Bachi Karkaria
Bachi Karkaria’s Erratica and its cheeky sign-off character, Alec Smart, have had a rising league of followers since 1994 when the column started within the Metropolis on Saturday. LESS
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Dustin’ Coffman is the star of
Mumbai’s newest lungbuster
If Air Quality Index is city India’s haunting tune, then ‘AQI-on mila ke/lungs choke kar ke/chaley nahi jaana’ is the remix model of the 1944 traditional crooned by smokey-voiced Zorabai. Dilli continues to be tops, however Mumbai follows soot. Its AQI has reached such disastrous ranges that drastic curbs have been imposed on runaway actual property development. Poetic justice: BMC has needed to cull its largest money cow. Developers had been allowed to stampede by way of the town to make up for the Covid hunch, and sarkari companies had milked them for this through fee and many others. In reality, the builder-politician nexus had lengthy changed the underworld in ruining the town. Now it’s payback time. The excellent news is that robust selections have been taken. The dangerous information is that cities, like hell, are paved with good intentions.
Fat-cat builders occupy the penthouse of rule-breaking; they’re unlikely to be deterred by the riot act warning them to conform or face a complete Stop Work. Some 1,500 scrawnier bakeries are Culprit No. 2, every utilizing 500 kg of polluting firewood a day to produce the poor man’s pav. In the identical class are 88 Hindu crematoria, the lifeless ghoulishly killing the dwelling. The listing is longer, however BMC isn’t any Shri Herculeskar who can cleanse the Augean stables aka poisonous AQI.
Ani the larger polluter is the policer solely. More particulate matter (PM) is spewed by the sarkari infrastructure being frenetically constructed as if there’s no tomorrow. Ironically these connectors will encourage an even bigger ‘bumper’-crop of automobiles additional toxifying our tomorrow.
So, whereas Longfellow’s ‘Dust thou art to dust returneth was not spoken of the soul’, it has actually returned to smother each floor of my house. Dealing with it was all the time fraught since jhadoo-pochha-bartan (sweeping-swabbing-utensils) is the restrict of the remit of my part-time assist; our previous Cal house-boy’s jhhad-pochh (mud’n’wipe) is past the ‘My way or the bye-bye-way’ Mumbai bai.
(Un)clearly, a ‘bad heir day’ is a pan-urban drawback, not simply that of a sure social gathering. Actually, all the opposition reels underneath the overwhelming ‘PM’ ranges in political atmospherics.
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Alec Smart stated: “Alleged Snooping: An Apple is again used to subvert the phone-privacy Eden.”
Disclaimer
This article is meant to carry a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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