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This story is from January 21, 2006
Expect the unexpected
There can't be a more candid photograph of life on the busy streets of Kolkata.
You desperately try to do the balancing act between your patience and pent up anger as life passes by nonchalant to your feelings. You are left hanging on tenterhook, dangling on the divider between sanity and insanity.
But that's what life in Kolkata is all about. Come winter the suspense grows manifold. Yes, suspense! Because once you step outdoors you do not know what to expect. Usually the day begins with a fight with the cab driver over his tampered meter but in all probabilities you have to leave the cab and walk.
There are hordes of people walking on foot to their picnic spots. The spot can be the Maidan, the Shahid Minar or the Dalhousie crossing but then it's more fun if you walk - in two files -with placards, holding up traffic, chanting slogans (not knowing why, of course) and hoping for a good meal at the end of it all.
Your boss, is of course, is breathing down your neck for being an hour-and-a-half late. But that's music to the ears compared to the situations you have walked through.
Like when you were scared you would never reach the examination hall on time, when you walked on Howrah bridge fearing you would miss the train, you walked holding on tightly to your grandmom when she suffered a heart attack and you feared you will never reach the hospital on time.
But you have reached a point today. You have a fat pay packet, enough purchasing power to frequent the snazzy malls, take your family out to the multiplexes, buy a car on easy EMIs, zip down along unbroken flyovers. Still there is no guarantee about one thing - you might have to 'take a walk' to reach your destination.
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