Yes no matter what Life goes on..
I'm sounding philosophical....
But what to do.. an incident today made me think like this..
We keep talking about our job and better pay packages. But, people have more in life to look at and bear.
The dhaba wala near my office in Okhla is a person who believes in simple living and high thinking, ie when it comes to his business. He serves only thali and rice plate.
Today, like any other day, I along with my colleagues walked out of office to have Lunch at the Dhaba. From a distance we could see unusually heavy crowd. We learned that the MCD team has come over to clean the encroached areas.
We still walked up to the Dhaba wala and was told very calmly by him "Bus 15 min". On probing further we were told that they were intimated yesterday itself to expect a raid today. So, they had already packed most of their stuff in advance and that the MCD vehicle would go in 15 min max and they would serve food then. He also told very matter of factly that they send the monthly 'Kharcha Pani' to the concerned official and there was nothing to worry about.
The whole attitude and his reactions were making it clear that he is used to such things and they are part of the business.
His reactions could be equated to our month end stress of closing!
As promised after about 20 mins all did become 'NORMAL' again and people were having there lunch as if nothing had happened...
3 comments:
We can only see the relax face he shows to everyone. The pain behind those eyes just gets lost somewhere. How would he must feel to give kharcha pani from his hear-earned money to the corrupt officials.
a small peek into the world ,
we are unacquainted with..
a peek in the world of the marginalised, and their means of survival.
Corruption, agony---thy name is India..
very crisply documented..
especially for the "readers on The Move".
Yes. Life goes on, no matter what. Likes of poor dhabha wala and many street vendors are suffering in Delhi because of upcoming commonwealth games. Dont understand why our politicians are trying to change the image of the city for the sake of a show.
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