The Mumbaiyya Snack

Gheun takk

Long Long time ago in 1995 the cost of a single vada pav was 3rs and now in 2012 its 10 rs-12 rs depending on its hygienic quality (lol hygiene!! yah rite!!). Every six months the price of this snack rises by leaps and bounds. Some people use their undies more than that time frame (people who do must be smiling now). With prices rising everyday even Gandhiji’s picture on our currency will be crying very soon.

Nowadays the competition is not between the “Khan’s” it’s more between petrol and vada-pav. And the day is not far when even a vada-pav vendor will start accepting a credit card. That day eating our Mumbai’s favorite snack on Andheri stn made me realize that our lives are not so different than the vada-pav’s we eat. Like the kind of life the common man has is like the pav holding the vada. We come in tiles (as in Ek Ladi Pav) and are piled one above the other like always and the price rarely changes.

But this common pav tries very hard to hold it’s family, memories, experiences, friends, etc in the form of “vada” which has many things in it. Some succeed but some get torn trying to hold it together as long as they can. It’s not every day you find a place with that exact ingredients that made the perfect dish. So very much like us where we give our best to make it perfect for our world the “Vada” but fail sometimes due to reasons plenty. We give our best to cope it up by adding some chutney’s and fried mirchi’s to keep the blend close to perfect.

And our politicians come and take away a bite from it whenever they feel like it and we are the ones that have to deal with the consequences the most. The harder we try to hold, more of the pieces begin to fall and before you know; it’s an empty plate on your hands, like the role you were born for is over even without a mark in the world. But then again nature has always taught us to live life for others and not for our own, maybe that’s why there is Gandhi’s picture on our currency and not Vijay Mallya’s with two hot chicks in two piece on each side.

But what’s life without a little surprise so don’t be afraid to add a mirchi to your life.

EAT EAT EAT EAT EAT!!!!

Till next time Adios suckers!!!!!