Writing after long time, just outta touch. Not that stuffs don't keep happening around, world is full of stuffs to write about ... may be a bit lazy. Hope to be a bit more frequent now.
India, when western world talks about it, they have this in mind that it is filled with poor and hungry people, also people with turban on head making snakes jumping out of basket. Duh even the oscar one, Slumdog Millionaire showed similar India. Come on, India has more than that.
But yes when you are driving down the city roads and get stuck at a signal,then you realise yes its quite true. Beggars and eunuchs ready to charge on the cars with their tactics. Honestly few do need help, but most can do some type of work only if they want to, but why work hard when you are getting more by begging. At times if you tell them you can't give them as you don't have change, they would ask how much do you want? Rs500 or Rs1,000. Though this statement isn't valid at this moment as Rs1,000 have been banned, ahh guess having a long makeover.
So coming back to the topic, recently some stuffs happened in life which made me deal with beggars, like need to feed them and blah blah. In my city you will find lots of beggars, but I never knew this side of story. I always thought them to be awww poor guys but I was proved wrong. Recently mom asked me to get few beggars as she wanted to give lunch at home. I was instructed to get 11 blokes. Nearby there is a place where loads of poor people sit and beg. I knew the place and I thought it is a piece of cake. There I went thinking just eleven, Damn how would I choose amongst so many? But this thought didn't remain the exact same when I reached there.
As I reached there I saw loads of people sitting, males, females and also kids. They all looked at me as if I am some spy or agent, where I was thinking I might be the Santa for them, yeah but slimmer version. Amongst them, a mid aged guy came up, who looked perfectly fine, just clothes were bit messy but yeah thats in style ,isn't it ? I did tell him that I need eleven of you as want to serve you lunch at my place. What do you expect in reply? When, at what time? or Can it be increased a bit more? or may be a bit bright happy face, not a grin or something? Wrong , it was Whats in the menu? I was like whaaaaat? These guys needs to know menus before they go ? I guess he understood from my expression, he clarified that they won't go if its Biryani, as they keep getting here. So if something else is there, they will come. Thank God we had proper homemade lunch, I told him no its regular food, simple and plain. Then they were like okay you tell me the place, we would be there in half an hour, I did give him the details and came back.
Later I came to know from one of my cousins about more of such stuffs, like there are people who wants to feed the poor, so they give simple stuffs like veggies and rice, but these fellas also wants non veg along. Wow. There are people who are not able to prepare food for so many people at home, which is very logical and they prefer taking them to local small food stall or hotel and allow them to have whatever they wish. Sounds nice and simple? what possibly can go wrong? You have choices, No biryani.. also you have non veg too. Perfect right??? Wrong again folks, its the damn hotel, they will only have from hotels which they like, obviously not fancy hotel, local but it has to be their choice. They don't like food from all the hotels. Yeah I knew some drama about them like they won't accept one or two rupee coins, may be 5 bucks or 10. We spent schools days with that amount on money.Now I feel I am more down to earth than them ! ;)
