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Jamshedpur, April 23: The bane of banning addictive essentials has come as a bolt from the one and only Nitin Madan Kulkarni who is otherwise very much concerned about the health of human and similar looking objects with notorious life traits. We are talking about such forms found in Jharkhand in general and Jamshedpur in particular.
It is always better to praise the authorities by listing all the good things of life that have been banned for the lockdown period. Fags, bidis, gutkha pouches, khaini, zarda, snuff, putrid air and other allied compulsive pastime fodder. Even the pleasure of spitting on walls and streets have been prohibited not to speak of enjoying the multi hued joy of spit-painiting on office walls that have been the unofficial emblems of government offices and undertakings. What a shame, Nitinji! For the addicts, I mean.
Thinking about the health of unhealthy human bovines who love making cud and spitting them out in already non-sanitized spots is a sport for uniformed spotters who now have the additional responsibility of looking out for such obnoxious mammal forms besides manning the vital check points to prevent other two-legged caricatures from turning voluntary virus donors.
But in spite of all good intents the trend of the new set of bans will meet the same fate as has happened and continues to prevail in emergency times like these — blackmarketing and activated network of spurious similarities from least expected outlets. The sale of daru bottals from grocery shops is a minor case in point.
The curtailment of inhuman rights will be further accentuated for vehicle users with the new curbs in place. Police personnel will now sniff for licenses, ownership books, insurance papers, vehicular fart clearance certificates, guthka pouches, chunautis, bananas, booze bottles and other items of regular use and Satan have mercy on the lot if any irregularity is observed in the khaki dig operations. The guys should know that the police have the uncanny sense of sniffing up the right trees.
Regulation implementation authorities should know that there are multiple law breaking rules for every rule. For instance, there is a ban on sale of liquor; but are the gentlemen who are habitual contributors to the excise coffers not contributing to the undercover dealers of spurious or contraband life-potents at double prices or more? The availability of other essentials under the latest ban will remain to grow and prosper as die-hard addicts will vehemently look out for underground routes overground to their individual or collective destinations of unhealthy joy where supplies will be more abundant than in normal times. To hell with quality and that humbug, “Injurious to health — Not for sale to minors.”
Though not the grand finale to this mentally deranged’s diary, a moot but unnecessary point that comes to immediate mind is, what about peeing in public places where Sulabhs are not available? Or, for that matter, for people who are ritualistically inclined to perform their dawn, morning, afternoon, evening and nocturnal ablutions in natural environs? At least, one hopes, people’s rights to these traditional practices are not locked down during this viral period. Certain civic rules, like most, are made to be broken under fancied circumstances.
