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Bachi Karkaria
Bachi Karkaria’s Erratica and its cheeky sign-off character, Alec Good, have had a rising league of followers since 1994 when the column started within the Metropolis on Saturday. LESS
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The PM’s glossy and noticed 72nd ‘budday’ current was a showstopper worthy of India’s personal seventy fifth. So, moderately than the same old caterwauling allow us to want Oban, Tbilisi, Siyaya, Sasha & Co a fast restoration from their designer-jet lag. Asha, who arrived anonymous, was christened by Modiji himself. Hopefully the remainder shall be spared lowlier Kuno handlers calling them by the extra manageable and asli Indian Rani, Raja and so forth. God and Dr Laurie Marker forbid, it gained’t come all the way down to Babloo, Dabloo, Taploo, or, most insulting of all, Tiger.
The nifty giftee has stated that these magnificent beasts are ‘our honoured visitors’ and we should ‘give them time to quiet down.’ Means, plied with the buffalo-leg-meat model of garma-garam chai. Extra to the purpose, they need to actually heed each host’s cliché of ‘Deal with this as your personal house solely,’ and never try return flights to Windhoek on the first lapse of hospitality. That electrified fence should hold in as a lot as hold out.
The cheetahs will lord over an expanse initially marked for the king of the jungle, that too from the PM’s personal Gir, and image of his prized Make in India. Ah nicely, perhaps aatmanirbhar doesn’t apply to animal-centric vainness tasks. So, as a substitute, what I’ve been considering of is the same city state of affairs. Isn’t all this very like the gentrification of depressed areas equivalent to my former mill-area neighbourhood?
The Namibian newbies’ super-deluxe, ‘gated’ housing has pushed out the much less privileged old-timers aka leopards. The one unique inhabitants welcome are those that can ‘service’ the luxury newcomers, prey-deer being the equal of our bartan-jhadoo-pochha brigade. ‘Encroachment’ is Contentious Problem No 1 in each eventualities. So, I couldn’t assist cheering for Kuno’s native leopards. For weeks, they defied all efforts to squeeze them out and ‘sanitise’ their age-old house for these private-jet setters with fancier spots and souped-up engines. Human-human battle, animal-animal battle – similar to similar. Disgrace to disgrace.
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Alec Good stated: “With planning aborted, Bengaluru had its personal Row vs Wade.”
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