Monday, November 24, 2008

Gender of the “Walls of India”

Pondering huh... what is this gibberish that I’m gonna give you after more than six months of wait. OK, I know nobody waited but then it kind of does add to a feel good factor to write that! Anyways, when I woke up after such a long sleep, I decided to come up with something weird and yeah stupid too, in order to come into my writing trance again.

This idea sprang up when I was finally leaving Roorkee. You see, Roorkee is a small town in terms of commuting and travelling facilities. But I don’t blame Roorkee for that, because UK as such is a small state. (Oh, please your highness the Queen of Britain. Forgive me but I wasn’t referring to the mighty state governed by you. UK is the postal code for Uttarakhand, a small crunch of land that has now been separated from Uttar Pradesh). Anyways, back to business, in order to get to Bangalore I was required to catch a flight from Delhi’s domestic airport and so I boarded a train from Roorkee to take me to the country capital.

Now coming over to what we started with. The best part in travelling within India is not just the countryside but also the walls of the towns and cities. These walls are painted, marked, and postered with various messages. Based on these messages, one can come up with an idea of which gender do these walls support. Support in the battle of sexes, support in the war of power, support in the struggle between Yin n Yang. Till the afore mentioned journey I had this idea that it was the feminine gender the walls felt for. Why? Well here it is why?
1. Sachcha desh banana hai... Bahu betiyon ko padhana hai.
2. Chahiye budhape ka sahara, to kyun sirf ladke ko pukara.
3. Mat karo atyachar, har ladki kare yahi pukar.
4. Karte hain aap apni betiyon se pyaar, Mat karein sweekar dahej ki maang.

These are some of the slogans, which spoke of the loyalty of the Indian walls.

But then... just two things changed my mind... I came to a conclusion that Indian walls are of a democratic mind. Without further ado, I present to you the best roadside one liners ever!!

1. Lovely Men’s Beauty Parlour (I’ve never seen a lovely man before).
2. Dahej kanoonon se agar biwi kare pareshaan, hamara is or zaroor kheechein dhyaan. Forum for Men.

I know it is an abrupt end, but you see the above statements left me speechless. I don’t have anything more to say. Have a good time!!

5 comments:

Shrey said...

Haha... brilliant!
I think I've seen the Lovely Men's Beauty Parlor ad too. Where did you see that?
Keep blogging!

Unknown said...

hey welcome back to blogging...
nd neways...these slogans r for beautiful reading only...nobody actually practices them... :P
(remember, there's still female foeticide and child marriages in our mahaan country...)

Proxy said...

@Shrey - I saw it on my way to Delhi... somewhere around Gaziabad... not sure though.

@Aman - Yeah... I know. That is why I said that is why I am talking about the walls and not the people.

Plain And Simple said...

good observation...and nice to have u back!

The Decayed Canine said...

Girlth are pethtth...
What can I say, MCP's should inerit the earth.