At funeral of Kolkata’s yellow Ambassador cabs
Friends, bhodrolog, commuters, lend me your fears;
I come to bury our Peeli cabs, to not reward them.
The evil that taxis do lives after them;
The good is oft interred within the potholes;
So let it’s with Peelies. The noble shorkar
Hath advised you outdated Ambassadors are obnoxious:
If it have been so, it was a grievous phault,
And grievously hath these spluttering warriors reply’d it.
Here, below depart of Transport Babu and blaady enbhironmentaalists,
Come I to talk in Peeli Ambassador’s funeral.
It was my buddy, trustworthy and usephul phor me:…
It hath introduced many office-goers dwelling
Whose licences did the state’s coffers fill:
Did this in Ambassador appear obnoxious?
It alone hath scoffed at killer potholes,
And laughed via Kolkata’s flooded streets;
Obnoxious must be fabricated from lesser stuff…:
Yet Transport-Babu says Ambassador cabs are obnoxious;
And Transport is an official division…
I communicate to not disprove what the Borro-Babu spoke,
But right here I’m to talk what I do know.
You all did like it as soon as, not with out trigger:
What trigger withholds you then to mourn for it?
O nostalgia! thou artwork fled to pollu-shaan clergymen,
And males have misplaced their emo-shaans. Bear with me;
My coronary heart is within the rusty dickie there with Peeli,
And I have to pause until it comes again to me…
If you may have sneers, put together to shed them now.
You all do know this metropolis mantle: I bear in mind
Our Cal cab was the primary to place it on,
‘Twas on a summer’s night, in 1908…
Then in 1962 this iconic Ambassador taxi rolled out
And was topped ‘Keeng of the Road’
Look, on this place ran Maruti’s dagger via:
See what a hire the brand new ‘No Refusal’ taxi made:
Through this once-beloved Transport Babu stabb’d;
And as he pluck’d his wretched licence away,
Mark how the fumes of Peeli observe’d it,
As dashing out of choked exhaust to be resolved
If PUC was lastly obligatory or no.
Nostalgia as you realize, was Ambassador’s angel:
Judge, O you gods, how lengthy nostalgia had beloved him!
This was probably the most unkindest reduce of all;
For when the noble Peeli heard this diktat,
Ingratitude, extra robust than traitors’ arms,
Quite vanquish’d it : then burst its dilapidated radiator:
And, leaking on the base of Netaji’s statues,
…out of date Ambassador fell.
O, what a banishment was there, my Kolkata-men!
Yes tram and rickshaw and ghoda-gadi, all icons have bhaneeshed
Whilst mini-bus, Merc and Metro flourish over us. Ki nonsense!!
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Alec Smart stated: “We’ve had HMPV for years: Hi Maintenance People Virus.”
Disclaimer
This article is meant to deliver a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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