Business As Usual

Despite the violence in Mumbai on the whole North Indian-Marathi row, Mumbai seems to have recovered in a day's time. The city is much like Foghorn Leghorn itself. When Foghorn is bombed by the chicken hawk, all he loses are some feathers. The very next minute he's found putting on the new feather jacket and carries on with it's business as usual.

After the violence in Mumbai, I hear that the city is back to its characteristic normalcy. The traffic jams are back, the dabba-wallahs are working relentlessly again, the malls are alive with the same old buzz and Mumbaikars are eagerly booking tickets for the upcoming release Jodha-Akbar! Thanks to the resilience that is otherwise a thing of the late-night cartoon show called Ed, Edd and Eddie. When a 22000 pounds boulder falls on their car, Ed just buries his head in the engine and beats the shit out the insides of the car with a hammer and bang, it's back in shape in a jiffy!

A man died caught in this violence in Nashik. Raj Thackrey is apologetic about it. Reportedly because, Shiv Sena has announced financial security for the deceased man's family. They are all very kind and charismatic leaders. Now, forgive me for the monotony in my tone but that sure looks like one of the usual battles between Sylvester and Tweety. Except that in this case, some random Winnie the Pooh dies in the scuffle! But otherwise, it's business as usual. The last rites of the dead man have been performed. The TV media gave it's report on the grief-stricken family. The press talked about it a li'l bit on the second page. They are now showing how Rakhi Sawant hit her boyfriend on camera this V-day. Happy hours are back I guess.

We all owe St. Valentine a prayer each. In this worldly madness, at least he gave mankind a reason to celebrate love, this one day of the 365 (approx.) in a year. Though, it may not be so pertinent to you that he didn't really mean to. (Apparently, there is no evidence that St. Valentine had anything to do with being "the patron of love"). Nonetheless, it happened. What's significantly spicy is that now we have a Valentine's Day. What makes it spicier is that we also have Shiv Sena and (the bonus with it,) the MNS. But certainly, the only thing that makes it spiciest is that our nation is gifted with Rakhi Sawant and her contemporary hard-hit beau, Abhishek!

For me, time is sitting alongside another Friday. Time to clock hours for the week, time to post another entry, as usual.

Anyway, the north Indians (whatever that means!) in Mumbai are back on the roads once again. And once again, its business as usual. May we remain like those cartoon characters forever!