PARSI COLONIES NEVER SLEEP:- Bawas can & will always laugh at themselves! After the British colonies, it is the Parsi colonies that are left behind, on which the sun never sets! Because at 2 am old ladies are chasing stray dogs with sticks at 3 am somebodys TV is loud enough to keep the watchmen awake, at 4 am the granny has woken up to pee, & flushes loud enough for all neighborhood to announce where she was, at 5 am the doodhwala comes from parsi dairy farm, at 6 am somebody takes 46 kicks to start his lambratta vaahloo scooter, at 7 am the 3rd floor neighbor goes “pichhe ka side ko barabar se dhona, main roj dekhta hoon, tum aisa hi kapda mar ke nikal jata hai” ....to the ‘gari dhowa-walo’, at 8 am u hear a frantic mother shouting mehernosh tu bhona no dabbo bhuligayo running in a nightie down the ‘main street’ of the “baug”, at 9 am someone starts playing chhaiye hame zartosti at top volume, at 10 am the ladies are clapping from balconies to call the ‘taja pamplet kolmi walo’, at 11 am the jobless, wifeless, TVless & hopeless haandas of the colony come down with m-c/b-c gaars, calling each other by their ‘pet names’, such as “eh legaa, eh chaddi, eh pittal’ to play cricket or volleyball at 12 noon they break a glass of somebody’s window, at 1 pm the fight is still on, at 2 pm the fight ends when the aromas from other peoples kitchens reminds them that stomach is mightier than the gaar, at 3 pm the school kids are returning in a shrill argument over what happened in class, at 4 pm the old men’s club comes down for a walk & ask the silly obvious questions like bajaar laine aavi? office thi aavi?, college thi aavi? to all the women of the colony returning fm anywhere, at 5 pm the old women’s parade starts, where the aunties want to walk, but the gangubais escorting them want to sit, at 6 pm after finishing their homework, the ‘chillar’ comes down to play (that’s what they used to call kids below 12 when w used to go down, at 7 pm the hero of the parsi colony the pavwala arrives with ‘karak & naram’ options for all the ladies, at 8 pm some aspiring young stunt-bawa is practicing stunts with his bike & melodramatic teenage girls squealing oohs & aahs louder than required, at 9 pm u can hear people of all age groups saying bye to each other which lasts for an entire hour, at 10 pm someone gets enough bones only for 1stray dog, so the other dogs create a havoc, at 11 pm someone’s grandfather clock gongs out loud eleven times & by the time it stops u hve missed hearing the last part of ur favorite TV serial, at 12 midnight the watchman has to show he is working, & so goes banging the stick to wake u up fm ur deep slumber, at 1 am some guys play loud music in a car, but this time the guy on the 2nd floor wakes up, fights with the youngsters & threatens to call the police, & u end up peeping fm the window to see the commotion, when finally the commotion ends, the old lady who is hard of hearing thinks it is the stray dogs barking again & at 2 am comes out with a stick to chase them… ....See..... the sun never sets on the Parsi Colony Empires!!! Long live PARSI Colonies!!! (Thanx to inputs given by bawis from Parsi Colonies:- Roshni Bharda, Kamal Pavri, Anahita Irani, Gulrukh Dolasha, Faranaaz Karbhari, Ashish Gandhi, Ruby Bharucha, Parizad Burzin Diventri, Zinobia Jalgamwalla, Mohnaz Pastakia,)
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:47:16 +0000