If cities were allowed to have their own tag lines,
· No power for a whole day? It happens … swalpa adjust madi.
· Pot-holed roads giving you the ride of a life-time? Your auto driver grins sheepishly at you and mutters … swalpa adjust madi.
· Road choc-a-bloc with the worst possible traffic snarl in the history of any “civilized nation”, while you frantically try to inch your way through … A fellow passenger comes out with the prescient adage … swalpa adjust madi.
· The state has been with a see-saw government (at times none) for god knows how many years now … your obsequious neta will fashion out the most unctuous grin, kowtow, and sigh indulgently … swalpa adjust madi.
Bangalore—cocooned comfortably in its air-conditioned surreal world, negotiating with simulated identities—seems so blasé about this whole please-bear-with-us attitude that at times you really long for a proactive civil society in this so-called “civilized” city, that wears it “developed / hi-tech” image on its sleeve all the time.
Is anyone listening?
6 comments:
For Delhi the line would be - koi baat nahi. The point in case the High capacity bus corridor which has been a total failure and now after spending 251 crores the state govt has politely admitted their fault and said -koi baat nahi, galti ho gayi. When the active civil society cried out loud last year they were coldly snubbed. The worst is apart from a certain section minting money out of the project don't know how it has helped the regular commuter.
yeah ... Delhi netas and their experimenting spree... but at least there is a voice of dissent in the capital ... Bangalore is so smug in its borrowed existence that at times it feels like a page straight out of Sukumar Ray's work. Ajob desh bote!!!
Dilli fire aaye :-)
Well I had picked upma few additional tag lines from my mallu friends...Jimbly...and Chooommmaa! Both similar in meaning....."Just like that!!"
But Swalma Adjust Madi is really just too good a tag line...Since i travelled by bus a lot when i was in bangalore i heard that always :-)
u bet illusions... that's in my wishlist
spot on meeaaooow... I'm also in love with this word chooomma... and the particular drawl that goes with it!!!
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