Shor in the City...

When one lives in a dingy lane at a nerve wracking city for nearly 6 years continuously, it's normal that there is very little surprising element left in life. However a person like me who is least scrupulous in eavesdropping juicy conversations at a public place or due to my lack of concentration power on a single object for more than 5 minutes (and so i move my head and two precious eyes in this side and that side and back and forth too often) , it's kinda fun for me to observe little incidents on streets which keep my humorous juice flowing steadily. So, in "Shor in the City", i will keep posting about bits and pieces of the kaleidoscope of my city Kolkata.

Scene 1 -

Lady In Dark

I saw it on Park Street on a busy afternoon. I was standing near Asiatic Society to cross the road. The signal has just turned red and i was about to step out on the zebra crossing- suddenly a little, red Maruti- almost out of nowhere- sped away in front of my nose ,breaking the signal and leaving me shrunk.(As usual there was no traffic police vicinity) Inside the car, an elderly lady was sitting behind the steering and (surprise surprise! for me) clad in a burkha..the veil was lifted (obviously). Now, i have never seen a burkha clad lady driver. Certainly , ladies in Iran or UAE may drive cars in burkha ( that's my guess) but on that day it seemed to me so amazingly comical. No doubt it's truly inspiring to see women from conservative background driving car n liberating themselves n all those blah blah blah kinda stuff but what struck me most is that while in her attire she followed the law of her religion loyally but in her action - she was not at all bothered to ignore the law of her country. Hilarious with a capital "H"..