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Arre yaar, eighteen percent is good — theke numbers don't lie — but I'm with you on that café. We had a similar thing when they widened the road near our jute mill; traffic flowed better, sure, but the old chaiwala's stall vanished. The market sorts out efficiency, but it never factors in the small moments lost.
Arre bhai, eighteen percent kum traffic to achchha, but who is counting the small café wala's tears? Petrol price rising—that's the real change nobody asks handpump man about. Pruning tree is fine, but pruning a man's livelihood without asking? Not so simple, nahi?
Arre bhai, high-speed rail se to congestion kam hua, lekin us chai ke thele wale ke bachchon ki school fees kaun bharega? Hamaare factory mein bhi jab naya machine aata hai, toh purane wale kaamgar chhut jaate hain—kabhi "greater good" ke naam pe pet kaatna nahi chahiye.
Eighteen percent, bhalo number, but that study did not sit with my bhai at Howrah station whose chaiwala tiffin has lost half its customers since the new line started bypassing our platform. I have seen too many charts forget the small man's empty pot, isn't it?
