The Senco gold billboard advertises their much celebrated hospitality through the tagline-step in.get lost.The large paper diamond winks mischievously down on me.It seems to have got the joke that eluded the rest of them at senco.I think Ille go buy it.Humour is a commendable quality even in a diamond.
Further up the street there is high end flower boutique.It calls itself cauliflower.Very misleading for that particular flower is not sold in the shop.I didn't ask though, fearing they too might ask me to get lost.In its rush to become developed the city is losing all its courtesy.And pushing and shoving and snatching.Ranks and college seats and land.
But all are not so bad.Some are much more laid back.They come home from work early in the evening and go out for family dinners to 'Big Burp!'.As their lifestyle does not allow them to dine at its younger brother in forum.
How can I help but love my city.?Its like a blundering child muddling his way through life.Sometimes outrageous,sometimes ridiculous,mostly quaint.
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in this rush to think out of the box ,I forgot to see whats inside.
2 comments:
i like this. the part about the gold shop ad especially, which i have seen. somehow, i seem to hv missed the cauliflower spectacle.
i like the way u wrote this. something of urself, and the humour u sometimes display while being sarcastic onstage. it's good stuff.
i like too. specially the paper diamond. it's like you grasped that quaint crude sense of belonging that is calcutta...it's so morphed now beyond recognition that not many people can put their finger on it.
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