My morning walk is my 'me time' - footloose - I wander where I feel like. Chanting my prayers. Looking at the day as it begins in its many facets.
Some mornings I really see a group of women arrive with long handled brooms and packets of chips and other stuff. They sit by the roadside, finish their snacks and throw the wrappers down. With handkerchiefs over their mouths By the time, I return, they have done a pretty good job and left. But they are soon replaced by more walkers who create work for them - throwing food for stray dogs, munching on something and discarding the wrapper and undoing the work of the cleaning women.
Some mornings I also see that an unseen demolition squad has been at work - pulling down encroachments on the footpath. The mangled remains of steel and boulders of concrete remain the only reminders of the edifices ( I fine myself thinking of Ozymandias - Nothing beside remains !) .
But just for a little while.
Soon, new structures come up in the same space.
Curious, I asked the milkman who has a store that is part of the encroachment about the break/build cycle. His reply was classic :
Yes - the govt/municipality come and break our structures. That is their job. And then we rebuild - that is our right !
Stunned I asked him about respecting the law - his question, what law ? It is a question of our right and their duty :)
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