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| Traffic Warden guiding the diversion |
You eat the breakfast and head out for your pending chores
of life. This time it’s the renewal of your driving license. As it happens, the
place of your task happens to be next to the city courts. On the roundabout
close to the destination, suddenly, there is a mass gathering and within
seconds, the round junction is blocked.
In the confusion and bewilderment, you notice a prominent
face, focus of the crowd, nucleus of the junction, wondering who it would be.
You come home, involuntarily, unsuccessful to complete the
task of the day. While, you mull over the day’s proceedings, you turn of the
television. What you see is a familiar face, the queen bee, the Mr. Well-to-do.
You just saw your life come into conjunction of the news and newsmakers.
You head back again, with hopes of getting your work done.
Now, there is a traffic barrier and next to it is a traffic warden pulling the
diversion of traffic to an exit route. The darna(sit-in) is still on. Sadly, it
was not in your favour.
You reach the office along the required documents and
officer on duty is like… maaf karna sahib aap ko bohat dair hogaye hai(pardon
Sir! You are very late now)
It is evening, the time to spare is shared on social
networking. You are racing through a foodies
page for something interesting. But after a few clicks you realize that
the page is a rant fest of 'all is bad'. The page admin, is food outlet owner. When you think of it, foodies' pages are great tool to render an opinion and probably has
been able to manipulate views and viewership. Own the mud pools if you think
people are going to use them against you. You could sell the mud to others for
throwing it on your rivals, at best.
Yet, you pick the one place, for a friend, which gets the
most hype. Its catch-22. You can’t live with it, you can’t live without it.
Do in Rome, like the Romans do. You come back home. You
write a ‘positive’ review, you offer felicitations to the owners for making a
good job out of the food outlet. No one cares. Complains still prevail.
Its midnight, you walk alone on this lonely road of the city
of saints and wonder about all the diversions, physical and metaphysical, that
you have seen and experience. You sulk over there repercussions. Unable to
foresee any solution, you dive into you bed of acceptance, and sleep to your
helplessness.
You dream about a saner tomorrow.
....When the saints are here and it snows in city of saints.
P.s. akhiry line writer ki aik na puri honay wali khuwahisho
mein say aik thi.. iss ko serious mat laye… waisay agar kuch aisa hota hai..
tou yeh qiamat ki nishani ssamjhi jaye gi!!!
