The concept of doing things anti-cyclicly

Some of you probably have heard about my hypothesis of anti-cyclical movement. As the name implies, the idea is to do things differently or at a different moment as the great mass in order to avoid long cues, traffic jams and frustration. Having said this I must tell you that it is a very bad idea wanting to buy a train-ticket and doing some sight seeing on a saturday in Delhi. I have never seen and sensed such a high density of people around me -- Delhi has 12,5 million inhabitants and a population-density of 11000 persons per square kilometre, that is almost 4 times more as in Vienna. The 4 km Auto-Ricksha ride (I have been told that the real Rickshas are the bicycles with 3 wheels and no engine) toke me more than an hour and I ended up walking the last 2 km between goats, cows and masses of people …of course all this with the characteristic smell I described earlier and a constant concert of cars hooting and bicycles ringing their bells. There comes the point where one has to choose between running amok or accepting the circumstances as they are and appreciating more they way things work in Europe.
After 2 hours of cue for my second train-ticket -- only 3 counters out of nine were actually open, as most of the officials were busy drinking chai and smoking peddles -- I fought my way through to the biggest mosque of India, the "Jama Masjid". Inside the huge square of this remarkable building I toke a little rest before I decided to head back to my friend´s house in order to be on time to take the night-train to the north. Generously I had calculated 5 hours for this 2 trips of less than 10 km each and I almost lost the train due to the total traffic-collapse in the city. Finally I reached the Old-Delhi train-station and sat down on the seat assigned to me to take a deep breath, relieved that I was about to leave this hopelessly overcrowded city.
Little by lithely everything calmed down while the Masuri-Express was leaving behind Delhi. Sharing the 6 bed-cabin with a young swiss guy, a tibetan philologist and 3 rather uneducated Indians I ended up in a very interesting late-night-talk with the two internationals while the 3 locals created the atmosphere with a symphony of eruptions, farts and snoring… ;)