When I first came to college and started to make friends and then started to go to shops in market instead of the boring medical canteen, I came to know about cold coffee. I didn't know about it. It was completely new to me. Now, its something that has become most likely thing I will drink if I have to drink anything from the market.
Then one day friends decided just to eat ice cream for lunch. I was reluctant as I can't survive just on ice cream but they said its falooda and it will be heavy. I didn't know what was falooda. I don't remember what it was like as it was my first and last try at it. Clearly I was left hungry and it was so out of my taste that I didn't have the courage to completely eat it.
Then came the child beggars, from nowhere the number quadrupled and the whole market was full of them. Every 2nd step stood a beggar begging for money. I didn't know begging is kind of a huge racket. My friends told me that they earn well and since then I never entertained them.
Burger Mail, a Burger shop on wheels. I didn't know it makes good burgers. I had this feeling that since its on wheels, it will be bad but I was wrong. It charges a lot but the taste is too good. The recent cost of a cheese veg burger is double of McD's happy menu. The stuff is worth it.
Grilled Sandwich, I knew what that is but recently I found something that I didn't know. There is a shop that makes excellent sandwich. I ate their sandwich, 4 times in 4 days and 1 day I even bunked lecture for it. I have been to that shop several times for cold coffee or iced tea but never knew they make such good sandwich.
The last day I was at the shop that makes one of the best grilled sandwiches, a beggar boy came in with a 10 rupee note and asked for a glass of cold coffee. The owner of the shop scolded him for coming in and made him go away. While waiting for my grilled sandwich I watched the guy go straight into the dustbin. He took off the cover, literally put his head and hand inside, took out a glass that had a bit of cold coffee in it and he drank it. Then he went inside again, took out a pice of left over food and gave it to his elder sister. The elder sister ate it instantly. Then he came back to the dustbin again, this time finding nothing, went back, probably to some other dustbin of another shop or return to the same one some time later.
I was aware of such things but it was the first time I witnessed something like this. I looked around and I noticed nobody looked at what the guy was doing. Everyone was happy with their food. Soon I got my sandwich, ate it and went back to college for I didn't know what else to do.
13 comments:
There is a hidden social satire in your blog which I am trying to understand :D There are a lot many things we know , but we tend to ignore!
Nice blog, and I love falooda kulfi :P
Teenagers and fast food! :P
Only fast food chain I love is Subway. Chicken teriyaki, roasted chicken, Tuna, Italian bmt and for veggies - veggie delite... yummm :P Sauces taste authentic.
For full lunch, prefer Udipi food outlets, seafood places, Malvani, Chinki, Italian restaurants, food @ bars .. over McDs, KFCs etc. I have started to hate pizza.. guess it happens with age :P
For Ice creams, Any icecream from Baskin robbins.
For beggers - They deserve to die. Begger mafias as well as those kids. I've seen how these rackets work.
What a silly spelling mistake! My English teacher would have stopped my shooting practice, called my mom and what not!
This is a nice... yeah there are thinks we know yet we ignore them..
nice for you to confess.
Now try one more thing, Cad-B...heavier than Faloda...:D
PrashH- I am talking about things in my campus area, the only noticeable outlet here is CCD.
Ritika- Well, whatever hidden is inside the post, I don't know. May the readers find something :P
I have left it to the readers to decide that they make out of this, like prashH said beggars should die and SiD said how we ignore things and someone talked about spelling mistakes.
Oh..propitiously my campus wasn't like most engineering n medical college campuses.
Rits is right.. there is hint of satire in the post. If it was deliberate, its very raw attempt.
I remember when I was in Kalyan(town outside bbay), a friend showed me kids between age 8-15 in one compartment of train coming to bbay. He said now you will see the same kids @ diff traffic signals, footpaths in ur city. There were girls too (teenage girls) wonder what they will do? Shocking thing is everyone knows abt it.
There r different varieties of them. Like this english speaking one i saw @ railway st. 1st i thought wow cool way to beg! must have recites those lines. but then he started to talk in fluent english. When I asked where is he frm.. he left without answering.
My 'beggars should die' comment was little harsh. I meant they should just vanish :P
Well, when I thought of writing this blog, I did think of trying to somehow hit the readers but when I started writing, I thought not to.
I was thinking of writing a blog totally on that incident and then thought of trying something different and ended up with this.
I don't know what impact it has on readers(if any). I also don't expect any kind of standard reactions.
Why I wrote it this way in this style? Well, I liked the idea of writing it this way and I liked it while I was writing it :D
The beggar racket topic was shown in the movie Traffic Signal. I saw it after my friends told about the huge racket. One of the reasons I don't give a beggar any thing is due to this. Also, many of them are illegal immigrants.
Child begging is totally out of question. If childhood is spent begging, there is no way s/he is going to be something else in future.
However, all these ethics go for a toss when you see something like that. For that moment you don't know what to do. Once you're out of there, you're again fine :P
And this is how India is booming, with hunger! Mumbai is full of them, now Pune also is catching up.
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i thot it would be a fun blog but well...
u sent out a clear message or rather a clear question....
most of us will only say we don't know what to do....
i guess thats what even i should say....
however i think i mite have also given my sandwich to the beggars... or atleast half of it if i were hungry... not sure... but i guess i would have done it... i did in past, not to people but animals(dogs)... maybe i would have done for people too, not sure. [:|]
Talking about the issue of begging.. its a pretty big market.. now its difficult to judge the real beggers from the make belief beggars..
I see some of them so happy that i wonder if they really miserable..
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