Now that I have your attention by 3 Idiot memory, I would like to speak about a major issue. As I believe women are not “”the only” bad drivers but their density on road is lesser than men, similarly, I hope male readers would be more for this post due to their density on and access to the internet.
After searching a lot I finalized an apartment out of my financial capacity just for one reason; the BALCONY! It overlooks the green patch and metro line and hence relatively elusive to human reach. So I can offer “jal to suryadevta or angan ki tulsi” (yes I am proud temple going Hindu) in a pajama much to the horror of my mom. But the point made that this small ingrowth of building has the exclusive right to my privacy. I plan to have my morning or afternoon tea (coz I am tea person slash addict) here while thinking of crazy romantic scenes of Bollywood where lady gaze in the distance while sipping tea lost in her thought….. It is then I see man or men scattered in this green patch picking themselves up with the classic cream-colored bisleri bottle which many of the Gangetic plain settlers might be familiar with. All I see men popping up with their antique plastic bottle. Sometimes I also see them look back at their precious leftover. What searching for wedding ring that you accidentally swallowed?
Luckily our country is empowered with swacchta abhiyan and sulabh toilets are developed almost in every municipality. But habitual dependancy makes them go to greenery. Now we haven’t left much greenery around and the kind of green we see is mostly weeds which are not liked by snakes and mongoose too, I guess these habitual green addicts are safe to avoid a “shitty death”!
But why I raised the point of gender in the beginning? I simply can’t understand why having the same excretory cycle I find men attending to nature call everywhere but women don’t. When we leave our houses in the morning we attend to our nature call. It’s another thing Delhi traffic is so bad that before we reach office we are already having difficulty to hold our urinary bladder. Still, women don’t stop and pee on roadside although holding a filled bladder is bad for both genders. I think all of us should behave like Cycrus Barucha who used to take a camera and question the peeing man in public what he is doing! Why are we not empowering social media instead of exploiting it? No manners or strict laws for men I tell you ! 😀
Some laugh some feel ashamed but the truth is greenery in cities is not for “nature” as much it is for “nature call”. Ask a woman who spends many happy nice days inside a jungle. I can still vouch that peeing in running stream is way different than the stagnant pool of water and amidst few rough tree lanes that people call “green patch”. Ahh, but grow up people. Let me put a banner on my balcony that yahan mutana mana hai…
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