Well well well... this is a quote overheard in Kanpur and the main reason for starting this blog. Also, there is a story behind this quote... A man visited Kanpur in wake of finding a fact that the city is amazing and one may counter things never thought or heard before in Kanpur. The man keeps a guide and asks him to show him the city. The guide takes him to the historical places and all but the visitor didn't find them interesting enough. The visitor is in search of some more VERY INTERESTING stuff.Driven by this quest of the visitor, the guide takes him to a kabootarbaaz (one who has pigeons as pets and earns his livelihood through them) who shows an amazing pigeon to the visitor which was capable of flying only with one wing. The visitor is amazed this time. He tries himself and at many a locations but to his surprise, the pigeon would fly only with one wing. Now, the man wants to buy this pigeon. Two lakhs, the kabootarbaaz replies - not more for a pigeon which can fly with one wing.
Convinced, the man pays two lakhs to the kabootarbaaz and takes the pigeon back to his city. To his surprise, the pigeon flies with two wings elsewhere. The man tries and tries and tries but no success. Failing, he visits the kabootarbaaz again and asks for a 2 lakhs refund because the pigeon flies with two wings now. As the kabootarbaaz takes the pigeon back and instructs it to fly, to the visitor's surprise, the pigeon flies with one wing. The kabootarbaaz asks the man to try himself and the pigeon flies with one wing.
The visitor asks the reason from the kabootarbaaz, who says, "Saab, ye Kanpur hai. Yahan par to kabootar bhi bacha kar chalte hain." (Sir, this is Kanpur. Even the pigeons safeguard their asses while going out.)
