NEGATIVITY.

The vada pav seller in our locality does brisk business round the year, come rain or shine! All the classes of people are seen munching the delicious item with dollops of sour chutney and a juicy chilly. Cars, scooters and cycles are seen hovering around this stall, all the time. People envied the rich vada pav seller, wondered about his penchant for using the finest spices and the farm fresh potatoes. I am a very keen observer and noticed that the entire stall was resting on the tiles of the covered municipality gutter where the netherworld creatures and the repelling insects lurked around, multiplying their creed numbers in all their glory. Rats as huge as cats were rumoured to hang around the sewer. Cockroaches of all sizes and shapes lived with the teeming bugs. This stall had the best take home statistics in the whole town. The seller used to wear a thick gold chain around his neck to match his golden coloured swanky car.He used to feed his left overs to the poor sewage workers and they in turn would feed their leftovers to the omnivorous inhabitants of the sewer.

A celebration was going on in the house of our neighbours,a baby boy had arrived in their world and their joy knew no bounds. The dholaks were being played along with the cymbals to make the crowd dance. The eunuchs were just letting their hair down and joined the melee, Their outrageous lipsticks and the heavily made up faces were a sight to behold. It was a custom to call these unfortunate ones to bless their new child. No ceremonial proceedings were complete without the participation of the eunuch gang. Their blessings were of paramount importance in every household in our town. Eunuchs would never have children of their own in their entire sad lives.The dancing eunuchs earned their livelihood, but most of them now,were resorting to flesh trade to make their ends meet and to satisfy the perverted people in our town.

A major residential township was emerging in our town, it would include a mall, school and a theatre too. On the inauguration day, When the first stone was being laid, a fistful of soil was mixed with the cement. It was carried in a small plastic bag by the builder. It was from a brothel where the diseased soiled women used to ply their trade, much to their discomfiture, each one wishing a new lease of life.This soil was very auspicious and was the essential ingredient in all foundations of our town. No builder risked missing this vital act.

The sewer, eunuchs and the brothel all signify negativism. These deprived creatures and people are all suffering through out their lives. Yet, they impart immunity from all disasters to the blessed people.

Their negativity protects us.

They absorb all the negative energies upon themselves to keep us safe and sound. Their acts make us prosper. Their negativity balances our positivity. I wonder, why their blessings do not work on themselves and extricate them from their misery.

It is indeed a strange contrasting world.