I was sitting in the road side hotel.It was almost 8.30 a.m to 9.00 a.m. It was the office time for all who believes in salary and sustenance livelihood. Kolkata is a very busy city and every person in the city is struggling for food, shelter, well being, belonging and existence in the earth. Kolkata is also a city where all sorts of people are living those having different types of need. It is also an unique city fulfilling every bodies need. Really I like Kolkata. I am enjoying the life of Kolkata. Really it's a city of Joy.
It was the Jadavpur Thana more. There was red signal for the route coming from Ganguly Pokur residential area ie By-Pass road. An old age women aging between 45 to 50. She was in Saree (Polester Saree). There is a small polythene bag with her, holded in the hand. It was raining and all the passengers are erratic due to continuous rain fall. There is no place for shelter. She is in road and her dresses are wet. Water drops are dropping from her cloths. There are no other dresses with her at that moment. She came forward to the hotel and asked for meal. She told that last night I had not taken meal. The lady Manager of hotel answered please wait and stand under the roof, why you are standing in the rain, you have another dress. In the mean time all the motor stopped due to red signal. There was blue “ALTO” car standing in the road due to red signal. She went near to the Car and started to beg. Glasses were closed there may be as it was raining or it was an AC (Air Conditioned car) or both. When she approached to the Car all the four people in Car moved their head to opposite side. There is no Scope to get any thing. Then she approached to next Car it was red “SCORPIO”, it was the same experience to first client. When She Moved to third in the mean time signal turns green and the entire stopped vehicle started to run on the road. She became alone in the road. She had failed to collect money from Car owner or the person who can afford to travel in the Car.
She once again turns towards the hotel. Lady hotel manager told to her son please give her Rice. She had collected the rice in Plastic paper and went towards road side to eat. She was eating and two to three dogs were also observing that lady. She was eating as fast as she can finish first. It was really very charming just comparing the food style in the restaurant of rich person and the poor taking food in the road side.
In the mean time other person age probably 18 to 22 years. He wore only T shirts and no paint. He just stood in the front of the Hotel. The hotel boy soughted “ Ja, Jaa, Jaaa, Jaaa……Boy went to other hotel and just standing near to “chulha”, where an lady is cooking food for the passengers. At the mean time that poor lady manager of the hotel where I was sitting she told “all are soughting on him, how he will get food. Who will support him? In the mean time boy got two roti and cooked vegetable from the other hotel where lady cook was cooking meal.
In both the cases food has been provided by lady and poor people those are doing their business in the road side. They are the same case if they will be thrown away from the roadside to do business. There was sentiment, emotion, charity, love, and care among poor to poor. Beggars in the Kolkata are surviving only due to the mercy of the next poor man not by the GOD.
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