This Blog was written in facebook when I was in Kolkata Customs…
What did I learn after spending so many months in Kolkata?
IS IT….
There are more fish varieties in Bengal markets than in Bay of Bengal?
SC Bose alone got us freedom?
Ganguly is the only cricketer during his era and sachin, dravid used to be water carriers then?
Bengal is the sweet capital of India?
No.. I learnt in how many ways my stomach can be infected!!?
My stomach has been inhibited by variety of viruses and bacterias and they live in colonies. Now they have started their unions as well. My stomach problems continue like Hanuman’s tail. For the last week or so, It again adopted the strike culture of Bengal and refused to work like Govt employees. The strike was followed by slogans and sounds. Heavy riot followed. I can’t digest this any more!
Advices started to pour in from all ten directions?!! Top and bottom directions included. Eat banana, bread, drink black tea, do regular exercise, do yoga and take homeopathy medicines. I liked the first 3 only as it involved eating. My family doctor gave me a list of medicines. When I asked him “Is it before or after the meals? He scornfully looked at me and said “for meals”.
Well nowadays I purchase medicines like groceries. Some pharmacists treat me like their new competitor who is going to open a shop, some give me royal treatment. They give me ‘festival offer’, special discounts and compliments. Nowadays whenever a new medicine comes including gynaecology tablets, they inform me.
I could withstand all ‘pressures’ except seeing my peers slurping 3 course meals with 4 course non-veg items. In Haldia we have our mess and they serve non-veg, 3 times a day. Daily we eat a fish variety excluding blue whale and penguin. Haldia market is small one. So we don’t get them here. Ever since I told my friends that I should not take non-veg, their appetite seems to have grown manifold. They indulge in fingerlicking monoactings in front of me to augur my agony. I had to change my meal timings.
Will any Indian invent a stomach with less tubes for “stomach transplantation” please. Do you think, we can’t? Though Phone and sim were invented by others, We are the ones who invented ‘Missed Call’. Isn’t it? We can. smile emoticon