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But there is a danger of becoming like Bal Thackeray, where you keep making provocative statements for the sake of being so, endlessly since you launched the Shiv Sena in 1966. Quite tedious after all these years. So not like that. Some other kind of provocative, perhaps.
Like our city fathers? Every day they promise us unlimited water, but only if we endure a 50 per cent water cut for one week, then the next week it's 100 per cent, then two weeks later it's 20 per cent and the result is that we have constant water cuts with simultaneous promises of endless water.
I am not a conspiracy theorist who thinks aliens control the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, but even I can see through this one. These are just regular water cuts with some hope-building exercises thrown in. By the time the Middle Vaitarna project is completed, together with Brimstowad, Mumbai Urban Transport Plans I to MMVI, all the plans under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, I will be long dead and your grandchildren will, if they are lucky, be living on some other planet.
If unlucky, they will be hanging on the outside of the 9.15 Icchalkaranji Fast to Churchgate with 20 per cent water cuts all over the city and the government promising that by the time the Arabian Sea has been desalinated, Mumbai will have a 24-hour water supply.
Top provocative award of the week: All reality shows on TV, especially my favourite, The Biscuit Bonanza Dance Till You Cry For the Indian Dance Champ Award of At Least 600 24 News Channels.
If you have not seen this, it's where everyone dances, then everyone cries, especially those who have won and those who have lost, then they go to other dance shows and cry more and the finale is on the primetime newscast of a 24-hour news channel where everyone cries even more.
By this time, I have done with two boxes of tissues and have contemplated jumping off my balcony; only I can't, because of the damn grills.
b_ranjona@dnaindia.net