Perpetually Perplexed

Every day I see yet one more tree being felled. Roads are not improved. Is there no-one who will question them for this action. Or is it planned by some anti-Bangalore people who have planned to change Bangalore from Garden city to Bolu city.

I feel there are many types of laughters.  Type one is evil laughter , the kind you laugh when you have outsmarted someone. Or you have cheated someone. Type two is helpless laughter. This is laughing at oneself knowing your weakness and not able to do anything about it. ( Well I know this too well) Type three is derisive laughter when you laugh at someone or laugh at the expense someone else. Though this is not good, it is not as bad as type one. Type four is laughing at a pj. Normally by your boss. You wonder whether you should laugh. If he will feel bad if you do not. And will he know it is fake if you laugh too much.

I had this belief that people who are slightly corpulent are happy people. No, don't get me wrong. I am not saying that they are happy because of stoutness. I am saying generally happy people would be stout.    What could be the reason? In Hindi they have "खानेपीनेवाले घर के". Well these people are from affluent families who do spend on food. That is they don't have to worry about to how to get earn  today's bread.      And since they are from well to do families, they have not faced many problems in life. And they have still remained quite naive. So you do not see that wry smiles on their faces.    But are there exceptions to this observations. I need not look any further. I am fat and I am no way happy. Well not often. How do I explain this contradiction.     See we are talking about plumpy, chuuby kind of fat here not the one which accumulates in your forties.

ಪರಿಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿದ್ದೇನೆ. ಭ್ರಮೆ, ಸತ್ಯಗಳ ಸಂಸಾರ ಸನ್ಯಾಸಗಳ ಹುಚ್ಚು ಮುಪ್ಪುಗಳ ಅಣು ಮಾತ್ರ ಸರಿದರೂ ನೇರ ಪ್ರಪಾತ ಸೇರುವೆ

The more Bangaloreans are fighting for Kannada, more it is being threatened. By none other than our own kannadigas. Yesterday I read in an auto, I  think luggage auto "ಹೋಗೆ ರಹಿತ ವಾಹನ ಸುಖ ಜೀವನಕ್ಕೆ ಸಾಧನ " What can I say? hooge not hoge. What is wrong with you kannadigas? Why are you killing Kannada.   But looking at it in another angle, may be the saying is for ladies of our city. Hoge that is go. Go  without the vehicle to have a happy life. Absolutely true. What with these roads and rains competing with each other to make our ride nightmare.   Let us come back to Kannada. Today I read a auto quote again. which said "ಕನ್ನಡ ಗುಳಿ" What is the meaning of it? Are they referring to the dimple on pretty damsel who is kannadathi? Now, did you guess it? It is supposed to be ಗೂಳಿ !    Another amusing thought here. The auto drivers want to call themselves ಗೂಳಿ why not ದನ or even better ಎಮ್ಮೆ?

  Continued to read A fine balance by Rohinson Mistry. Narration of Emergency period is continuing. As is mentioned in the story, I vaguely remember the days when there was slum demolitions to beautify the cities.   One more thing I remember about the 20 point programme is that, there was this slogan. Bete ka char, ma ka bees , dono milke char so bees. I think later the 4 point program of Sanjay Gandhi was changed to 5 point program.     After the elections when Indira Gandhi lost the elections, in our town  which was bordering Maharashtra, the locals had organized the procession, wailing "amchi ayi geli (our mother is gone)"     One good thing which came out of Emergency period was the Janta party. It is a different matter that now it is split into infinite number of divisions. And there was a true leader Jayaprakash Narayan. I do not remember much about him except that he was supposed to be true Gandhian type of leader. Doesn't our count...

ನಮ್ಮ ಮೀರಿಸಬಲ್ಲಿರಾ ಎಂದು ಕೆಣಕುತ್ತಿರುವ ಮರಗಳಿಗಿಂತ ಆಳೆತ್ತರ  ಮೇಲೆ ನಿಂತು ನಾನೇನು ಕಮ್ಮಿ ಎನ್ನುವ ಫ್ಲೈ ಓವರ್ ನ ದುಸ್ತಿತಿ ನೋಡಿ ಕರೆಂಟ್ ಕಂಬದ ಮೇಲೆ ನಿಂತ ಗುಬ್ಬಿ ಕಿಚಿ ಕಿಚಿ ಎಂದು ನಕ್ಕಿತು