Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Poor Dirty Cheap Men

"Aage aloor dam nau taka chilo. Ekhon baish taka. Sara din khete eksho taka moto jogar kori. Apni bolun ki kore cholbe. Khete to hobe naa ki. Ekhon jodi aloor dam aeto badiyedai aamra ki korbo bolun. Chap er dam 4 taka kortei hoyeche dada. Naale mushkil hoye jache. Aasho le ki bolun to. Ei bam front ke vote diye kono labh nei. Amito vote agger badh Momota ke diyechi ar ei badh o debo. Apni dekhechin Nondigramme aar Lalgarhe ki kore rekheche....||he goes on, I refute, he answers back||",the owner of a roadside tea shop when I asked him why the price of his aloo chops suddenly increased.
In her words the roadside tea shop was a dirty place to be in, with cheap people eating cheap food. A place where "I definitely don't want to end up".A place where "I'm not going to go there, its too dirty and cheap."

'Rich' man's class. Business Communication class. Question is asked.
"Does anybody know what propaganda is?"
||Still and silent||
"Ok....how many of you watch the news everyday?"
||A few hands go up||
"Just because your parents have the remote?"
||Some giggling||
"How many of you read a newspaper everyday?"
||Fewer hands go up||
"Okay? How many of you watch more than one news channel a day?"
||More hands than the last time||
"So, can you notice the difference between how the same news on different channels are presented?"
||Everyone looks around||

I like poor dirty cheap men.