Growing up in Bombay, I used to enjoy the Busybee column in the daily Evening News. Behram Contractor was equivalent to today's American Jerry Seinfeld. He wrote about mundane things in Bombay and yet each day's column was quite absorbing.
There was another columnist or writer who wrote a column called "Only in Bharat". It was about such outlandlish actual events which were nevertheless true, that the author thought it could happen only in India. Not to be taken too seriously since such things happen all over the world, it was a parody of life in that era. This reward to Bablu as reported by Uday Barad would be a fitting contribution to such a column. Here is the Central Railway announcer made famous for his heroic act, who under great danger to himself warned people in the entire station of the two terrorists. He warns another announcer who then promptly gets 10 lakh rupees from the Railway Minister while he himself has to make an application to get his bravery recognized for which he gets 500 rupees from a lowly divisional manager. I am inspired to start "Only in Bharat" on Goanet. Readers are welcome to send their contributions by email to me. I shall quite willingly give them credit for their contribution. They are also welcome to post them direct to Goanet. Roland. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Dr. U. G. Barad <[email protected]> wrote: > While those who got accidentally killed were made into heroes, the real > heroes are forgotten. > > Read more by clicking the link provided here below: > > http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/may/26/-mumterror-forgotten-nov-26-hero-g > ets-only-rs-500-as-award.htm > > Best regards, > > Dr. U. G. Barad
