First day in delhi

Walking around in Connaught place, the center of New Delhi, I wanted coffee. For some reason, Starbucks hasn't arrived in India yet. Instead , the market has been cornered by Café Coffee Day, Barista, and Mocha. Since this was my first full day in India, I didn't know the coffee market yet. I noticed a couple of "up-scale-looking" (translation: closed glass doors with a security guard outside) coffeehouses which provided for a nice time to sit down and read the travel guide while not being asked if I wanted to get my ear cleaned. Yes, my ear. Apparently, it's a road-side or park-bench service one can get. To his credit, the guy did say that he had washed his hands as well his instruments. And no charge if he inspects and my ears are already clean - a jiffy-lobe free 16 point inspection! Coming back to the coffeehouse (Barista), there was of course an armed guard outside which mostly means that rich people can sit inside without being bothered by the world outside. The clientele seemed upscale, even some foreigners (like me :-) Interesting observation: The waiters took the orders in English, even if you tried speaking to them in hindi, they would reply in English, however broken and incomprehensible it may have been. The customers mostly talked to each other in hindi except when they were placing orders in which case english was again the preferred language. The order would be taken in english, passed on to the other staff in hindi. The process went as follows. The employees and customers talked to each other in english but in hindi within themselves. They all knew hindi and talked amongst themselves in hindi but when it time to address the other "class", english was the language of choice.