Thursday 1 October 2009

Of Bamboo Curtains and Shining Bottoms

Much nonsensical ramblings are going on about sprucing up Delhi's image during the period of the Commonwealth Games. This ranges from rounding up all the beggars using mobile courts, sending them all to nearby Haryana, teaching Delhiites politeness and manners etc. etc.

Laughable but understandable to some extend. But not this,

Delhi will use bamboo screens to keep poverty out of the public gaze: “We thought of putting up cloth, vinyl or even natural screens like bushes in front of slums. Then we thought, why not bamboo?” says Rakesh Mehta, chief secretary, Delhi. As of now, authorities are sourcing the lathi bamboo from Rajasthan, but talks are also on with the Mizoram and Assam governments. “We are enlisting the help of National Mission on Bamboo Technology and Trade Development in order to find out whether the varieties from Mizoram would be able to survive in Delhi’s climate or not,” says KK Sharma, principal secretary, PWD Delhi.
WTF - Hiding poverty behind 'Bamboo Curtain'!!!!!!
It is like middle aged women hiding their facial wrinkles behind an inch of pancake! You know how ghastly they look when they do that.
I have a brilliant idea. Give each slum dweller a 2 ft by 2 ft hard board that can be used to cover their shining bottoms when they squat beside the Railway lines and road side. But this might result in the Sunglasses manufacturers like Rayban crying foul as they expect the foreigners who come for the Games to buy Glasses in dozens to protect them from the glares of what Jawaharlal Nehru once famously said "Shining Bottoms".
Much fun. Watch this space as we near the Commonwealth Games

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