
Another wonder of Delhi... we have an 'Outer Ring Road', but it isn't really a circular road. It is a disjointed collection of roads names after Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ho Chin Minh, Dr. Hegdewar and god knows how many other people from the past!
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