Remember that curioisty, as your train penetrated into a city, passing thru its railway phataks where bikers waited patiently for your train to pass, your face pressed against the window, trying to read shop-boards, sex clinic ads to figure out which city it was.
Like a competition with yourself. Picking clues, racing against time, before the train drew nearer to the platform and revealed its name to you. The name on a stone plaque, black on Yellow. It might decieve you like Naini before Allahabad. Whatay beautiful game! :)
And during Evening time, as the train eased into the city, a field appears where kids are playing Cricket, the bowler takes his run-up, you press you face against the window rails to see what happened, but the train moves on before you could see how did the batsman fare. 🙄
And if at a curve, you managed to see the coaches of your own train, it was like a surreal out of body experience. Wow, I am traveling in this giant red caterpillar of metal. A feeling of self awareness.
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Isolating coz I am Covid negative. Coz everyone else in my house is/was positive. 4 members including Baby Z. Thankfully everybody recovered. Elders take Insulin twice a day, yet escaped with minor symptoms. Coz Vaccine. Don't miss yours :)
The toughest call was on Day 7. My vaccination slot. Most people told me to give it up, as I had a high risk of infection. So I got a rapid test done on 6th evening. Negative. Drove to the Hospital next morning. Got myself vaccinated + 4 days of no outside contact. Phew
Baby Z was the 1st one to get it. (Mostly from the domestic help) She beat it within a day. Had fever & rashes. And gave it to her mom/grandmom. Missus (non-vaccinated) had it the toughest, high CRP & some shortness of breath for a day. Grandmom (vaccinated) had just some cough
Brother tells me the migrant workers in his manufacturing unit, were so scared of an imminent shutdown of the company (coz of a few days of inactivity) they got money, bought bicycles and left for their home. Were quarantined in their home state, now they want to come back.
Supervisors assured them the co. is not going to shut down, but the rumors were so thick, that they left. 4 brothers together earned uowards of 55K. All of them are home now, with money depleting. Daily quarrels at home. Wanna come back. State govt is instructing to hire locals.
Brother says, there is intense fear mongering at their levels. So many rumors. Modi is going to shut all industries, will shut down roads and you will have to starve. So leave before it's too late. 🤦
The daily wage workers, hundreds of kms away from home, here coz of chain migration, coz the institutions are so corrupt in his home state, that there're no jobs & only crippling debt. They don't even know, if a govt can even help.
"Really?"
They walk home
They have always known govt as an entity who can at best save them from getting massacred from an opposing caste. And they are grateful, and pay back with their vote every 5 yrs.
"A govt can give economic assistance?" They ask. Coz to even get your pension, you pay a bribe.
They don't know. They have no entitlement. So when they are left with no job. No money. They don't protest in-front of the parliament, or block roads.
Art: For a foreigner who has little context or bias, this wud appear thoroughly confusing. Everything happens for no rhyme or reason. Shoddily assembled scrapbook of news clippings. Painfully Painfully long
2.5 hrs into the movie the guy next to me looks around a packed hall and says "Bahut logo ko bevkoof bana Diya"
A kid was watching doraemon with the volume up on his father's phone, without people minding it. Someone said, at least one person is watching something interesting 😂
So basically, no matter which side you are inclined to, this movie especially the 2nd half is torturous.
Politics: This is where it gets murky. They show everything is hunky dory, Hindu Muslim brotherhood, song n dance, suddenly the Indian army kills one person for no reason.