Bidi = Wife / Cigarette = Mistress!!!
This goes out to all the bidi-lovers…
1) Bidi comes in a small homely shape while a cigarette comes in a long-white-leggy one..
2) Bidi is very cheap; cigarette is costly…it just takes to get properly addicted..
3) You may lend out cigarettes in public but not a bidi(maybe due to shame/inhibition to ur social status)…only dorks and drunkards do (see, I just saved you).
4) Bidi, as scientists say, is less harmful than the long white temptress.
5) Bidi is best enjoyed when u r at home, lonely…on the other hand u might smoke cigs right on the sidewalks(in Kolkata, that is).
6) And now, my favourite point: A Bidi is highly sentimental ( abhimaani, in bangla)..u gotta puff on it off n on..or else it’ll go off..whereas in the case of a cigarette, once u pay the money n light it, it just goes on n on..regardless of whether u r liking it or not…no sentiments involved..just pre-paid pleasure..
Yea..yea..there are too many rebuttals coming to ur mind now..that I just won’t consider…this post is dedicated to my lovely old companion and I won’t hear a word against her…so long u misbelievers…Armageddon is coming soon…Long live ‘neel -dori’…long live C.U. choto/tech canteen…all I care is for the colour of the string and not the decorative golden packs..