Parody on e-biryani

e is small case bold font is a haunting syllable these days.There is no escape from this alphabet.As you drive along , you have the giant hoardings staring at you with e blown beyond proportions with all other letters paling into significance. Any written word or caption has the e part highlighted to garner attention, as though e is the destination and everything else is just the means.

Open any newspaper today and you are bound to encounter this many a time. Our business is going to be e business , our government is going to be e government and these governments want to be in the front ranks to offering e governance. e is becoming an integral part of our ‘smart life’.

The “ebsession” is a phenomenon in days to come that we need to live with for fear of being called anachronistic. Today , the merchants of words have come up with many catchy phrases , which sometimes are compressed into just single syllables.

Exceptional things are happening in this e driven world with values being redrawn. Young teach the old. A kid learns faster on computer than with a person who has accumulated years behind him. There is a new etiquette governing this new generation .

The word is becoming miniaturized with penchant for anything small . George Orwell’s newspeak is the guiding spirit and Shakespeare’s brevity is the soul of wit . With words reduced to syllables and sentences truncated , it is not just economy behind this drive but a virus spreading too fast.

Imitation is the art of life and it can happen in many ways . When once institution was re-engineering its academic departments into centres , more than the institute , the neighborhood went through a revolutionary transformation. A hair cut saloon came up with a sign board of centre for high-tech hair cut. In Hyderabad many establishments became high-tech overnight. At a time when the mankind was switching over to the new millenium and the entire computer world and government were going through shock waves about the y2k impact, a chicken shop appeared near a traffic point .There were several poor chicken hanging upside down in that shop gathering dust and smoke coming from the passing traffic. There was a glow sign of y2k chicken.The entire world came out of the gripping fever unscathed and heaved a sigh of relief , but ofcourse not our poor chicken.

The other day a man driving down from his office to home encountered a small dingy place with e-Biryani glow sign . He walked to the counter to enquire about the special features of this biryani. The counter clerk bemusingly informed that all the KOTs(Kitchen Order blah ….blah) are issued through the computer and hence e-Biryani. He was hardly impressed .He left in a huff saying “I love H-Biryani not your e-Biryani.”